Software Development Engineer II - Devops

Who are we 

FalconX is the most advanced digital asset platform for institutions. We provide trade execution, credit & treasury management, prime offering and market making services. Given our global operations, industry-leading technology and deep liquidity, we have facilitated client transactions of $1 trillion in volume. Our products & services are regulated, compliant and trusted.


We prioritize learning. Outcomes are mission-critical, but we also believe that learning in success and in failure will drive our continued success. Our industry is emergent - theres no shortage of experiments to get involved with and to continue growing and learning together.

Responsibilities
 Be part of a devops team, dedicated to building internal platforms.
 Work closely with internal teams to improve the system reliability, scalability and security.
 Engage in and improve the infrastructure quality supporting the platform.
 Build and manage systems, infrastructure and applications through automation.
 Provide operational support to internal teams working on the platform.
 Work on improvements to bring in high efficiency, reduce latency, deploy systems faster.
 Practice sustainable incident response and blameless postmortems.
 Together with your engineering team, you will share an on-call rotation and be an escalation contact for service incidents.

Minimum Qualification
 Bachelors with 3-5 years of working experience as Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) / Devops Engineer
 Experience with programming in at least one of the following languages: C, C++, Java, Python, or Go.
 Knowledge of Linux internals and bash scripting.
 Strong skills around observability, debugging and performance tuning, willing to dive into understanding, debugging, and improving any layer of the stack.
 Strong experience in managing infrastructure with providers like AWS.
 Strong experience in Cloud Native technologies in kubernetes, docker etc.
 Basic knowledge of RDBMS systems like mysql.
 Understanding of networking protocols such as TCP/IP.

Preferred Qualification
 Expertise in automation tools like Ansible, Terraform.
 Expertise in devops tooling like Jenkins, ArgoCD, github actions
 Expertise in advanced observability (USE-RED signals, Tracing, front end observability etc) and monitoring stacks, preferably Grafana stack.
 Expertise in designing, analyzing, and troubleshooting large-scale distributed systems.
 Systematic problem-solving approach, coupled with effective communication skills and a sense of drive.
 Extensive experience in supporting production systems as SRE.
 Experience in setting up monitoring stack for process and docker based environments.

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Inclusivity Statement

FalconX is committed to building a diverse, inclusive, equitable, and safe workspace for all people. Our roles are intended for people from all walks of life. We encourage all those interested in applying to our organization to submit an application regardless if you are missing some of the listed background requirements, skills, or experiences!

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