Trading Platform Engineer

Posted 14 Days Ago
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Kraków, Małopolskie, POL
In-Office
Entry level
Blockchain • Quantitative Trading
The Role
Build and improve low-latency trading platform tooling, monitoring, alerting, deployment automation, and observability. Support production incidents, maintain essential services, tune kernel-bypass networking and end-to-end latency, establish performance baselines, and participate in an on-call rotation. The role requires close collaboration with trading desks and service owners in a Linux-based environment.
Summary Generated by Built In

As a Trading Platform Engineer you'll keep the systems that carry our orders to market fast, observable and dependable. You'll build the tooling the trading platform runs on, own the latency path end to end, and work alongside the desk as the first line of response when production issues arise.

What you'll be doing
  • Develop new features and improvements for our trading platform tools.
  • Build the monitoring layer for essential trading services, from health dashboards to alerting on time-critical paths.
  • Provide support during production incidents: verify compute, connectivity, market data, revert to last known good configuration, triage and escalate to service owners where needed, and fix trading platform tooling directly.
  • Own routine maintenance of essential services (version rollouts, configuration changes) and build the tooling that automates it.
  • Tune the end-to-end latency path, including kernel-bypass networking.
  • Establish and maintain latency baselines, so regressions are surfaced by monitoring before they reach the desk.
  • This role includes participation in an on-call rota shared across the team.
The Ideal Candidate
  • Experience building or supporting low-latency trading infrastructure in a Linux environment, at a prop trading firm, hedge fund, exchange or crypto trading firm.
  • Hands-on with performance tuning below the application layer: kernel bypass (DPDK or similar), NUMA and CPU affinity, network stack and buffer sizing.
  • Strong automation and scripting skills (Python, Bash or Go), and comfortable working with modern Python or C# codebases.
  • Experience with observability and alerting tooling (Prometheus, Grafana or equivalent), and a considered approach to alert design.
  • Calm and methodical under production pressure — able to own an incident and escalate clearly.
  • Treats documentation and reproducibility as part of the work.
About Caladan
Caladan brings rationality to strange and unruly markets. We explore the frontier of finance, seek out new opportunities, and make markets more efficient and honest wherever we go. We support exchanges, tokens, and institutional investors with on-exchange liquidity, DeFi expertise, treasury solutions, and investments. Since 2017 we've been a pioneer in crypto market-making, powering over $170B in annual transactions across 1000+ assets.

Skills Required

  • Experience building or supporting low-latency trading infrastructure in a Linux environment
  • Experience at a proprietary trading firm, hedge fund, exchange, or crypto trading firm
  • Hands-on experience with kernel bypass technologies such as DPDK
  • Experience with NUMA, CPU affinity, network stack tuning, and buffer sizing
  • Strong automation and scripting skills in Python, Bash, or Go
  • Comfort working with modern Python or C# codebases
  • Experience with observability and alerting tools such as Prometheus or Grafana
  • Ability to manage production incidents calmly and escalate clearly
  • Commitment to documentation and reproducibility
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The Company
HQ: Singapore
73 Employees
Year Founded: 2017

What We Do

Caladan is a technology-driven trading group that transacts over $2B daily in cryptoassets on 40+ exchanges, both centralized and decentralized. Since 2017, we have consistently generated exceptional returns (aka alpha). We were one of the first movers in quantitative trading on the blockchain, and today we operate thousands of algorithms 24/7 on a globally distributed network of trading servers. We are actively hiring for engineers and strategists - http://caladan.xyz

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