Data Site Reliability Engineer

Sydney - Australia

Monthly Salary: Not Disclosed

Posted on: 12 hours ago

Vacancies: 1 Vacancy

Job Summary

Who We Are

Optiver is a global market maker founded in Amsterdam with offices in London Chicago Austin New York Sydney Shanghai Hong Kong Singapore Taipei and Mumbai. Established in 1986 today we are a leading liquidity provider with close to 2000 employees in offices around the world united in our commitment to improve the market through competitive pricing execution and risk management. By providing liquidity on multiple exchanges across the world in various financial instruments we participate in the safeguarding of healthy and efficient markets. We provide liquidity to financial markets using our own capital at our own risk trading a wide range of products: listed derivatives cash equities ETFs bonds and foreign currencies.

Optivers Sydney office is one of the primary players within Asian markets trading a range of products. Established in 1996 were an active participant on the Hong Kong Korea Singapore Taiwan and Japan exchanges and act as Optivers APAC head office.

What Youll Do

Were building out our Data Reliability & Quality Engineering function in Sydney the Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) arm of our global data platform.

This team ensures that data is reliable accurate and available when its needed. Youll sit at the intersection of data engineering operations and market data monitoring critical pipelines improving system resilience and building automation to detect and prevent issues before they impact trading or research.

Youll play a key role in shaping how we ingest and deliver trusted high-quality data at scale supporting a growing data-driven global this role you will:

Monitor and optimize the performance and stability of data pipelines to meet SLAs.
Design and maintain data quality tests for accuracy consistency and completeness.
Investigate data incidents perform root-cause analysis and implement preventive measures.
Apply SRE principles to enhance reliability alerting and recovery mechanisms.
Develop automation and tooling to reduce manual intervention and improve scalability.
Collaborate with data engineers researchers and market data teams to align reliability goals with business priorities.

Who You Are

2 years of experience in data engineering site reliability engineering (SRE) or data operations.
Proficient in SQL ETL processes and at least one programming language (Python Scala or C).
Strong focus on automation system resilience and continuous improvement.
Passionate about data quality observability and performance optimization.
Structured and methodical in problem-solving with strong debugging skills.
Excellent communication skills and a collaborative proactive mindset.

Nice to have:

Experience with Databricks data observability platforms or distributed/cloud-based data systems.
Familiarity with alerting and monitoring tools (e.g. Grafana Prometheus Airflow or similar).
Exposure to financial data pipelines or low-latency trading environments.

What Youll Get

Youll join a culture of collaboration and excellence where youll be surrounded by curious thinkers and creative problem solvers. Driven by a passion for continuous improvement youll thrive in a supportive high-performing environment alongside talented colleagues working collectively to tackle some of the most complex problems in the financial markets.

In return for your expertise you will have access to a range of Optiver perks including:

A performance-based bonus structureunmatchedanywhere in the industry. We combine our profits across desks teams and offices into a global profit pool fostering a truly collaborative environment.
The chance to work alongside diverse and intelligent peers in a rewardingenvironment.
Training mentorship and personal development opportunities.
Daily breakfast lunch and an in-house barista.
Gym membership plus weekly in-house chair massages.
Regular social events including a company trip every two years.
Guided relocation a competitive relocation package and visa sponsorship where necessary.

If youre passionate about supporting reliable high-performance data systems and want your work to directly impact trading outcomes wed love to hear from you.

Apply now and help us build the next evolution of Optivers global data platform.

Optiver is committed to diversity and inclusion. We encourage applications from candidates of all backgrounds and welcome requests for reasonable adjustments during the process.

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Who We AreOptiver is a global market maker founded in Amsterdam with offices in London Chicago Austin New York Sydney Shanghai Hong Kong Singapore Taipei and Mumbai. Established in 1986 today we are a leading liquidity provider with close to 2000 employees in offices around the world united in our c...