Trading Systems Engineer: Automation & Reliability

P2P; Amsterdam; On-site; EUR 120,000 - 170,000; Full time

Job summary

DRW is a diversified trading firm, operating globally with a focus on autonomy and technology-driven trading. The Trading Systems Engineer role provides mission-critical support for core proprietary trading systems, including deployment, configuration, automation, and cross-team collaboration across Linux environments.

The candidate will join a team delivering best-in-class support processes, ensuring system availability and proactive monitoring, while troubleshooting incidents and enhancing

Qualifications

• Experience supporting high performance applications, process monitoring, and troubleshooting.
• Previous trading systems support experience preferred.
• Knowledge of networking fundamentals (multicast, TCP, routing).
• Basic scripting skills (Python, PowerShell or Bash).
• Experience working in Linux environments.
• Prior experience working with FIX protocol and exchange protocols a plus.
• Experience with monitoring suites such as Splunk, Kibana & Grafana a plus.
• Flexibility to work slightly varied hours as trading activity needs dictate.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills.
• B.S. in Computer Science or equivalent degree.

Responsibilities

• Work as part of a team to establish best-in-class support processes to ensure flawless operation of production trading technologies, flawless software deployment and configuration processes, and proactive monitoring and support to anticipate and avoid issues before they occur
• Ensure maximum trading system availability to avoid missing any key trading opportunities
• Provide support for trading production systems
• Develop proprietary process automation and monitoring tools and leverage third-party technologies as appropriate
• Provide support for proprietary trading systems deployed across a multi-platform production environment (primarily Linux with a little Windows)
• Troubleshoot trading system production incidents resulting from internal or external factors
• Automate software configuration and rollout procedures to reduce manual configuration errors and strive for flawless change management
• Support core market connectivity and correspond with exchanges regarding trade order activity, connectivity, and other related technical support issues
• Work interactively with DBAs, core development teams, back office systems, QA Engineers, Infrastructure and management teams when deploying production releases and troubleshooting technical issues

Skills

High performance applications

Troubleshooting

Excellent communication

Flexibility to hours

Linux environments

Education

B.S. in Computer Science

Tools

Docker

Splunk

Kibana

Grafana

Chef

Ansible

Job description

DRW is a diversified trading firm, operating globally with a focus on autonomy and technology-driven trading. The Trading Systems Engineer role provides mission-critical support for core proprietary trading systems, including deployment, configuration, automation, and cross-team collaboration across Linux environments.

The candidate will join a team delivering best-in-class support processes, ensuring system availability and proactive monitoring, while troubleshooting incidents and enhancing