Trading Platform Engineer, Systematic Technology

Balyasny Asset Management

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Work type
On-site
Location
Chicago, ILLondon, United KingdomNew York, NY
Salary
$150,000–$250,000 / yr
Posted
58 days ago
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Confirmed live 2 days ago

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This role $200k
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This role pays more than 65% of similar roles. Most pay $151,000–$214,575 — the shaded band above. At the midpoint, this role pays about $200k versus about $183k for comparable roles.

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About Balyasny Asset Management

Balyasny Asset Management (BAM) is a global multi-manager hedge fund offering diversified investment strategies across equities, macro, commodities, and systematic trading.

Balyasny Asset Management currently has 59 open roles on FindRole.

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TL;DR · Trading Platform Engineer, Systematic Technology

The Trading Platform Engineer, Systematic Technology joins the Systematic Technology team to ensure the reliability, observability, and day-to-day support of a high-performance, low-latency trading platform. This role focuses on production engineering and trading support within a live environment where the engineer monitors system health, manages incident response, and performs root cause analysis to improve platform resilience. The candidate will build and enhance automation tools, runbooks, and operational dashboards while investigating data quality and workflow exceptions. Key responsibilities include supporting front-office users and collaborating with Quantitative Researchers and developers to maintain stability. Required skills include experience in production engineering or SRE within real-time environments, Linux system troubleshooting, and Python scripting. Preferred qualifications include familiarity with SQL, order lifecycles, execution workflows, and telemetry platforms for monitoring market data processes and trading controls.

What you'll do

  • Provide production support for high-performance, low-latency trading platforms in live environments.
  • Monitor system health, trading workflows, and platform behavior to ensure reliability and rapid issue detection.
  • Lead incident triage and resolution while coordinating across trading, development, and infrastructure teams.
  • Resolve time-sensitive technical issues and workflow questions for front-office users.
  • Develop and enhance automation scripts, runbooks, and operational tools to reduce risk.
  • Perform root cause analysis on production incidents to improve platform resilience.
  • Manage monitoring, alerting, telemetry, and operational dashboards across the trading platform.
  • Oversee data quality investigations and monitor market data processes for workflow exceptions.

What we're looking for

  • Experience in production engineering, SRE, or application support within real-time or trading environments.
  • Experience supporting business-critical production systems with a 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 environment.
  • Strong troubleshooting skills across application and system behavior in a Linux environment.
  • Scripting or automation experience in Python or similar.
  • Experience supporting systematic trading, electronic trading, or market data platforms (preferred).
  • Familiarity with order lifecycle, execution workflows, and trading controls (preferred).

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