Production Software Engineer - Senior/Staff/Principal

Optiverus; Sydney; On-site; AUD 180,000 - 240,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive remuneration

Additional leave entitlements

Gym membership

Weekly chair massages

In-house barista

Daily meals

Company social events

Job summary

Optiver in Sydney is seeking a senior/staff/principal level Production Software Engineer. You will work on infrastructure, tooling, and workflows enabling deployment, operation and observation of a high-performance trading network.

You will own end-to-end changes, collaborate across operations and development, and focus on scalability, robustness, and reduced operational friction in production systems.

Qualifications

• Extensive experience in software engineering, designing and delivering scalable systems.
• Strong knowledge of operating environments and how distributed applications run in production.
• Proactive mindset to simplify complex architectures and reduce operational friction.

Responsibilities

• Own end-to-end delivery of changes in production environments, from problem understanding to deployment and monitoring.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to improve robustness and accelerate safe innovation.
• Contribute to architecture decisions and design reviews to scale the trading infrastructure.

Skills

Software engineering

Distributed systems

High performance systems

Automation

Python

Tools

CI/CD pipelines

Job description

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.

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.

• 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.

• 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 diversity and inclusion , and it is hardwired through every stage of our hiring process. We encourage applications from candidates from any and all backgrounds, and we welcome requests for reasonable adjustments during the process to ensure that you can best demonstrate your abilities.

Questions? Get in touch with the recruitment team at [e-mail].

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