Senior Trading Systems Support (DevOps) Engineer

FalconX; Bengaluru; On-site; INR 4,000,000 - 7,000,000; Full time

Job summary

FalconX in Bengaluru is seeking an experienced Site Reliability Engineer/DevOps specialist to own the reliability and performance of its trading platforms. You will design, automate, and operate core infrastructure spanning on‑prem and cloud, with a focus on latency, security, and scale.

You will work with cross‑functional teams on incident response, observability, and deployment automation, and participate in on‑call rotations to protect trading activity in a fast‑paced crypto environment.

Qualifications

• Bachelors with 5+ years of SRE/DevOps experience, preferably in trading platforms.
• Experience with low latency electronic trading environments is preferred.
• Strong knowledge of Linux internals, network I/O, and scripting.

Responsibilities

• Build and maintain core trading platforms with a focus on reliability, scalability and security.
• Provide on-call support and incident management for production systems.
• Implement automation for deployment, monitoring, and incident remediation.
• Optimize systems for lowest latency and high availability.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams across trading, infra, and security.

Skills

Linux internals

Bash scripting

Front Office trading

FIX protocol

Kubernetes

Docker

Cloud (AWS/Azure/GCP)

CI/CD pipelines

C/C++/Java/Python

Databases (MySQL/Postgres/Redis/Mongo)

Messaging (Kafka/RabbitMQ)

Observability (Grafana)

Education

Bachelor's degree in CS/Engineering or related field

Tools

CMake

GitHub Actions

Jenkins

ArgoCD

Ansible

Terraform

Docker Compose

Job description

FalconX is a pioneering team of operators, investors, and builders committed to revolutionizing institutional access to the crypto markets. Operating at the intersection of traditional finance and cutting‑edge technology, FalconX addresses the industry's foremost challenges: Navigating the digital asset market can be complex and fragmented, with limited products and services that support trading strategies, structures, and liquidity found in conventional financial markets. As a comprehensive solution for all digital asset strategies from start to scale, FalconX operates as the connective tissue empowering clients with seamless navigation through the ever‑evolving cryptocurrency landscape.

Responsibilities-

• Be part of a trading systems engineering team, dedicated to building out the core trading platforms
• Work closely with cross functional teams to improve the system reliability, scalability and security
• Engage in and improve the quality supporting the platform
• Build and manage systems, infrastructure and applications through automation
• Provide operational support to internal teams working on the platform
• Work on improvements to bring in high efficiency, reduce latency, deploy systems faster
• Practice sustainable incident response and blameless postmortems
• Together with your engineering team, you will share an on‑call rotation and be an escalation contact for service incidents
• Implement and maintain rigorous security best practices across all infrastructure, with a focus on minimizing attack surface and ensuring data integrity
• Monitor system health and performance with a keen eye for identifying and resolving issues before they affect trading activity
• Manage user queries and service requests (often requiring in depth analysis of the technical and/or business logic of our systems)
• Proactive approach to problem analysis and resolution of production incidents
• Manage Issue tracking and prioritisation of day to day production incidents
• Manage platform trading support initiatives (e.g. platform monitoring, reporting, release automation)
• Bachelors with 5+ years of working experience as Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) / Devops Engineer
• Strong knowledge of Linux system internals (kernels, memory management, file systems & network I/O optimization) as well as bash scripting.
• Minimum 5+ years experience in a Front Office Trading Floor or related application support experience
• Need to be available to work in US (Night) Shift
• Good product knowledge in financial instruments including experience in managing front to back trading lifecycle and familiar with order life cycle (Equities, FX, Crypto etc
• Experience with electronic trading platforms and OMS/EMS system
• Knowledge of ITIL practices including Incident, Problem and Change managemen
• Experience with system monitoring platform
• Proven expertise optimizing systems for lowest latency performance and productionizing trading systems, from initial concept to full deployment, including on-prem and colocatio
• Strong working knowledge of network communications fundamentals TCP/IP and U
• DPKnowledge of FIX protocol, as well as familiarity with low latency multicast with Aero
• Strong skills around observability, debugging and performance tuning, with a willingness to dive‑deep to determine the root caus
• Effective communicator, with the ability to explain root causes in plain language, then outline plans and recommendations to remediate and ultimately to execute plans that systematically resolve issue
• Demonstrated ability to build tools that enable rapid operational triage; leveraging logs, performance telemetry metrics and traces to make Grafana dashboards
• Strong experience deploying and managing Cloud infrastructure with providers like AWS, Azure and/or GCP (accounts, profiles, IAM roles, Policies, service classes, instance types, etc
• Strong experience adapting workloads to use Cloud Native technologies, like kubernetes and docker etc. (Dockerfile, docker-compose, helm charts, deploy manifest, ingress wiring, service mesh, etc
• Expertise using devops deployment tooling, like Github Actions, Jenkins, ArgoCD and Ansibl
• Hands‑on experience developing in one or more programming languages: C, C++, Java, Python
• Proficient in utilizing C++ build systems such as CMake and building CI/CD pipelines for trading system
• Working knowledge of key backing services like mysql, PostgresDB, Redis, MongoDB, DynamoDB, Kafka, RabbitMQ.

Key attributes critical to success-

• Strong interpersonal skills and the ability to communicate confidently and clearly with internal teams and external counterpart.
• Ability to analyse complex scenarios from both a technical and business perspective and deliver solution
• A sense of urgency, and an ability to deliver to deadlines in an environment where multiple competing requirements are a part.
• Proactivity and a strong ownership ethos, ensuring that queries are resolved through to competition.
• Desire and ability to deliver improvements to the platfolio

Preferred Qualification-

• Extensive experience with DevOps for Deployment automation and App level support, as well as SRE and/or Linux systems Administrator for systems and infrastructure level support
• Extensive experience in a Low Latency Electronic trading environment, where high performance is critical at all stages of the infrastructure, network and application design and implementation
• Expertise in developing advanced observability capabilities (USE-RED signals, Tracing, front end observability

Bonus Points-

• Experience with hardware acceleration technologies (FPGAs, GPUs, LPU, TPU)
• Experience with financial data security regulations (PCI DSS, SO
• Familiarity with algorithmic trading strategies and quantitative analysis