Senior Software Engineer - Devops
Who We Are
FalconX is a leading digital asset platform serving institutional clients, offering a wide range of services including trade execution, credit and treasury management, prime solutions, and market making. With a global presence, top-tier technology, and deep liquidity, we have facilitated over $1 trillion in client transactions. Our products and services are compliant, regulated, and trusted.
We are a diverse team comprising engineers, product developers, sales and trading professionals, operations specialists, and business strategists. Each team member brings entrepreneurial experience from reputable companies like Google, Apple, Paypal, Citadel, Bridgewater, and Goldman Sachs. Our core values drive us: Think big, achieve bold results, foster teamwork, iterate quickly, and embody an entrepreneurial spirit.
Learning is a fundamental focus for us. While outcomes are crucial, we believe that continuous learning from both success and failure leads to sustained growth and success. In an evolving industry, there are countless opportunities for experimentation, growth, and collective learning.
Role Responsibilities
- Contribute to a devops team dedicated to developing internal platforms.
- Collaborate with internal teams to enhance system reliability, scalability, and security.
- Enhance infrastructure quality to support the platform.
- Automate building and managing systems, infrastructure, and applications.
- Provide operational support to internal teams working on the platform.
- Implement improvements for higher efficiency, reduced latency, and faster system deployment.
- Engage in sustainable incident response practices and conduct blameless postmortems.
- Share on-call responsibilities with the engineering team and serve as an escalation point for service incidents.
Minimum Qualifications
- Bachelor’s degree with over 5 years of experience in Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) or DevOps Engineering.
- Proficiency in programming languages such as C, C++, Java, Python, or Go.
- Knowledge of Linux internals and bash scripting.
- Strong skills in observability, debugging, performance tuning, and willingness to delve into troubleshooting any stack layer.
- Experience managing infrastructure with providers like AWS.
- Expertise in Cloud Native technologies like Kubernetes and Docker.
- Basic understanding of RDBMS systems like MySQL.
- Familiarity with networking protocols such as TCP/IP.
Preferred Qualifications
- Proficiency in automation tools like Ansible and Terraform.
- Skills in devops tooling including Jenkins, ArgoCD, and GitHub Actions.
- Experience with advanced observability and monitoring stacks like Grafana.
- Ability to design, analyze, and troubleshoot large-scale distributed systems.
- Strong problem-solving skills, effective communication, and a proactive approach.
- Extensive experience supporting production systems as an SRE.
- Background in setting up monitoring stack for process and Docker-based environments.
Inclusivity Statement
FalconX is dedicated to creating a diverse, inclusive, equitable, and safe work environment for all individuals. Our positions are open to candidates from various backgrounds, and we encourage everyone interested to apply regardless of whether they meet all background requirements, skills, or experiences listed.
As a commitment to inclusivity, FalconX seeks to acknowledge that the EEOC survey presents limited response options. While federal requirements dictate the language used, we value your authentic response to our voluntary survey questions regarding identity.
FalconX is an equal opportunity employer that prohibits discrimination based on race, color, religion, national origin, ancestry, ethnicity, gender (including pregnancy and gender identity), age, disability, veteran status, genetic information, citizenship, or other legally protected characteristics.
Applicants with disabilities may request reasonable accommodations under the Americans with Disabilities Act and other applicable laws. These accommodations ensure equal employment opportunities without placing undue burden on FalconX. If you need assistance during the application process, please contact FalconX’s People team at recruiting@falconx.io.