Senior Trading Risk & Market Surveillance Specialist

Bybit Limited; Abu Dhabi; On-site; AED 661,000 - 1,175,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Growth Fund

Internal Events

Global Collaboration

Career Advancement

Internal Mobility

Job summary

Bybit Limited in Abu Dhabi is seeking a Senior Risk & Surveillance professional to develop and enhance monitoring across spot, futures, and options. You will work with product, compliance, and data teams to build robust detection rules and risk controls, leveraging SQL and Python to analyze order-flow and behavior patterns.

The role requires hands-on experience in derivatives risk management, strong analytical skills, and familiarity with market-abuse regulations.

Qualifications

• Experience in trading risk management for derivatives.
• Strong SQL skills and Python experience desirable.
• Ability to design and validate detection approaches using trade data.
• Analytical mindset with ability to translate risk concepts into detection logic.
• Experience with order-flow analysis and market surveillance.
• Familiarity with market abuse regulations and compliance.

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

Derivatives trading risk

Market surveillance

Risk analysis

SQL

Python

Tools

SQL

Python

Graph analytics

Entity resolution

Job description

Bybit Limited in Abu Dhabi is seeking a Senior Risk & Surveillance professional to develop and enhance monitoring across spot, futures, and options. You will work with product, compliance, and data teams to build robust detection rules and risk controls, leveraging SQL and Python to analyze order-flow and behavior patterns.

The role requires hands-on experience in derivatives risk management, strong analytical skills, and familiarity with market-abuse regulations.