Trading production engineer

Trading Platform Engineer – Systematic Technology

CW Talent Solutions

We are seeking a Trading Platform Engineer to join our Systematic Technology team, focused on the reliability, observability, and day-to-day support of a high-performance, low-latency trading platform.

This role is primarily centered on production engineering and trading support. The ideal candidate will have experience supporting business-critical, real-time systems in production, with strong skills in monitoring, incident response, troubleshooting, automation, system behavior analysis, and operational control. You will work closely with traders, Quantitative Researchers, and developers to ensure the platform is stable, well-monitored, and responsive to front-office needs.

Key Responsibilities

• Provide production support for a high-performance, low-latency trading platform in a live trading environment
• Monitor system health, trading workflows, and platform behavior to ensure reliability and rapid issue detection
• Respond to production incidents, drive triage and resolution, and coordinate effectively across trading, development, and infrastructure teams
• Support front-office users by investigating trading issues, answering workflow questions, and resolving time-sensitive production problems
• Own and improve monitoring, alerting, telemetry, and operational dashboards across the trading platform
• Develop and enhance automation, runbooks, and operational tools to improve supportability and reduce operational risk
• Perform root cause analysis on production issues and drive follow-up actions to improve platform resilience
• Support release processes, change management, and controlled production rollouts
• Monitor and investigate data quality, platform behavior, and workflow exceptions across trading and market data processes
• Partner with engineering teams to improve recoverability, observability, and operational readiness of trading applications
• Help define and maintain operational standards, support procedures, and production controls

Required Qualifications

• Strong experience in production engineering, SRE, or application support within real-time or trading environments
• Experience supporting business-critical production systems with a strong sense of urgency and ownership
• Strong understanding of monitoring, observability, alerting, incident management, and root cause analysis
• Experience supporting front-office users in a fast-paced, high-pressure environment
• Strong troubleshooting skills across application and system behavior in a Linux environment
• Strong attention to detail, operational discipline, and focus on platform stability
• Ability to work effectively with trading, Quantitative Researchers, and software engineering teams
• Scripting or automation experience in Python or similar language

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience supporting systematic trading, electronic trading, or market data platforms
• Familiarity with order lifecycle, execution workflows, and trading controls
• Experience with telemetry platforms, logging, metrics, and production diagnostics
• Exposure to low-latency environments and real-time operational support
• Proficiency in SQL and databases

Success in the Role

Strong ownership of production reliability and front-office support

Disciplined approach to incident response, monitoring, and operational control

Quick troubleshooting ability and clear communication under pressure

Strong partnership with trading, research, and engineering teams

Continuous focus on improving observability, stability, and support processes

CW Talent Solutions is a specialist executive search firm placing quantitative researchers, portfolio managers, and trading technology professionals at leading hedge funds and multi-manager platforms.

Interested? Please reach out with your CV and a brief note on your experience supporting production trading systems.