$179K – $226K/yr
Who are we? FalconX is a pioneering team of operators, investors, and builders committed to revolutionizing institutional access to the crypto markets. Operating at the intersection of traditional finance and cutting-edge technology, FalconX addresses the industry's foremost challenges: Navigating the digital asset market can be complex and fragmented, with limited products and services that support trading strategies, structures, and liquidity found in conventional financial markets. As a comprehensive solution for all digital asset strategies from start to scale, FalconX operates as the connective tissue empowering clients with seamless navigation through the ever- evolving cryptocurrency landscape. Responsibilities Build, scale, and optimize core low-latency trading platforms. Architect AWS and hybrid cloud infrastructure for microsecond execution using kernel tuning (isolcpus), AWS Placement Groups, and enhanced networking (ENA/ENI). Design and maintain release pipelines for core trading engines (OMS, EMS, Gateways), ensuring zero-downtime deployments and deterministic rollbacks. Collaborate across teams to enhance platform reliability, performance, scalability, and security. Provision high-throughput messaging paths (Aeron, FIX gateways) to support venue expansions for market making and regional growth. Drive infrastructure automation, network topology design, and OS configurations using Terraform and Ansible. Build real-time telemetry pipelines using Grafana Cloud, Alloy, and Prometheus to detect latency spikes and system issues. Drive continuous platform efficiency, reduce tick-to-trade latency, and accelerate deployment cycles. Practice sustainable incident response, reduce MTTR, establish error budgets, and conduct blameless postmortems. Share on-call rotation duties and serve as a primary escalation point for production incidents. Enforce security best practices across all trading infrastructure to minimize attack surfaces and guarantee data integrity. Min