Flow Traders is looking for a Trading Reliability Engineer to join our Digital Assets Tech Ops team in Hong Kong. This is a unique opportunity to be part of a team that ensures the performance, reliability, and scalability of our digital assets trading systems across both CeFi and DeFi environments. While our digital assets team is primarily based in Amsterdam, we share responsibilities for the production landscape with a global team. As a key player in our trading ecosystem, you will be responsible for monitoring, optimizing, and enhancing critical trading applications and infrastructure while working closely with traders, developers, and performance engineers to drive continuous improvement.
What You Will Do- Assist in maintaining the reliability and performance of our CeFi and DeFi trading production landscape
- Collaborate with traders, performance engineers, and infrastructure teams to identify and resolve bottlenecks impacting trading efficiency
- Support the connectivity onboarding for new exchanges and counterparties
- Monitor and troubleshoot trading-critical applications and infrastructure, escalating issues when necessary
- Contribute to observability, operability, and scalability solutions for our trading environment
- Implement and improve automated monitoring, alerting, and deployment pipelines
- Gather and analyze system metrics and logs to fine-tune trading performance and fault detection
- Support internal teams by enhancing the reliability of software and trading infrastructure through automation and system tuning
- Help improve the stability, security, and efficiency of our trading operations by working across low-latency trading platforms, APIs, and distributed systems
- Contribute to the development of internal tooling and automation to improve operational efficiency and reduce manual intervention
- 5+ years of experience in Reliability Engineering, SRE, or Production Support for mission-critical systems
- Programming skills in Python, Bash, or Go
- Expertise with Unix/Linux environments
- Interest in cryptocurrencies, blockchain technologies, or DeFi trading protocols
- Networking knowledge (TCP/IP, routing, multicast, etc.)
- Security-first mindset, with an understanding of best practices for safeguarding production environments
- Problem-solving mindset and willingness to troubleshoot technical issues in a fast-paced, high-pressure trading environment
- Good communication skills and ability to collaborate across trading, technology, and operations teams
- A proactive approach with a willingness to learn and improve continuously
- Exposure to AWS, GCP, and AliCloud cloud environments
- Basic familiarity with Kubernetes, Docker, Kafka, and Ansible
- Interest in high-frequency trading or low-latency environments
- Experience with cryptocurrencies, blockchain technologies, or DeFi trading protocols
Flow Traders does not accept unsolicited resumes from any professional staffing or search firms. All resumes, and any other information identifying potential candidates, submitted to any employee at Flow Traders via-email, the Internet or directly without a valid and signed search agreement will be deemed free to contact by Flow Traders without any restrictions and no placement fee of any kind will be paid in the event the candidate is hired by Flow Traders.
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What We Do
Since 2004, Flow Traders has been a principal trading firm and one of the world’s largest liquidity providers, specialised in Exchange Traded Products (ETPs). Our headquarters in Amsterdam and offices in New York, Singapore, Hong Kong, Milan and Cluj accommodate more than 500 employees. Throughout the years, Flow Traders has received the industry’s recognition, winning numerous awards and has been listed as a company since 2015. Our non-hierarchical approach stimulates innovation and development. We value creative minds and out-of-the-box thinkers and challenge them to make full use of their capacities. Our demanding, high-paced environment continuously puts us to the test. Flow Traders fosters a strong team-oriented culture which rewards people for their contributions to the company as a whole rather than only in their direct area of responsibility. At Flow Traders, we focus on professional and personal development; we encourage our people to be the best at anything they do by offering the right training. On top of that, we have our private gym where our health coaches provide our people with the right personal sports programs. We invest in our hard working people, because they hold the key to our success.
