Flow Traders is looking for a Trading Reliability Engineer to join our Digital Assets Tech Ops team in Hong Kong. This is a unique opportunity to be part of a team that ensures the performance, reliability, and scalability of our digital assets trading systems across both CeFi and DeFi environments.

While our digital assets team is primarily based in Amsterdam, we share responsibilities for the production landscape with a global team. As a key player in our trading ecosystem, you will be responsible for monitoring, optimizing, and enhancing critical trading applications and infrastructure while working closely with traders, developers, and performance engineers to drive continuous improvement.

What You Will Do

• Assist in maintaining the reliability and performance of our CeFi and DeFi trading production landscape
• Collaborate with traders, performance engineers, and infrastructure teams to identify and resolve bottlenecks impacting trading efficiency
• Support the connectivity onboarding for new exchanges and counterparties
• Monitor and troubleshoot trading-critical applications and infrastructure, escalating issues when necessary
• Contribute to observability, operability, and scalability solutions for our trading environment
• Implement and improve automated monitoring, alerting, and deployment pipelines
• Gather and analyze system metrics and logs to fine-tune trading performance and fault detection
• Support internal teams by enhancing the reliability of software and trading infrastructure through automation and system tuning
• Help improve the stability, security, and efficiency of our trading operations by working across low-latency trading platforms, APIs, and distributed systems
• Contribute to the development of internal tooling and automation to improve operational efficiency and reduce manual intervention

What you Need to Succeed

• 5+ years of experience in Reliability Engineering, SRE, or Production Support for mission-critical systems
• Programming skills in Python, Bash, or Go
• Expertise with Unix/Linux environments
• Interest in cryptocurrencies, blockchain technologies, or DeFi trading protocols
• Networking knowledge (TCP/IP, routing, multicast, etc.)
• Security-first mindset, with an understanding of best practices for safeguarding production environments
• Problem-solving mindset and willingness to troubleshoot technical issues in a fast-paced, high-pressure trading environment
• Good communication skills and ability to collaborate across trading, technology, and operations teams
• A proactive approach with a willingness to learn and improve continuously

Nice to Have

• Exposure to AWS, GCP, and AliCloud cloud environments
• Basic familiarity with Kubernetes, Docker, Kafka, and Ansible
• Interest in high-frequency trading or low-latency environments
• Experience with cryptocurrencies, blockchain technologies, or DeFi trading protocols

What We Offer

We like to think that talent grows at Flow and stays at Flow. To ensure this, we provide our employees with an extensive onboarding program, access to Flow Academy, the best working environment, the latest technology and continuous support. We go out of our way to retain the small business feeling with which we started and stimulate innovation and collaboration through teamwork and our non-hierarchical approach. We offer competitive salary, annual discretionary bonus and other fantastic perks and benefits, such as:

• Flow Academy for continuous learning and opportunities to attend domain-related conferences
• Comprehensive health insurance coverage
• In-house lounge with a bar, pool table and console games
• Daily catered breakfast and lunch with healthy snacks and drinks available throughout the day
• In-house hairdresser and massage therapist
• Personal trainers, weekly boot camps and a subsidized gym membership
• Annual company trip and a variety of events throughout the year
• Global rotations between our offices world wide
• and more!

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