Trading Operations Engineer

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.

What You'll Get

You’ll join a culture of collaboration and excellence, where you’ll be surrounded by curious thinkers and creative problem solvers. Motivated by a passion for continuous improvement, you’ll thrive in a supportive, high-performing environment alongside talented colleagues, working collectively to tackle the toughest problems in the financial markets.

In addition, you’ll receive:

• A performance-based bonus structure, enabling all of our employees to benefit from our global profit pool.
• The opportunity to work alongside best-in-class professionals from over 50 different countries.
• 25 paid vacation days in your first year, increasing to 30 from your second year onwards.
• Training opportunities, discounts on health insurance, and fully paid first-class commuting expenses.
• Extensive office perks, including breakfast, lunch and dinner, world-class barista coffee, in-house physio and chair massages, organized sports and leisure activities, and Friday afternoon drinks.
• Training and continuous learning opportunities, including access to conferences and tech events.

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.

Key skills/competency

• Trading Operations Engineer
• Distributed Systems
• Linux
• Networking
• CI/CD
• Python Scripting
• Databases
• Troubleshooting
• Production Support
• System Architecture