Site Reliability Engineer (SRE)
Full-time
Company Description
BHFT is a proprietary algorithmic trading firm. Our team manages the full trading cycle, from software development to creating and coding strategies and algorithms.
Our trading operations cover key exchanges. The firm trades across a broad range of asset classes, including equities, equity derivatives, options, commodity futures, rates futures, etc. We employ a diverse and growing array of algorithmic trading strategies, utilizing both High-Frequency Trading (HFT) and Medium-Frequency Trading (MFT) approaches.
Looking ahead, we are expanding into new markets and products. As a dynamic company, we continuously experiment with new markets, tools, and technologies.
We’ve got a team of 200+ professionals, with a strong emphasis on technology—70% are technical specialists in development, infrastructure, testing, and analytics spheres. The remaining part of the team supports our business operations, such as Risks, Compliance, Legal, Operations and more.
With a strong focus on innovation and performance, BHFT is actively expanding its presence in traditional financial markets. We value a results-driven culture, emphasizing collaboration, transparency, and constant improvement, all while offering the flexibility of remote work and a globally distributed team.
Job Description
We are looking for a Site Reliability Engineer who will be responsible for ensuring the reliable operation of our platform, working with metrics to improve production process efficiency, and participating in testing new product versions.
Responsibilities:
Production Stability Management: Ensure continuous compliance with external regulatory requirements and internal standards, including risk, security, technology, and trader needs. Support and automate validation and monitoring processes for adherence to necessary standards.
Incident Monitoring & Management: Develop and improve monitoring and alerting systems to detect anomalies in key production metrics. Implement rapid response mechanisms and efficient solutions to maintain strategy performance.
Release & Change Management: enforce standards for managing releases and changes to minimize deployment risks. Implement strict acceptance testing for all releases.
Process Management: Develop and maintain Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs) for the team, manage task queues, and organize shift schedules to ensure continuous support and high availability of trading strategies.
Integration Projects: Lead initiatives to connect with new exchanges, brokers, and trading platforms, ensuring smooth and secure service integration.
Technical Performance Optimization: Continuously improve system availability, resilience (MTTR, MTBF), and latency reduction while optimizing data exchange performance and order routing to maximize profitability.
Qualifications
Requirements:
Deep understanding of trading processes and market microstructure, including colocation trading on native exchange protocols and algorithmic trading. Experience in monitoring, alerting systems, and incident management for high-load environments. Knowledge of regulatory compliance and security standards. Proficiency in monitoring and incident management tools such as Grafana, ClickHouse, Prometheus, Opsgenie, Grafana OnCall, PagerDuty, etc. Experience developing and managing SOPs and KPIs for service teams. Experience managing integration projects with brokers and exchanges.
Strong technical skill set, including:
Linux systems administration and optimization. TCP/UDP multicast networking. FIX-based and native exchange protocols Colocation infrastructure setup and management. Python scripting for automation and monitoring. English proficiency at C1 level or higher.
Site Reliability Engineer (SRE)
Dubai - United Arab Emirates * Full-time
