Talent Pool: Trading Systems Engineer

Join Flow Traders' Trading Systems Engineer Talent Pool. We are always searching for talented engineers to strengthen our growing organization. If your experience aligns with our team's mission, we will reach out for an exploratory conversation to learn more about you and your interest in Flow Traders.

This role focuses on elevating Flow Traders' GCP-focused platform, especially GKE, while maintaining strong Linux and networking fundamentals. Our trading platforms span both ultra-low-latency bare-metal systems and modern cloud-native services. You will bridge on-premises and cloud environments, strengthen global platform standards, and drive high-impact improvements that enhance reliability, reduce toil, and support time-sensitive trading workloads.

What you'll do

• Serve as the US-based subject matter expert for our GCP platform with a strong focus on GKE workloads, working within globally aligned standards while contributing expertise to improve Terraform-driven infrastructure and shape cloud architecture across regions.
• Identify and drive engineering improvements by researching pain points, reducing toil, and delivering high-impact solutions across cloud and trading infrastructure.
• Leverage automation and Infrastructure as Code to manage and optimize Linux and Kubernetes environments spanning bare-metal, virtualized, and cloud-native systems, streamlining workflows and reducing operational friction.
• Strengthen platform reliability by improving global monitoring and alerting frameworks, incorporating adaptive and self-healing mechanisms to elevate operational responsiveness.
• Act as a senior escalation point for complex Linux, Kubernetes, and cloud issues, participating in on-call rotations and ensuring thorough, well-reasoned incident resolution.
• Provide regional technical leadership while collaborating with global stakeholders to define and implement platform standards, architectures, and large-scale initiatives.
• Use AI-assisted engineering tools to accelerate analysis, troubleshooting, documentation, and operational automation.

What you bring

• 7 to 10+ years operating complex production environments spanning Linux, Kubernetes, and cloud-native infrastructure.
• Deep cloud experience, preferably within GKE or an equivalent stack including cluster operations, workload orchestration, networking, security, and observability.
• Strong Terraform expertise for provisioning and managing secure, scalable infrastructure.
• Solid Linux fundamentals including performance tuning, debugging, networking, virtualization, and bare-metal experience.
• Strong scripting skills in Python and Bash for automation, tooling, and operational workflows.
• Experience with Kafka or similar streaming or data-pipeline technologies.
• Knowledge of Puppet or Ansible for configuration management and Foreman or Satellite for lifecycle and host management.
• Practical understanding of monitoring and observability tools such as Prometheus and Grafana, plus modern alerting strategies.
• Strong Git-centric workflows and comfort with modern CI/CD practices.
• Ability to lead and influence technical direction at a regional level while collaborating effectively with global colleagues.
• An entrepreneurial mindset, proactively identifying gaps, reducing toil, and driving self-directed engineering improvements.

What we offer

• Base compensation of $160,000 to $215,000 plus annual discretionary variable remuneration allocated based on company, group, and individual performance and contribution.

About Flow Traders

Flow Traders is a global team committed to open and transparent communication with employees, stakeholders, and communities. The organization uses reliable market research to establish compensation ranges and shares company success through an annual discretionary variable remuneration program.