Senior Trading Risk Control Specialist

As a Senior Trading Risk Control Specialist at Bybit, you develop and improve risk and surveillance strategies to identify abusive or manipulative activity across spot, perpetual futures, options, and related trading products. You investigate suspicious trading patterns, define behavioural indicators for emerging manipulation methods, and partner with Product and Compliance teams to design and implement effective monitoring rules. You work with a global team of 80 million users across more than 200 countries and regions, operating one of the world's leading cryptocurrency exchanges.

What you'll do

• Develop and continuously improve risk and surveillance strategies for identifying abusive or manipulative activity across spot, perpetual futures, options, and related trading products
• Investigate potentially coordinated or suspicious trading activity using order-flow analysis, self-trading and crossing behaviours, order-book signals, and account-linkage indicators
• Define behavioural patterns for new or evolving manipulation methods, particularly in thinly traded assets, leveraged instruments, and liquidation-driven market events
• Assess the impact of identified risks, including possible market disruption, financial exposure, and concentration of risk, to inform prioritisation and leadership reporting
• Partner with Product, Compliance, and other relevant teams to design, test, and implement appropriate monitoring rules and risk controls
• Collaborate with data scientists and analysts to translate trading-risk concepts into effective detection logic, models, and monitoring workflows

What you bring

• Practical experience trading or managing risk in derivatives, with strong knowledge of futures, perpetual swaps, and options
• Solid understanding of leverage, margin requirements, liquidation processes, insurance-fund structures, and auto-deleveraging mechanisms
• Demonstrated experience in trading-risk management, market surveillance, or preventing market-abuse activity such as spoofing, layering, wash trading, front-running, or misuse of privileged information
• Strong analytical ability; advanced SQL skills are essential, and Python experience is highly desirable
• Ability to independently create and validate detection approaches using order-level and trade-level data
• A mindset that anticipates how bad actors may build positions, obscure their behaviour, and exploit market or product mechanics

Nice to have

• Background in market surveillance, trading risk, or market-conduct roles at a digital-asset exchange, brokerage, or trading venue
• Active derivatives-trading experience or a demonstrable quantitative trading record
• Familiarity with conventional financial-market abuse regulations, surveillance frameworks, or vendor platforms
• Knowledge of blockchain analytics and on-chain transaction tracing
• Experience using graph analysis or entity-resolution methods to uncover coordinated account networks and fund flows
• Familiarity with market-quality and anomaly indicators, such as VPIN and HHI

What we offer

• Study Growth Fund to support your professional development and continuous learning
• Internal events including team-building activities, workshops, and collaborative sessions
• Global collaboration as part of a diverse, international team
• Career advancement opportunities within a rapidly expanding global company
• Internal mobility and long-term development pathways

About Bybit

Established in 2018, Bybit is one of the world's leading cryptocurrency exchanges and digital financial platforms, serving over 80 million users across more than 200 countries and regions. The platform delivers a seamless ecosystem across trading, payments, wealth management, custody, institutional services, and Web3, recognized as one of the most trusted and transparent platforms in the digital asset industry.