Trading Reliability Engineer

Tempest Vane Partners; Greater London; On-site; GBP 90,000 - 150,000; Full time

Job summary

Tempest Vane Partners is seeking a Trading Reliability Engineer in London to support and engineer our low-latency trading platforms. You will build automation and monitoring tooling to ensure reliability and stability across the tech stack.

You will collaborate with quant researchers, portfolio managers and front office users, bringing extensive experience in systematic trading environments and strong Linux-based troubleshooting and automation skills to the team.

Qualifications

• 3+ years of experience supporting systematic trading systems.
• Strong troubleshooting skills across application and system behaviour in a Linux environment.
• Extensive coding and scripting skills for building infrastructure and automating operational tasks.
• In-depth knowledge of monitoring, observability, alerting, incident management, and root cause analysis.
• Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills.

Responsibilities

• Provide production support and engineering for low latency trading platforms.
• Build automation and monitoring tooling across the technology stack.
• Collaborate with quant researchers, portfolio managers and front office users.
• Support multiple asset classes and trading desks within the systematic business.

Skills

Linux

Troubleshooting

Scripting

Automation

Observability

Stakeholder mgmt

Communication

Low-latency

Root cause

Tools

Monitoring

Job description

Tempest Vane Partners have partnered with a global multi-strategy hedge fund who are looking to hire a Trading Reliability Engineer for their systematic trading business here in London.

The role will encompass both production support and engineering for their low latency trading platforms, ensuring strong reliability and stability of the platforms by building automation and monitoring tooling across the technology stack. You will work directly with quant researchers, portfolio Managers and other front office users so prior experience working in a similar role within a systematic trading environment is required.

This is a fast-paced role where you will supporting many different asset classes and trading desks within their systematic business. To be considered a good fit, extensive experience supporting low latency trading applications is required, alongside strong engineering and automation skills.

Key Requirements

• 3+ years of experience supporting systematic trading systems for a hedge fund, quant trading firm, investment bank or similar
• Strong troubleshooting skills across application and system behaviour in a Linux environment.
• Extensive coding and scripting skills for building infrastructure and automating operational tasks
• In depth knowledge of monitoring, observability, alerting, incident management, and root cause analysis
• Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills

This is a chance to join a household name in the global hedge fund industry, who are known for investing in the latest technologies and hiring some of the best people in the industry.