Role: Application Reliability Engineer
Location: Gurgaon
Who we are
Graviton Research Capital is a privately funded quantitative trading firm striving for excellence
in financial markets research. We trade across a multitude of asset classes and trading venues
using a diverse range of concepts, from time series analysis and stochastic models to machine
learning and statistical inference. We analyse terabytes of data to identify pricing anomalies
and drive innovation in financial markets.
Key Responsibilities and Deliverables
The ideal candidate will possess a strong background in technical support, with a passion for
problem-solving and a commitment to excellence. As an Application Reliability Engineer, you
will be responsible for:
- Monitor production services and respond quickly to alerts, incidents, and outages to
- ensure smooth operation and minimal downtime.
- Monitor trading systems and infrastructure.,
- Triage issues across trading support services, databases, and infra; escalate and
- coordinate with the right owners, and drive root-cause analysis and ensure fixes are
- implemented for long-term stability.
- Serve as the first line of defense for trading operations.
- Proactively identify, address recurring issues, and build automation to reduce manual
- intervention.
- Improve observability by enhancing monitoring, logging, and alerting systems.
- Develop and maintain operational runbooks and SLO/SLA metrics.
Eligibility and Required Skills
Possess a degree in a highly analytical field, such as Engineering, or Computer Science
2-5 years of experience in Python, Shell/Bash scripting.
Experience with Linux and shell/bash online tools.
Hands-on experience with databases (SQL, NoSQL)
Strong problem-solving and analytical skills
Excellent communication skills
Ability to remain calm and analytical under production pressure
Good to have:
Familiarity with monitoring/alerting stacks (Prometheus, Grafana, ELK, etc.)
Familiarity with distributed messaging (Kafka) and caching systems (Redis)
Experience with CI/CD pipelines and deployment automation.
Prior experience in a support, SRE, or production engineering role.
Skills Required
- Degree in an analytical field (Engineering, Computer Science)
- 2-5 years experience in Python
- 2-5 years experience in Shell/Bash scripting
- Experience with Linux and shell/bash tools
- Hands-on experience with databases (SQL, NoSQL)
- Strong problem-solving and analytical skills
- Excellent communication skills
- Ability to remain calm and analytical under production pressure
- Familiarity with monitoring/alerting stacks (Prometheus, Grafana, ELK)
- Familiarity with distributed messaging (Kafka) and caching systems (Redis)
- Experience with CI/CD pipelines and deployment automation
- Prior experience in a support, SRE, or production engineering role
What We Do
Graviton is a quantitative investment firm established in 2014. Since our inception, we have created a team of researchers, portfolio managers, and technologists. The use of quantitative analysis and insights in financial markets enables us to compete in some of the most complex and competitive products. As an emerging electronic trading firm, we integrate disciplines such as computer science, finance, systems engineering, and statistics. We have a team of passionate engineers and traders who have built some of the fastest systems for trading. Graviton has some of the most accomplished quantitative traders in India. We have separate trading teams who use a wide range of trading strategies across different asset classes. Each of our trading teams maintains a focus on their individual processes while being supported from the core support team. Our trading teams have strategic autonomy but have access to resources which are shared across the organization like software, technology, and connectivity. They also exchange market data and memberships, compliance and all related support functions which are needed to handle the business process with precision.
