Low-Latency Trading Platform Engineer

Balyasny Asset Management L.P.; Hong Kong; On-site; HKD 900,000 - 1,300,000; Full time

Job summary

Balyasny Asset Management in Hong Kong is seeking a Trading Platform Engineer to join the Systematic Technology team. The role focuses on reliability, observability, and day‑to‑day support of a high‑performance, low‑latency trading platform.

You will work with front‑office users, quantitative researchers, and developers to ensure platform stability, rapid incident response, and well‑monitored production environments.

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.
• Ability to work effectively with trading, Quantitative Researchers, and software engineering teams.
• Scripting or automation experience in Python or similar.

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.
• Perform root cause analysis on production issues and drive follow-up actions to improve platform resilience.
• Support release processes, change management, and controlled production rollouts.
• Monitor and investigate data quality, platform behavior, and workflow exceptions across trading and market data processes.
• Partner with engineering teams to improve recoverability, observability, and operational readiness of trading applications.
• Help define and maintain operational standards, support procedures, and production controls.

Job description

Balyasny Asset Management in Hong Kong is seeking a Trading Platform Engineer to join the Systematic Technology team. The role focuses on reliability, observability, and day‑to‑day support of a high‑performance, low‑latency trading platform.

You will work with front‑office users, quantitative researchers, and developers to ensure platform stability, rapid incident response, and well‑monitored production environments.