Trading Systems Engineer

This role is focused on elevating Flow Traders’ Google Cloud Platform-focused platform-especially GKE-while maintaining strong linux and networking fundamentals. Our trading platforms span both ultra-low-latency bare-metal systems and modern cloud-native services. This role bridges on-prem and cloud environments, strengthens global platform standards, and drives high-impact improvements that enhance reliability, reduce toil, and support time-sensitive trading workloads. What you will do

• Serve as the US-based SME for our Google Cloud Platform platform with a strong focus on GKE workloads-working within globally aligned standards while contributing your own expertise to improve Terraform-driven infrastructure and shape cloud architecture across regions
• Identify and drive engineering improvements by researching pain points, reducing toil, and delivering high-impact solutions across our cloud and trading infrastructure.
• Leverage automation and IaC to manage and optimize Linux and Kubernetes environments spanning bare-metal, virtualized, and cloud-native systems-streamlining workflows and reducing operational friction.
• Strengthen platform reliability by improving global monitoring and alerting frameworks, incorporating adaptive and self-healing mechanisms to elevate operational responsiveness.
• Act as a senior escalation point for complex Linux/Kubernetes/Cloud issues, participating in on-call and ensuring thorough, well-reasoned incident resolution.
• Provide regional technical leadership while collaborating with global stakeholders to define and implement platform standards, architectures, and large-scale initiatives.
• Use AI-assisted engineering tools to accelerate analysis, troubleshooting, documentation, and operational automation.

• 7-10+ years operating complex production environments spanning Linux, Kubernetes, and cloud-native infrastructure.
• Deep Cloud experience, preferably within GKE or an equivalent stack (cluster ops, workload orchestration, networking, security, observability).
• Strong Terraform expertise for provisioning and managing secure, scalable infrastructure.
• Solid Linux fundamentals - performance tuning, debugging, networking, virtualization, and bare-metal experience.
• Strong scripting skills in Python and Bash for automation, tooling, and operational workflows.
• Experience with Kafka or similar streaming/data-pipeline technologies.
• Knowledge of Puppet/Ansible for configuration management and Foreman/Satellite for lifecycle and host management.
• Practical understanding of monitoring/observability (PrometheGrafana or similar) and modern alerting strategies.
• Strong Git-centric workflows and comfort with modern CI/CD practices.
• Ability to lead and influence technical direction at a regional level while collaborating effectively with global colleagues.
• An entrepreneurial mindset - proactively identifying gaps, reducing toil, and driving self-directed engineering improvements.

Per NYC salary transparency law, the total compensation for this role includes a base range of $160,000 to $215,000 plus annual discretionary variable remuneration.