Senior Production Platform Engineer

Optiver; Chicago (IL); On-site; USD 180,000 - 220,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

401(k) match up to 50%

Comprehensive health coverage

Paid vacation and holidays

Job summary

Optiver is seeking an experienced Production Software Engineer to build infrastructure and automate our trading production environment in Chicago. You will design deployment pipelines, monitor production systems, and develop tooling to reduce operational friction.

You’ll collaborate across operations, development, and infrastructure, mentor junior engineers, and take ownership of production sub-systems end-to-end, driving robust, scalable, and safe change in a fast-paced financial markets

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in CS or related technical field.
• “Strong programming ability (Python at a minimum; Golang/Rust would be beneficial)”
• “Broad understanding of the full technology stack including servers, networking, Linux, databases, web servers and applications”
• “Experience with CI/CD tooling to assist with production change pipelines”
• “Experience with metrics and observability platforms”
• “Experience with technologies such as Ansible, Django, FastAPI, Flask, Jenkins, Hashicorp Vault, Docker/Podman and Kubernetes would be beneficial”
• “Previous experience in production management would be beneficial”
• “Ability to bring an improvement mindset and critical eye to complex operational challenges (including security)”

Responsibilities

• Design and build deployment pipelines that improve how changes enter production, from validation through rollout and verification.
• Build and maintain production environment monitoring infrastructure, focusing on incident detection and alerting.
• Develop tooling and automation to reduce operational friction and increase reliability.
• Collaborate with stakeholders across operations, development, and infrastructure to refine feedback loops across production management.
• Mentor junior team members and help foster growth of engineers.
• Take operational ownership of production sub-systems.
• Own your work end-to-end from problem understanding to design, implementation, testing, deployment, and monitoring.

Skills

Python

Golang/Rust

CI/CD tooling

Metrics/observability

Ansible

Django

FastAPI

Flask

Jenkins

Hashicorp Vault

Docker/Podman

Kubernetes

Production management

Education

Bachelor’s degree in CS or related technical field

Tools

Ansible

Django

FastAPI

Flask

Jenkins

Hashicorp Vault

Docker/Podman

Kubernetes

Job description

Optiver is seeking an experienced Production Software Engineer to build infrastructure and automate our trading production environment in Chicago. You will design deployment pipelines, monitor production systems, and develop tooling to reduce operational friction.

You’ll collaborate across operations, development, and infrastructure, mentor junior engineers, and take ownership of production sub-systems end-to-end, driving robust, scalable, and safe change in a fast-paced financial markets