Senior Production Software Engineer
OptiverAbout the Role
Optiver is seeking an experienced Production Software Engineer to build infrastructure and automate the trading production environment. This role sits at the intersection of operations, development, and infrastructure, focusing on scaling change, increasing robustness, and reducing operational overhead.
- Design and build deployment pipelines for production changes, from validation through rollout and verification
- Build and maintain production environment monitoring infrastructure for incident detection and alerting
- Develop tooling and automation to reduce operational friction and increase reliability
- Collaborate with stakeholders across operations, development, and infrastructure teams
- Mentor junior team members and foster engineer growth
- Own production sub-systems end-to-end, from understanding business problems through design, implementation, testing, deployment, and monitoring
Requirements
- Bachelor's degree in CS or related technical field
- Strong programming ability (Python at a minimum; Golang/Rust would be beneficial) and software engineering principles.
- Broad understanding of the full technology stack including server hardware, networking, Linux, databases, web servers and applications
- Experience with CI/CD tooling to assist with production change pipelines
- Experience with metrics and observability platforms
- Experience with technologies such as Ansible, Django, FastAPI, Flask, Jenkins, Hashicorp Vault, Docker/Podman and Kubernetes would be beneficial
- Previous experience in production management would be beneficial
- Ability to bring an improvement mindset and critical eye to complex operational challenges (including security) and systems
What You'll Get
- $200k base salary
- The opportunity to work alongside best-in-class professionals from over 40 different countries
- 401(k) match up to 50%
- Comprehensive health, mental, dental, vision, disability, and life coverage
- 25 paid vacation days alongside market holidays
- Extensive office perks, including breakfast, lunch and snacks, regular social events, clubs, sporting leagues and more