Trading Operations Engineer
The Trading Operations Production Support Engineering team is responsible for maintaining and scaling Optiver’s low-latency trading systems. The team ensures a safe, stable, and efficient production environment while supporting profitability and sustainable growth across various regions. Collaborating closely with traders, development, and operational teams, the engineer will deploy, monitor, troubleshoot, and optimize our trading infrastructure to enhance reliability, performance, and automation.
WHAT YOU’LL DO
- Provide technical expertise and support to high-frequency trading floors, troubleshooting complex issues and resolving incidents in a fast-paced, dynamic setting.
- Deploy, maintain, and monitor proprietary trading applications, ensuring stability and performance in the trading environment.
- Review and analyze incidents to identify recurring themes, driving improvements to enhance automation and operational efficiency.
- Coordinate deployments of new trading products, systems, and exchanges, ensuring readiness for events such as corporate actions or special announcements.
- Architect and maintain services to maximize reliability, ensuring the trading systems operate within performance thresholds.
- Collaborate with development teams to establish best practices and ensure the long-term stability of production systems, even under extreme conditions.
- Set standards for system configuration and deployment to minimize risks and support smooth scaling.
- Manage the colocation to ensure the right level of redundancy and capacity for growth is available.
- Automate system management processes, while maintaining control over critical operations.
WHO YOU ARE
Technical Skills:
- Solid experience managing complex distributed systems in Linux environments (L2/L3 support), with a strong understanding of networking fundamentals, build, deployment, and version control systems.
- Proficiency with CI/CD tooling and scripting in Python or similar languages to automate tasks.
- Experience with relational databases (e.g., PostgreSQL) or other database systems.
- Demonstrated ability to drive system improvements and work across global teams to deliver changes.
Non-Technical Skills:
- A collaborative team player with a positive attitude, capable of coordinating effectively across departments.
- A pragmatic and logical thinker who thrives under pressure in high-intensity environments, with strong troubleshooting skills and the ability to resolve incidents efficiently.
- Effective communicator, able to clearly explain technical concepts and ask insightful questions.
- Highly organized, able to manage multiple responsibilities while keeping stakeholders informed.
- Passionate about technology, curious about the interaction between hardware and software, and driven to learn and grow by embracing frequent change.
- Prior experience in high-frequency trading environments is a plus, but not required.
No prior trading or financial experience is needed – our onboarding program will kick-start your career at Optiver and support you in gaining all the relevant knowledge about our business.
WHO WE ARE
At Optiver, our mission is to constantly improve the market by injecting liquidity, providing accurate pricing, increasing transparency and acting as a stabilizing force no matter the market conditions. With a focus on continuous improvement, we participate in the safeguarding of healthy and efficient markets for everyone who participates. As one of the largest market making institutions, we are a trusted partner of 70+ exchanges across the globe.
HOW TO APPLY
Are you interested in furthering your career on one of the most dynamic and exciting trading floors in Europe?
Apply directly via the form below for the position of Trading Operations Engineer. If you have any questions feel free to contact our Recruiter team via recruitment inquiry form.
Please note:
- We cannot accept applications via email for data protection reasons.
- We do not require any assistance from third-parties including agencies in the recruitment of this role
DIVERSITY STATEMENT
Optiver is committed to diversity and inclusion.
Optiver Compensation & Benefits Highlights
The following summarizes recurring compensation and benefits themes identified from responses generated by popular LLMs to common candidate questions about Optiver and has not been reviewed or approved by Optiver.
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Career-Linked Recognition & Rewards — Pay is considered highly competitive in trading, quantitative, and engineering paths, with performance-linked bonuses that materially elevate total compensation. High performers receive differentiated rewards tied to impact.
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Leave & Time Off Breadth — Generous paid vacation alongside market holidays is a consistent component of the U.S. package. This breadth of leave is a notable element of the offering.
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Healthcare Strength — Comprehensive health coverage—including medical, dental, and vision—is prominently offered in U.S. roles, with indications that employee premiums are fully covered in some cases. Disability and life coverage further strengthen the core health benefits.
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What We Do
Optiver’s story began over 30 years ago, when we started business as a single trader on the floor of Amsterdam’s options exchange. Today, we are at the forefront of trading and technology as a leading global electronic market maker, focused on pricing, execution and risk management.
Why Work With Us
People at Optiver love challenges, welcome collaboration, and strive to be better tomorrow than they are today. Improving the market is an extraordinary challenge that requires a carefully crafted approach. Optiver provides a collaborative working environment to tackle these challenges. In fact, it is this way of working that sets us apart.
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