Our Client is a proprietary systematic trading firm that provides liquidity to the global cryptocurrency markets. They run a suite of high frequency, low latency, delta neutral market making strategies on a wide variety of exchanges that reliably deliver alpha in all market conditions.

They are seeking a DevOps Engineer to join their rapidly growing team and help manage and grow a suite of systematic strategies that trades tens of billions of dollars a month.

You will play a crucial role in helping to build, monitor, debug, and maintain the infrastructure behind our clients trading strategies. As a result, you will also have a direct and measurable impact on P&L and commensurately share in the upside of the firm.

Expectations

The ideal candidate:

• Exhibits strong logical reasoning
• Possesses strong quantitative skills alongside attention to detail
• Displays an entrepreneurial mindset with high energy and a can-do attitude
• Enjoys problem solving and has no fear of learning and doing detailed work to get to desired results
• Prefers simplicity and pragmatism, likes to take a lean and iterative approach to solving problems
• Embraces 80/20 thinking
• Proactively seeks out ways to automate and improve areas of the business they are assigned to
• Uses a deeply data-backed approach to decision making and communicating ideas
• Clearly communicates how data implies a particular conclusion; considers and explains alternative explanations for what the data shows
• Thrives in a culture of passionate learning and teaching
• Loves to reflect on challenges and improve process
• Possesses humility and expresses kindness to self and others
• Keeps on top of crypto industry news and updates
• Must be currently located in Hong Kong
• Collaborates effectively with trading and engineering team members to define and refine technical requirements and then execute on them
• Cares about solving big, systemic problems. You look beyond the surface to understand root causes
• Wants to be part of an organization with a transparent and agile environment where you can communicate freely and openly

Qualifications and Requirements

• 1+ years of full time technical experience, ideally in DevOps roles
• Experience administering Linux systems; intimate familiarity on the command line
• Very comfortable using vi(m)
• Python 3.9+
• Git and GitHub
• PostgreSQL (especially with query performance tuning)
• Solid grasp of best practices in security principles
• Deep understanding of AWS products (EC2, VPC, VGW, RDS)
• Network / routing
• Latency testing
• Strong written and verbal English language skills
• Love of Rust

Nice to Haves

• Have experience in a quantitative trading firm (either tradfi or crypto native)
• Have experience coding own trading strategies
• Ability to use Github or other source control management to understand code diffs
• Experience and understanding of the various major crypto exchanges

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