Senior Production Software Engineer (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

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