Systematic Trading Production Engineer

Selby Jennings; Greater London; On-site; GBP 100,000 - 150,000; Full time

Job summary

Selby Jennings is seeking a Production Engineer to provide hands‑on support for a mission‑critical, low‑latency trading platform in London. You will ensure platform stability and rapid incident response, supporting front‑office trading teams in live markets.

You will drive observability, automation, and runbooks, collaborating with software engineering and infrastructure teams to improve reliability and resilience across global trading systems.

Qualifications

• Strong background in production engineering, SRE, or application support within real‑time or trading environments.
• Experience handling business‑critical production systems with urgency and ownership.
• Strong monitoring, observability, alerting, incident management, and RCA skills.

Responsibilities

• Provide production support for a high‑performance, low‑latency trading platform in a live trading environment.
• Monitor system health, trading workflows, and platform behavior to ensure reliability and rapid issue detection.
• Respond to production incidents, drive triage and resolution, and coordinate across trading, development, and infrastructure teams.
• Support front‑office users by investigating trading issues, answering workflow questions, and helping resolve time‑sensitive production problems.
• Own and improve monitoring, alerting, telemetry, and dashboards across the trading platform.
• Develop and enhance automation, runbooks, and operational tools to improve supportability and reduce operational risk.

Skills

Production engineering

SRE

Real-time trading systems

Linux

Monitoring & observability

Incident management

Automation

Tools

Linux

Prometheus

Grafana

Job description

Our client, a leading multi-strategy hedge fund, is seeking a Production Engineer to provide hands‑on support for a mission‑critical, low‑latency trading platform. The role is focused on ensuring platform stability, resolving production incidents quickly, and delivering seamless support to front‑office trading teams in a live market environment.

The successful candidate will drive operational excellence through proactive monitoring, automation, root cause analysis, and continuous platform improvements. Working closely with software engineering and infrastructure teams, they will help enhance the reliability, observability, and resilience of the firm’s global trading systems.

Key Responsibilities

• Provide production support for a high‑performance, low‑latency trading platform in a live trading environment.
• Monitor system health, trading workflows, and platform behavior to ensure reliability and rapid issue detection.
• Respond to production incidents, drive triage and resolution, and coordinate effectively across trading, development, and infrastructure teams.
• Support front‑office users by investigating trading issues, answering workflow questions, and helping resolve time‑sensitive production problems.
• Own and improve monitoring, alerting, telemetry, and operational dashboards across the trading platform.
• Develop and enhance automation, runbooks, and operational tools to improve supportability and reduce operational risk.

Required Qualifications

• Strong experience in production engineering, SRE, or application support within real‑time or trading environments.
• Experience supporting business‑critical production systems with a strong sense of urgency and ownership.
• Strong understanding of monitoring, observability, alerting, incident management, and root cause analysis.
• Experience supporting front‑office users in a fast‑paced environment.
• Strong troubleshooting skills across application and system behavior in a Linux environment.
• Strong attention to detail, operational discipline, and focus on platform stability.