Trading Platform Engineer, Systematic Technology

Balyasny Asset Management

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Hong Kong, China
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58 days ago
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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.

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TL;DR · Trading Platform Engineer, Systematic Technology

The Trading Platform Engineer 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 individual will build and enhance automation tools, runbooks, and operational dashboards while investigating data quality and workflow exceptions for front-office users. Key technical requirements include experience in Linux environments, Python scripting, and SQL database proficiency. The role addresses the critical need for stable trading workflows and execution processes within a systematic trading context. Candidates must demonstrate expertise in monitoring, telemetry, and production diagnostics to maintain high-performance systems while collaborating with traders and quantitative researchers.

What you'll do

  • Provide production support for a high-performance, low-latency trading platform 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 with trading, development, and infrastructure teams.
  • Resolve time-sensitive production problems and workflow questions for front-office users.
  • Develop and enhance automation tools, runbooks, and operational dashboards to improve supportability.
  • Perform root cause analysis on production issues to drive improvements in platform resilience.
  • Manage release processes, change management, and controlled production rollouts.
  • Investigate data quality and workflow exceptions across trading and market data processes.

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 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 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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