Site Reliability Engineer

Tribus; Hong Kong; On-site; HKD 900,000 - 1,500,000; Full time

Job summary

Tribus, Hong Kong-based quantitative trading firm, seeks a Site Reliability Engineer for core trading systems. You will join a high-ownership team focused on reliability, automation, and scalable internal tooling to support front-office risk platforms.

This hands-on role requires deep Linux, networking, and software engineering skills, with emphasis on solving complex problems and improving production systems.

Qualifications

• Strong software engineering skills in Python, C++, or another modern programming language.
• Solid Linux systems administration and troubleshooting experience.
• Good understanding of networking fundamentals, including TCP/IP and multicast.
• Experience diagnosing and resolving issues across distributed systems.
• Familiarity with observability, monitoring and automation tools.
• Passion for building reliable, scalable and operationally excellent infrastructure.

Responsibilities

• Build, maintain and improve core trading systems.
• Troubleshoot and automate repetitive tasks to improve reliability.
• Ensure reliability and high performance of front-office risk platforms.

Skills

Python

C++

Linux

Networking fundamentals

Observability & monitoring

Automation

Distributed systems

Job description

Site Reliability Engineer – Core Trading Systems

Hong Kong-based | Site Reliability Engineer | Quantitative trading technology

A leading quantitative trading and systematic investment firm is looking for a Site Reliability Engineer to join a core trading technology team.

This role sits at the intersection of software engineering, cloud infrastructure, automation, and production reliability. The team is focused on building scalable internal tooling, improving operational robustness, and enabling stable, high-performance services for front-office risk platforms.

The environment is heavily engineering-driven with strong ownership across automation, observability, and production systems.

What You’ll Be Working On:

As part of the engineering team, you'll help build, maintain and continuously improve the systems that power a high-performance trading environment. This is a hands-on role focused on solving complex technical problems, improving reliability, and automating everything that should never need to be done twice.

Our Client is looking for someone who:

• Enjoys understanding how systems work beneath the surface and isn't afraid to dig into the details.
• Naturally starts troubleshooting when something doesn't look right.
• Sees repetitive manual work as an opportunity for automation.
• Takes pride in building reliable, scalable and resilient systems.

What We're Looking For

Technology matters, but we're even more interested in how you approach problems and think as an engineer. You will likely bring experience with:

• Strong software engineering skills in Python, C++, or another modern programming language.
• Solid Linux systems administration and troubleshooting experience.
• A good understanding of networking fundamentals, including TCP/IP and multicast.
• Experience diagnosing and resolving issues across distributed systems.
• Familiarity with observability, monitoring and automation tools.
• A passion for building reliable, scalable and operationally excellent infrastructure.