Trading Systems Engineer

Flow Traders is looking for an experienced Engineer who can elevate our GCPfocused platform-especially GKE-while maintaining strong Linux and networking fundamentals. Our trading platforms span both ultralowlatency baremetal systems and modern cloudnative services. This role bridges onprem and cloud environments strengthens global platform standards and drives highimpact improvements that enhance reliability reduce toil and support timesensitive trading workloads.

What you will do

• Serve as the USbased SME for our GCP platform with a strong focus on GKE workloadsworking within globally aligned standards while contributing your own expertise to improve Terraformdriven infrastructure and shape cloud architecture across regions
• Identify and drive engineering improvements by researching pain points reducing toil and delivering highimpact solutions across our cloud and trading infrastructure.
• Leverage automation and IaC to manage and optimize Linux and Kubernetes environments spanning baremetal virtualized and cloudnative systemsstreamlining workflows and reducing operational friction.
• Strengthen platform reliability by improving global monitoring and alerting frameworks incorporating adaptive and selfhealing mechanisms to elevate operational responsiveness.
• Act as a senior escalation point for complex Linux/Kubernetes/Cloud issues participating in oncall and ensuring thorough wellreasoned incident resolution.
• Provide regional technical leadership while collaborating with global stakeholders to define and implement platform standards architectures and largescale initiatives.
• Use AIassisted engineering tools to accelerate analysis troubleshooting documentation and operational automation.

What you need to succeed

• 710 years operating complex production environments spanning Linux Kubernetes and cloudnative infrastructure.
• Deep Cloud experience preferably within GKE or an equivalent stack (cluster ops workload orchestration networking security observability).
• Strong Terraform expertise for provisioning and managing secure scalable infrastructure.
• Solid Linux fundamentals performance tuning debugging networking virtualization and baremetal experience.
• Strong scripting skills in Python and Bash for automation tooling and operational workflows.
• Experience with Kafka or similar streaming/datapipeline technologies.
• Knowledge of Puppet/Ansible for configuration management and Foreman/Satellite for lifecycle and host management.
• Practical understanding of monitoring/observability (Prometheus/Grafana or similar) and modern alerting strategies.
• Strong Gitcentric workflows and comfort with modern CI/CD practices.
• Ability to lead and influence technical direction at a regional level while collaborating effectively with global colleagues.
• An entrepreneurial mindset proactively identifying gaps reducing toil and driving selfdirected engineering improvements.

At Flow Traders we acknowledge the importance of open and transparent communication whether it be with our employees our stakeholders or our local and global it comes to salary Flow Traders uses reliable market research to create base ranges. Where candidates will fall within the range depends on a few different factors including but not limited to level of experience location and specific skill also consider ourselves one global team and to demonstrate that all employees are eligible to share in the companys success through an annual discretionary variable remuneration allocated based on company group and individual performance and contribution.

Per NYC salary transparency law the total compensation for this role includes a base range of $190000 to $235000 plus annual discretionary variable remuneration.

Flow Traders does not accept unsolicited resumes from any professional staffing or search firms. All resumes and any other information identifying potential candidates submitted to any employee at Flow Traders via-email the Internet or directly without a valid and signed search agreement will be deemed free to contact by Flow Traders without any restrictions and no placement fee of any kind will be paid in the event the candidate is hired by Flow Traders.