Trading Reliability Engineer - Digital Assets

Flow Traders is looking for a Trading Reliability Engineer to join our Digital Assets Tech Ops team in Amsterdam. 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

• Maintain and enhance the reliability and performance of our CeFi and DeFi trading technologies.
• Collaborate with traders, performance engineers, and infrastructure teams to identify and resolve bottlenecks impacting trading efficiency.
• Implement new connectivity onboarding for exchanges and counterparties.
• Monitor and troubleshoot trading-critical applications and infrastructure, proactively resolving issues before they impact trading.
• Develop and maintain 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.
• Partner with internal teams to enhance the reliability of software and trading infrastructure through code reviews, automation, and system tuning.
• 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

• 2+ years of experience in Reliability Engineering, SRE, or Production Support for mission-critical systems
• Proficiency in Python, Bash, or Go
• Strong experience with Unix/Linux environments
• Hands-on experience with observability and monitoring tools (Prometheus, Grafana, ELK, etc.)
• Interest in cryptocurrencies, blockchain technologies, or DeFi trading protocols
• Security-first mindset, with an understanding of best practices for safeguarding production environments
• Problem-solving skills and the ability to troubleshoot complex technical issues in a fast-paced, high-pressure trading environment
• Excellent communication skills and the ability to collaborate effectively across trading, technology, and operations teams
• A strong sense of ownership, urgency, and continuous improvement 

Nice to Have

• Experience with AWS, GCP, and AliCloud cloud environments
• Familiarity with Kubernetes, Docker, Kafka, and Ansible
• Knowledge of high-frequency trading or low-latency environments
• Experience with cryptocurrencies, blockchain technologies, or DeFi trading protocols

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.