Production Software Engineer - Senior/Staff/Principal

Optiver; Sydney; On-site; AUD 180,000 - 280,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Best-in-class professionals

Competitive remuneration

Additional leave entitlements

Training and development opportunities

Gym membership

Daily breakfast

In-house barista

Regular social events

Job summary

Optiver is hiring a senior/staff/principal Production Software Engineer to join our Sydney team. The Production Software Engineering team handles infrastructure, systems, tooling and workflows enabling engineers to deploy, operate and observe trading systems.

You will influence change across business sectors, focusing on robustness and fast, safe innovation cycles. You will work on end-to-end ownership of changes, from requirements and architecture to deployment and monitoring, collaborating

Qualifications

• Extensive experience in software engineering, particularly designing and delivering systems at scale.
• Deep knowledge of software systems, operating environments, and how distributed applications run in production.
• A strong improvement mindset, with the ability to simplify complex systems and reduce operational friction.

Responsibilities

• Own changes end-to-end, from understanding the business problem to design, implementation, testing, deployment and monitoring.
• Collaborate with team to support delivery in architecture or implementation as needed.

Skills

Software engineering

Distributed systems

Operations mindset

Automation

Tools

Python

CI/CD

Configuration management

Web frameworks

Job description

Production Software Engineer - Senior/Staff/Principal

Optiver is a global market maker founded in Amsterdam, with offices in London, Chicago, Austin, New York, Sydney, Shanghai, Hong Kong, Singapore, Taipei and Mumbai. Established in 1986, today we are a leading liquidity provider, with close to 2,000 employees in offices around the world, united in our commitment to improve the market through competitive pricing, execution and risk management. By providing liquidity on multiple exchanges across the world in various financial instruments we participate in the safeguarding of healthy and efficient markets. We provide liquidity to financial markets using our own capital, at our own risk, trading a wide range of products: listed derivatives, cash equities, ETFs, bonds and foreign currencies.

Optiver’s Sydney office is one of the primary players within Asian markets, trading a range of products. Established in 1996, we're an active participant on the Hong Kong, Korea, Singapore, Taiwan and Japan exchanges, and act as Optiver’s APAC head office.

Who We Are

Optiver is a global market maker founded in Amsterdam, with offices in London, Chicago, Austin, New York, Sydney, Shanghai, Hong Kong, Singapore, Taipei and Mumbai. Established in 1986, today we are a leading liquidity provider, with close to 2,000 employees in offices around the world, united in our commitment to improve the market through competitive pricing, execution and risk management. By providing liquidity on multiple exchanges across the world in various financial instruments we participate in the safeguarding of healthy and efficient markets. We provide liquidity to financial markets using our own capital, at our own risk, trading a wide range of products: listed derivatives, cash equities, ETFs, bonds and foreign currencies.

Optiver’s Sydney office is one of the primary players within Asian markets, trading a range of products. Established in 1996, we're an active participant on the Hong Kong, Korea, Singapore, Taiwan and Japan exchanges, and act as Optiver’s APAC head office.

What You’ll Do

We're seeking a senior/staff/principal level engineer to join our Sydney team. The Production Software Engineering team is responsible for all infrastructure, systems, tooling and workflows that enable our engineers to deploy, operate and observe our vast network of highly specialised and performance-sensitive trading systems. This team occupies a wide intersection of stakeholders across the business from operations to development, specifically focusing on scaling up change, increasing robustness, and reducing friction. Your contributions have the potential to directly enable a faster and safer innovation cycle for Optiver.

• Our Production engineers develop solutions using a mix of third party and in-house technologies, owning their changes end-to-end, including understanding the business problem, design, implementation, testing, deployment and monitoring. You will work closely with your team to support them on delivery where you see fit, such as requirements, architecture or implementation.

Who You Are

• You’re a systems-minded engineer who thrives at the intersection of software, infrastructure, and operations. You’re passionate about enabling fast, safe change — and understand the value of clear standards, scalable workflows, and high-trust automation in a production context. You must have:
• Extensive experience in software engineering, particularly designing and delivering systems at scale
• Deep knowledge of software systems, operating environments, and how distributed applications run in production
• A strong improvement mindset, with the ability to simplify complex systems and reduce operational friction

Beneficial, though not required:

• Proficiency in Python
• Familiarity with CI/CD pipelines, configuration management tools, and modern web frameworks
• Experience working in trading or other high-performance, low-latency environments

What You’ll Get

You’ll join a culture of collaboration and excellence, where you’ll be surrounded by curious thinkers and creative problem solvers. Driven by a passion for continuous improvement, you’ll thrive in a supportive, high-performing environment alongside talented colleagues, working collectively to tackle some of the most complex problems in the financial markets.

In return for your expertise, you will be offered a competitive salary package as well as access to a range of Optiver perks, including:

• The chance to work alongside best‑in‑class professionals
• Competitive remuneration and additional leave entitlements
• Training, mentorship and personal development opportunities
• Gym membership plus weekly in‑house chair massages
• Daily breakfast, lunch and an in‑house barista
• Regular social events including a company trip every two years

Optiver is committed to

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