Systems Engineer (Trading Infrastructure)

Overview Role: Quantitative Software Engineer Lead 5 days a week in NYC HQ Base salary: $225k-375k Equity: Competitive Initial Equity Package + refreshers 4+ Years of Experience About Pillar Pillar is building the next-generation commodity risk management stack for the $10T physical economy. We combine real-time marketdata with AI-powered exposure modeling and automated trade generation to arm operators with precise protection from volatility. From instant execution to continuous monitoring, alerts, and recommendations, Pillar turns complex market risk into a fully managed, always-on hedging engine. We were founded in 2023 by the youngest macro market-maker at Barclays and a trading systems engineer at Coinbase, and have raised over $20M in capital from Andreesen Horowitz (a16z), Crucible Capital, Neo, Crossbeam Venture Partners and more. What You’ll Do Architect the future of commodity trading infrastructure: Lead development of our trading system as we start scaling in new markets and onboarding new customers. Engineer at the edge of performance: Build and optimize low-latency distributed systems, ensuring our platform minimizes risk and gets optimal prices on fills. Build and mentor a world-class team: Shape our engineering culture, hire and mentor talented engineers, and collaborate directly with founders to solve some of the most challenging problems in financial technology. Own critical systems end-to-end: From market data ingestion to order execution and risk monitoring, you'll have autonomy over mission-critical infrastructure that keeps our clients' businesses running 24/7. What We are Looking For Deep understanding of data structures, algorithms, design patterns, and core systems fundamentals. Extensive experience architecting and building complex financial systems with a focus on building and scaling low latency event driven distributed systems Strong ownership and teamwork, ability to work collaboratively to unblock work, drive momentum, and make sure im

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

Overview Role: Lead Software Engineer - DevOps and Infra 5 days a week in NYC HQ Base salary: $175k-250k Equity: Competitive Initial Equity Package + refreshers 3+ Years of Experience About Pillar Pillar is building the next-generation commodity risk management stack for the $10T physical economy. We combine real-time marketdata with AI-powered exposure modeling and automated trade generation to arm operators with precise protection from volatility. From instant execution to continuous monitoring, alerts, and recommendations, Pillar turns complex market risk into a fully managed, always-on hedging engine. We were founded in 2023 by the youngest macro market-maker at Barclays and a trading systems engineer at Coinbase, and have raised over $20M in capital from Andreesen Horowitz (a16z), Crucible Capital, Neo, DST Global and more. What You’ll Do Expand and Own the AWS Cloud: You will take full ownership of our AWS environment. We aren't just looking for someone to keep the lights on; we want you to architect, scale, and optimize our cloud footprint to support new services, ensuring our AWS presence is robust, cost-effective, and deeply integrated with our core trading systems. Architect the Infrastructure Stack: You will lead our transition to a full Infrastructure as Code (IaC) model . Your goal is to eliminate manual configuration by building out a sophisticated, modular Terraform stack. We want a world where our entire hybrid footprint—from cloud instances to colocation networking—is defined, tested, and deployed through code. System Hardening & Security: You’ll be the gatekeeper for our environments. This means managing the full lifecycle of container security, CVE remediation, and hitting our SOC2 milestones without slowing down the team. Observability Architecture: Beyond just setting up dashboards, you will design our monitoring strategy using to catch bottlenecks before they become outages. Pipeline Evolution: You'll refine our GitHub Actions and CI/CD wor

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 Low-Latency Architecture: Design, provision, and maintain ultra-low latency AWS and hybrid network topologies, including VPCs, exchange gateways, and regional deployment expansions. Performance Tuning: Optimize Linux OS kernels and compute performance using CPU isolation (isolcpus), AWS Cluster Placement Groups, and enhanced networking (ENA/ENI). Infrastructure as Code: Drive infrastructure automation, provisioning, and configuration management using Terraform and Ansible. Platform Scaling: Architect infrastructure to support expanding Exchange Market Making (EMM), Project Market Making (PMM), and TradFi exchange convergences. Observability & Reliability: Build telemetry and monitoring pipelines using Grafana Cloud and Alloy to ensure continuous visibility into platform performance. Technical Leadership: Guide the technical roadmap, mentor junior engineers, and act as an escalation lead for critical system incidents. Key Qualifications 5+ years of experience in Infrastructure Engineering, Systems Engineering, or SRE, with a focus on low-latency electronic trading environments . Deep Linux Internals Expertise: Advanced experience with kernel-level performance tuning, memory management, and network I/O optimization (isolcpus, network profiling, ring

Ready to do the most impactful work of your career? At Coinbase , we are uncompromising on our mission to increase economic freedom. The bar is high, the environment is intense, and we like it that way. This isn't a place for complacency, it’s a place to be pushed past your perceived limits. If you're ready to build the future of finance alongside people who refuse to settle for "good enough," you belong here. Coinbase is a remote-first, but not remote-only company. Expect to get together quarterly for intense in-person working sessions called “surges.” learn more about working at Coinbase . As an Infrastructure Lead on the Exchange team within Institutional , you'll own the network infrastructure, deployment, and operational tooling behind a unified trading platform that runs across cloud and on-prem/colocated venues. This team powers the systems that let the world's largest financial institutions trade across markets with speed, depth, and trust. You'll keep latency-sensitive, multi-node trading environments fast, reliable, and easy to build on, shaping trading infrastructure from the ground up with the ownership of a startup and the reach of Coinbase. What you'll do: Own, operate, and optimize resilient, ultra-low-latency networks and physical data-center infrastructure supporting institutional trading, market data, and exchange connectivity across cloud and on-prem environments, including racking, cabling, cross-connects, and vendor coordination. Design and maintain routing, traffic-segmentation, and multicast market-data architectures using BGP, OSPF, VRFs, PIM, IGMP, and high-availability platforms such as Arista MLAG, Cisco vPC, and VRRP. Deploy and operate firewalls and secure connectivity across Fortinet and Palo Alto platforms, including IPsec VPNs, SSL VPNs, and third-party connections. Drive observability and operational excellence through SNMP, gRPC telemetry, latency and packet-loss analysis, microburst detection, and network automation usi

Description: Graviton is a privately funded quantitative trading firm striving for excellence in financial markets research. We are seeking a Software Engineer for our team in Gurgaon. Our Core Technology team has some of the best programmers in India working on cutting edge technologies to build a super fast and robust trading infrastructure handling millions of dollars worth of trading transactions every day. Requirements Contribute to all layers of backend systems including databases, APIs and applications Design, build and maintain applications for business requirements Architect scalable and reliable applications Write clean and modular code, following good coding standards and practices Troubleshoot and debug applications Be involved in the entire application lifecycle Collaborate with multidisciplinary team of front-end developers, engineers and system administrators Devise innovative solutions to address new and complicated challenges Build reusable code and libraries for future use Take lead on projects, as needed Work in a high paced competitive environment Qualifications The ideal candidate will have: Engineering degree in Computer Science (preferred) or any other discipline from a Tier 1 college. 3 to 4 years of relevant experience in designing and improving information systems Proficiency in Python programming Extensive experience working with relational databases and handling large datasets Good Understanding of object oriented and asynchronous programming Familiarity with front-end languages such as HTML, JavaScript and CSS Knowledge of Linux systems and bash scripting Good communication and interpersonal skills Willingness to continuously learn and improve Ability to work in fast paced environment under pressure and manage multiple high priority projects Good to have: Experience in Financial services space/domain Experience in and understanding of system design decisions Experience in leading small teams or projects Benefits: Our open and casua