Lead Infrastructure Engineer (Python)

Overview

As Lead Cloud and Infrastructure Engineer you design, build, and sustain robust, scalable infrastructure automation for our algorithmic trading platform. You’ll lead a small team, partner with cross-functional groups, and drive SRE-driven improvements to reduce risk and cost. You will own architectural decisions for Linux-based electronic trading infrastructure and mentor engineers to raise the team’s capabilities. This role combines technical leadership with hands-on delivery in a fast-paced, globally distributed environment.

Pay / Benefits

• flexible working arrangements

Responsibilities

• Design, implement and support new infrastructure solutions for algorithmic trading
• Collaborate with development, sysadmin, and infrastructure teams to reduce costs and manage technology risk
• Serve as SME for Linux-based electronic trading infrastructure
• Mentor and lead engineers, providing technical direction
• Provide technical leadership for a small team of engineers and SREs
• Drive continuous infrastructure improvement via reviews, blameless post-mortems and SRE practices

Key requirements

• Advanced knowledge of Python and software engineering concepts
• Strong understanding of core Unix components and OS customization
• Experience architecting large-scale, robust systems
• Domain expertise in infrastructure automation and integration
• Ability to describe architectural trade-offs quantitatively
• Linux and CLI development experience
• Familiarity with debugging tools (tcpdump, strace)
• Experience with modern development tools (git, Jenkins, TDD, CI)
• Lifecycle ownership of project components from design to support
• Proven technical leadership and ability to mentor others
• Go programming knowledge useful

• leadership and mentorship
• independent problem-solving
• effective collaboration with cross-functional teams
• Python
• Unix/Linux
• infrastructure automation

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