Senior DevOps Engineer

Singapore - Singapore

Monthly Salary: Not Disclosed

Posted on: 3 days ago

Vacancies: 1 Vacancy

Job Summary

The Role

We are looking for an experienced DevOps Engineer to design operate and optimize ultra-low-latency infrastructure supporting high-frequency trading market-making and real-time risk systems across TradFi and Web3 venues.

This role sits directly between trading quant and systems engineering with ownership over reliability performance and observability of latency-sensitive trading systems. You will work on bare-metal cloud and hybrid environments where milliseconds and microseconds matter.

Responsibilities

Build and maintain reliable low-latency infrastructure for trading and market-making systems
Support production systems for order execution market data hedging and risk management
Help ensure systems remain stable and available during trading hours through sensible redundancy and failover
Work on system and network performance tuning (e.g. kernel settings NUMA IRQ affinity TCP/UDP tuning) as needed
Participate in performance and latency investigations across the trading stack
Help profile and understand system behaviour including:
Order and market data latency
Risk and inventory updates
CPU memory disk and network usage
Occasionally visit data centers to support low-latency setups hardware checks and basic latency measurements
Manage containerized and non-containerized workloads (Docker Kubernetes bare-metal)
Automate infrastructure and operations using Infrastructure as Code tools

Requirements

5 years of experience in DevOps SRE or Platform Engineering roles
Comfort working with Linux systems networking and performance troubleshooting
Experience diagnosing CPU memory storage and I/O issues in production systems
Hands-on experience with Docker and Kubernetes (or similar tools)
Familiarity with CI/CD pipelines (e.g. GitHub Actions GitLab CI Jenkins)
Experience with Infrastructure as Code (e.g. Terraform Pulumi Ansible or similar)
Experience working with a mix of bare-metal on-premise and cloud environments (AWS GCP etc.)
Familiarity with observability tools such as Prometheus Grafana and Loki
Interest in crypto trading systems or decentralized finance (deep expertise not required)
A thoughtful problem-solver who enjoys learning and improving systems over time
A collaborative mindset and comfort working in a fast-moving small team

About Tokka Labs

Tokka Labs is a proprietary trading firm with a focus on close collaboration rigorous research and cutting-edge technology. We are market makers searchers and solvers for top protocols on the most popular blockchains in the world. We design and implement our own trading systems and strategies to provide liquidity in the most diverse and challenging environments. At the core of it all lies our unwavering commitment to pushing boundaries of decentralized finance and we are always on the lookout for like-minded individuals to join us on this journey.

Tokka Labs does not accept unsolicited resumes.

Any form of candidate introduction shared without the prior approval of the talent acquisition team will be deemed free to contact by Tokka Labs without restriction or liability. No placement fee of any kind will be paid in the event the identified candidate is hired by Tokka Labs.

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The RoleWe are looking for an experienced DevOps Engineer to design operate and optimize ultra-low-latency infrastructure supporting high-frequency trading market-making and real-time risk systems across TradFi and Web3 venues.This role sits directly between trading quant and systems engineering wit...