Trading production engineer

CW Talent Solutions; Hong Kong; On-site; HKD 800,000 - 1,100,000; Full time

Job summary

CW Talent Solutions is seeking a Trading Platform Engineer for the Systematic Technology team in Hong Kong. The role focuses on production engineering, reliability, and day-to-day support of a high-performance trading platform.

You will work with traders, Quant researchers, and developers to ensure stability and responsiveness to front-office needs. Ideal candidates bring experience in real-time, production systems, strong monitoring and incident management skills, and proficiency in Python

Qualifications

• Experience in production engineering or site reliability in real-time/trading environments.
• Experience supporting business-critical production systems with urgency and ownership.
• Strong monitoring, observability, alerting, incident management, and RCA.
• Experience supporting front-office users in fast-paced settings.
• Linux-based troubleshooting and platform stability focus.
• Ability to collaborate with traders, researchers, and software teams.
• Scripting or automation experience in Python or similar language.

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 teams.
• Support front-office users by investigating trading issues and resolving time-sensitive problems.
• Own and improve monitoring, alerting, telemetry, and dashboards across the trading platform.
• Develop automation, runbooks, and operational tools to reduce risk and improve supportability.
• Perform root cause analysis on production issues and drive follow-up actions for resilience.
• Support release processes, change management, and controlled production rollouts.
• Monitor data quality and workflow exceptions across trading and market data processes.
• Partner with engineering to improve recoverability and observability of trading apps.
• Help define operational standards, procedures, and production controls.

Skills

Production engineering

SRE & observability

Incident management

Linux troubleshooting

Python scripting

Stakeholder collaboration

Tools

SQL

Databases

Logging systems

Telemetry platforms

Job description

Trading Platform Engineer – Systematic Technology

CW Talent Solutions

We are seeking a Trading Platform Engineer to join our Systematic Technology team, focused on the reliability, observability, and day-to-day support of a high-performance, low-latency trading platform.

This role is primarily centered on production engineering and trading support. The ideal candidate will have experience supporting business-critical, real-time systems in production, with strong skills in monitoring, incident response, troubleshooting, automation, system behavior analysis, and operational control. You will work closely with traders, Quantitative Researchers, and developers to ensure the platform is stable, well-monitored, and responsive to front-office needs.

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 resolving 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

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, high-pressure 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 language

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience supporting systematic trading, electronic trading, or market data platforms
• Familiarity with order lifecycle, execution workflows, and trading controls
• Experience with telemetry platforms, logging, metrics, and production diagnostics
• Exposure to low-latency environments and real-time operational support
• Proficiency in SQL and databases

Success in the Role

Strong ownership of production reliability and front-office support

Disciplined approach to incident response, monitoring, and operational control

Quick troubleshooting ability and clear communication under pressure

Strong partnership with trading, research, and engineering teams

Continuous focus on improving observability, stability, and support processes

CW Talent Solutions is a specialist executive search firm placing quantitative researchers, portfolio managers, and trading technology professionals at leading hedge funds and multi-manager platforms.