Senior Trading Risk & Market Surveillance Lead

Wwshemi; Abu Dhabi; On-site; AED 300,000 - 540,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Growth Fund

Internal Events

Global Collaboration

Career Advancement

Internal Mobility

Job summary

Bybit is seeking a Senior Risk Analyst to develop and refine risk and surveillance systems for crypto trading across spot, futures and options. You will investigate suspicious activity using order-flow and account-linkage signals, define patterns for new manipulation methods, and assess risk impact for leadership reporting.

The role requires strong SQL, knowledge of derivatives, and collaboration with Product and Compliance to deploy monitoring rules.

Qualifications

• Practical experience trading or managing risk in derivatives.
• Strong knowledge of futures, perpetual swaps, and options.
• Understanding leverage, margin, liquidation, insurance-fund structures, and auto-deleveraging.
• Experience in trading-risk management or market-abuse prevention (spoofing, wash trading, front-running, or privileged information misuse).
• Strong analytical ability; advanced SQL is essential, and Python is highly desirable.
• Ability to independently create and validate detection approaches using order- and trade-level data.

Responsibilities

• Develop and continuously improve risk and surveillance strategies for identifying abusive or manipulative activity across spot, perpetual futures, options, and related trading products.
• Investigate potentially coordinated or suspicious trading activity using order-flow analysis, self-trading and crossing behaviours, order-book signals, and account-linkage indicators.
• Define behavioural patterns for new or evolving manipulation methods, particularly in thinly traded assets, leveraged instruments, and liquidation-driven market events.
• Assess the impact of identified risks, including possible market disruption, financial exposure, and concentration of risk, to inform prioritisation and leadership reporting.
• Partner with Product, Compliance, and other relevant teams to design, test, and implement appropriate monitoring rules and risk controls.
• Collaborate with data scientists and analysts to translate trading-risk concepts into effective detection logic, models, and monitoring workflows.

Skills

SQL

Python

Derivatives trading

Risk management

Market surveillance

Analytical thinking

Tools

Graph analysis

Entity resolution

Job description

Bybit is seeking a Senior Risk Analyst to develop and refine risk and surveillance systems for crypto trading across spot, futures and options. You will investigate suspicious activity using order-flow and account-linkage signals, define patterns for new manipulation methods, and assess risk impact for leadership reporting.

The role requires strong SQL, knowledge of derivatives, and collaboration with Product and Compliance to deploy monitoring rules.