Production Software Engineer - Senior/Staff/Principal

Posted 6d ago

Pay not disclosedSydney, AustraliaOn-site · Job
testing
automation
trading
risk management
infrastructure
Responsibilities
  • Develop solutions using third-party and in-house technologies
  • Own changes end-to-end, from understanding the business problem to monitoring
  • Support the team on delivery, including requirements, architecture, or implementation
Requirements
  • Extensive experience in software engineering, particularly designing and delivering systems at scale
  • Deep knowledge of software systems, operating environments, and how distributed applications run in production
  • Strong improvement mindset, with the ability to simplify complex systems and reduce operational overhead
Full description from the employer

WHO WE ARE Optiver is a global market maker founded in Amsterdam, with offices in London, Chicago, Austin, New York, Sydney, Shanghai, Hong Kong, Singapore, Taipei and Mumbai. Established in 1986, today we are a leading liquidity provider, with close to 2,000 employees in offices around the world, united in our commitment to improve the market through competitive pricing, execution and risk management. By providing liquidity on multiple exchanges across the world in various financial instruments we participate in the safeguarding of healthy and efficient markets. We provide liquidity to financial markets using our own capital, at our own risk, trading a wide range of products: listed derivatives, cash equities, ETFs, bonds and foreign currencies. Optiver’s Sydney office is one of the primary players within Asian markets, trading a range of products. Established in 1996, we're an active participant on the Hong Kong, Korea, Singapore, Taiwan and Japan exchanges, and act as Optiver’s APAC head office. WHAT YOU'LL DO We're seeking a senior/staff/principal level engineer to join our Sydney team. The Production Software Engineering team is responsible for all infrastructure, systems, tooling and workflows that enable our engineers to deploy, operate and observe our vast network of highly specialised and performance-sensitive trading systems. This team occupies a wide intersection of stakeholders across the business from operations to development, specifically focusing on scaling up change, increasing robustness, and reducing friction. Your contributions have the potential to directly enable a faster and safer innovation cycle for Optiver. • Our Production engineers develop solutions using a mix of third party and in-house technologies, owning their changes end-to-end, including understanding the business problem, design, implementation, testing, deployment and monitoring. You will work closely with your team to support them on delivery where you see fit, such as requirements, architecture or implementation. WHO YOU ARE • You’re a systems-minded engineer who thrives at the intersection of software, infrastructure, and operations. You’re passionate about enabling fast, safe change — and understand the value of clear standards, scalable workflows, and high-trust automation in a production context. You must have: • Extensive experience in software engineering, particularly designing and delivering systems at scale • Deep knowledge of software systems, operating environments, and how distributed applications run in production • A strong improvement mindset, with the ability to simplify complex systems and reduce op

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