The Role
Design, build, and own the platform and Backstage software catalog; modernize deployments using GitOps, containers, and progressive delivery; tune RHEL and migrate latency-sensitive workloads from VMware to AWS; write IaC (Terraform/CDK); improve CI/CD pipelines and developer self-service; participate in on-call rotations to maintain high reliability for trading systems.
Summary Generated by Built In
Trading Technologies is in the middle of a massive infrastructure shift within the high-stakes world of capital markets. We’re removing our legacy VMware datacenter, upgrading our Red Hat ecosystem, and modernizing our AWS footprint to support low latency, high-performance trading systems. To pull this off, we’re restructuring our engineering org into dedicated Cloud and Platform teams.
If you are looking to gain deep, hands-on experience building the highly robust, low-latency platforms that power capital markets, this is your chance.
We need a Senior Platform Engineer to join the new Platform Team. Your main goal? Make life incredibly easy for our developers while maintaining the ironclad reliability our industry demands. We want to stop treating infrastructure as a ticketing system and start treating our platform as a product. To do that, we are making Backstage the center of our universe, building it out as the core data model and source of truth for all of our platform engineering operations
Role will be expected to be on call as part of the standard on call rotations.
Role will be expected to be on call as part of the standard on call rotations.
What Will You Be Involved With?
- Own Backstage: You will architect and build out Backstage so it acts as our central software catalog, holding all the metadata, ownership data, and telemetry for our high-performance engineering systems.
- Modernize Deployments: Our current deployment pipelines need an overhaul. You’ll help us move toward modern practices (GitOps, containerization, progressive delivery) so developers can ship code without friction—and without breaking critical financial workflows.
- Fix the DevEx: Build "golden paths" and self-service tools that abstract away the complexity of AWS. If a developer needs infrastructure, they shouldn't have to wait for someone to click buttons.
- SRE in Capital Markets: Bring your deep Linux SRE expertise to an environment where microseconds matter. You’ll support the upgrade and optimization of our Red Hat (RHEL) environments while we actively migrate latency-sensitive workloads off VMware and into a modernized AWS setup.
- Code the Infrastructure: Write clean, highly optimized Infrastructure as Code (Terraform, CDK, etc.) to ensure everything we build is reproducible, version-controlled, and tuned for maximum performance.
- Pipelines: create and improve the pipelines to drive quality, and ensure that what we deliver does not put our services at risk.
What Will You Bring to the Table?
- Experience: 7+ years primarily focused on Platform Engineering, SRE, or modern DevOps.
- Platform & DevEx Focus: You genuinely care about the developer experience. You have real experience building Internal Developer Platforms (IDPs), and ideally, you've gotten your hands dirty configuring Backstage plugins and data models.
- Linux / SRE Chops: You are a Linux expert, specifically with Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL). You know how to tune the OS for performance, troubleshoot complex issues, and scale systems under heavy load.
- Cloud Modernization: You know your way around AWS and have a track record of moving workloads out of legacy on-prem datacenters (especially VMware) into the cloud.
- Deployment Mastery: You are highly familiar with modern CI/CD, container orchestration (Docker/Kubernetes), and GitOps (ArgoCD/Flux).
- Scripting: You can write solid automation and tooling in Python, Go, TypeScript (helpful for Backstage), or Bash.
- You’ve contributed to open-source tools or built custom Backstage plugins.
- You know how to integrate complex telemetry (Datadog, Prometheus, etc.) directly into developer portals.
- Previous experience in Fintech, trading, or capital markets is great, but absolutely not required—we will teach you the domain.
What We Bring to the Table
- TT is a company in an exciting growth phase, having benefited from new ownership and investment over the last 5 years.
- A compelling suite of products, and plans for significant product development in 2026 and onwards.
- An established and mature core product offering, with a well known and well respected brand identity.
- A dynamic and positive company culture that fosters employee growth and rewards results. Comprehensive benefits package.
Trading Technologies (www.tradingtechnologies.com) is a global capital markets platform services company providing market-leading technology for the end-to-end trading operations of Tier 1 banks, brokerages, money managers, hedge funds, proprietary traders, Commodity Trading Advisors (CTAs), commercial hedgers, and risk managers. With its roots in listed derivatives, the Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) company delivers “multi-X” solutions, with “X” representing asset classes, functions, workflows, and geographies. This multi-X approach features trade execution services across futures and options, fixed income, foreign exchange (FX), and cryptocurrencies, augmented by solutions for data and analytics, including transaction cost analysis (TCA); quantitative trading; compliance and trade surveillance; clearing and post-trade allocation; and infrastructure services. The award-winning TT platform ecosystem also helps exchanges deliver innovative solutions to their market participants and technology companies to distribute their complementary offerings to Trading Technologies’ clients.
Trading Technologies is backed by leading global investment firms Thoma Bravo, one of the world’s largest and most experienced software investors, and 7Ridge, a global growth equity firm focused on technology-enabled businesses.
This investment supports Trading Technologies’ continued focus on product innovation, platform scalability, and long-term growth for customers and partners worldwide.
Trading Technologies (TT) is an equal-opportunity employer. Equal employment has been, and continues to be, a required practice at the Company. Trading Technologies’ practice of equal employment opportunity is to recruit, hire, train, promote, and base all employment decisions on ability rather than race, color, religion, national origin, sex/gender orientation, age, disability, sexual orientation, genetic information, parental status, veteran, or any other protected status. Additionally, TT participates in the E-Verify Program for US offices.
About
Trading Technologies is a Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) technology platform provider to the global capital markets industry. The company’s award-winning TT® platform connects to the world’s major international exchanges and liquidity venues in listed derivatives alongside a growing number of asset classes, including fixed income and cryptocurrencies. The TT platform delivers advanced tools for trade execution and order management, market data solutions, analytics, trade surveillance, risk management, and infrastructure services to the world’s leading sell-side institutions, buy-side firms, and exchanges. The company’s blue-chip client base includes Tier 1 banks as well as brokers, money managers, hedge funds, proprietary traders, Commodity Trading Advisors (CTAs), commercial hedgers, and risk managers. These firms rely on the TT ecosystem to manage their end-to-end trading operations. In addition, exchanges utilize TT’s technology to deliver innovative solutions to their market participants. TT also strategically partners with technology companies to make their complementary offerings available to Trading Technologies’ global client base through the TT ecosystem.
Skills Required
- 7+ years in Platform Engineering, SRE, or modern DevOps
- Experience building Internal Developer Platforms (IDPs) and working with Backstage
- Deep Linux SRE expertise, specifically Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) tuning and troubleshooting
- Experience migrating workloads from on-prem VMware datacenters to AWS
- Strong CI/CD and deployment experience, container orchestration with Docker/Kubernetes, and GitOps (ArgoCD/Flux)
- Infrastructure as Code authoring experience (Terraform, AWS CDK, or similar)
- Ability to write automation and tooling in Python, Go, TypeScript, or Bash
- Willingness to participate in standard on-call rotations
- Experience integrating telemetry (Datadog, Prometheus) into developer portals and tooling
- Open-source contributions or custom Backstage plugin development
- Previous fintech, trading, or capital markets experience
Trading Technologies Compensation & Benefits Highlights
The following summarizes recurring compensation and benefits themes identified from responses generated by popular LLMs to common candidate questions about Trading Technologies and has not been reviewed or approved by Trading Technologies.
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Healthcare Strength — Health coverage is described as competitive, with multiple plan options, discounted premiums, and wellness initiatives such as gym subsidies and healthy meal programs.
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Leave & Time Off Breadth — Paid time off is portrayed as generous, combining substantial PTO, paid holidays, flexible schedules, and added allowances like training days and volunteer time.
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Parental & Family Support — Family supports include generous parental leave for primary caregivers, backup care for children, adults, and pets, adoption assistance, and dedicated spaces for new mothers.
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The Company
What We Do
Trading Technologies creates professional trading software, infrastructure and data solutions for a wide variety of users. Be aware of fraudulent job postings: It has come to our attention that individuals pretending to represent Trading Technologies are posting fake job ads on LinkedIn and possibly other job boards. These individuals conduct candidate interviews via Skype and extend offers, likely with the intent to collect personal information such as banking information, social security number or date of birth. They use a Gmail email address that is not affiliated with Trading Technologies. Only emails using a tradingtechnologies.com or trade.tt email address are authentic. Although we use third party recruiting agencies on a case-by-case basis, all candidates speak with a staff member who has a valid company email address before any offers are extended or personal information collected. Our open positions are posted on BuiltIn and on the Careers page of our website.
Why Work With Us
Cited by Crain's and Built In Chicago as one of Chicago’s best places to work, Trading Technologies is a pioneering financial technology firm that constantly pushes boundaries in the trading industry. TT is a highly collaborative and culture-first organization that fosters an environment of creativity and camaraderie to achieve results.
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