Trading Systems Engineer

Fintal Partners; New York (NY); On-site; USD 140,000 - 230,000; Full time

Job summary

Fintal Partners in New York seeks an experienced platform engineer to design and evolve infrastructure powering real-time trading systems. You will build tooling for deployment, provisioning, and operations while strengthening observability and alerting across critical systems.

Work closely with engineering and trading teams to improve reliability, scalability, and performance in high-availability environments, with a strong emphasis on automation and containerized platforms.

Qualifications

• Strong Python focus on automation and infra tooling.
• Deep understanding of Linux production systems.
• Experience with Kubernetes and containerized platforms.
• Familiarity with monitoring and alerting ecosystems.

Responsibilities

• Design and improve infrastructure for low-latency production systems.
• Build internal tooling for deployment, provisioning, and operations.
• Enhance observability, monitoring, and alerting across critical infra.
• Improve CI/CD pipelines and software delivery processes.
• Collaborate with engineers to boost reliability and scalability.
• Automate ops tasks across Linux environments.

Skills

Python automation

Linux systems

Kubernetes

Observability tooling

CI/CD pipelines

Troubleshooting

Infrastructure as code

Tools

Kubernetes

Container platforms

Job description

We’re partnered with a leading quantitative trading firm continuing to invest heavily in its infrastructure and platform engineering organization supporting real-time production systems.

This team is responsible for building and evolving the core infrastructure that powers trading across global markets, with a strong focus on scalability, automation, observability, and operational reliability. Engineers work closely with development and trading teams to ensure systems are performant, resilient, and efficient in highly demanding production environments.

What you’ll do:

• Design and improve infrastructure supporting low-latency production systems
• Build internal tooling and platforms for deployment, provisioning, and operational workflows
• Improve observability, monitoring, and alerting across critical infrastructure
• Enhance CI/CD pipelines and software delivery processes
• Partner closely with engineering teams to improve production reliability and scalability
• Automate operational tasks and infrastructure management across Linux environments

Looking for:

• Strong Python experience focused on automation and infrastructure tooling
• Deep understanding of Linux systems and production infrastructure
• Experience working with Kubernetes and containerized platforms
• Familiarity with monitoring, observability, and alerting ecosystems
• Experience with infrastructure as code and configuration management frameworks
• Strong troubleshooting ability and operational mindset within high-availability environments
• Ability to work cross-functionally and take ownership of infrastructure initiatives