DevSecOps Engineer

This is a fully remote position, open to applicants in Mexico.

📋 Description

• Design and enhance the primary trading architecture to optimize throughput, minimize latency, and ensure effective failure isolation.

• Develop and support venue gateways utilizing REST, WebSocket, and FIX protocols, encompassing order entry, cancellations, amendments, and drop copies.

• Manage order and execution processes, ensuring one order per client, aligning client order IDs with the venue, and guaranteeing no trades are missed or concealed.

• Oversee market data ingestion and normalization for over 10,000 instruments, incorporating redundancy and failover strategies between feeds and gateways.

• Automate the lifecycle of instruments, including listing, delisting, expirations, and option rotations.

• Facilitate the onboarding of new venues and instrument types, adapting to their unique characteristics so clients experience seamless integration.

• Act as the technical reference for engineers developing risk, ledger, and client applications on the core infrastructure.

• Lead incident response on the trading pathway and create runbooks for team members.

• Design, construct, deploy, and manage production systems that operate 24/7.

• Participate in the on-call rotation.

⛳️ Requirements

• A minimum of 7 years of experience in developing production backend systems, with at least 3 years in trading, market infrastructure, or exchange connectivity.

• Extensive knowledge of exchange or broker APIs (REST, WebSocket, FIX), order lifecycles, and market data management.

• Proficient in a systems or backend programming language commonly used in production trading environments, such as C++, Rust, Java, or Go.

• Strong understanding of distributed systems principles, including concurrency, idempotency, back-pressure, failover, and consistency.

• Proven experience in designing systems for high message throughput (tens of thousands per second and beyond) with millisecond latency.

• A history of taking ownership of a production system from end to end, including being on-call for a 24/7 market.

• Proficient in written and spoken English.

• Familiarity with crypto derivatives, including perpetuals, funding, options lifecycle, margin, and liquidation on platforms such as Binance, Deribit, or similar.

• Experience with Order Management Systems (OMS)/Execution Management Systems (EMS) or smart order routing.

• Background in functional programming or JVM languages (Clojure, Scala, Kotlin).

• Experience in leading architectural decisions across multiple teams.

• Must be eligible to work in Mexico.

🏝️ Benefits

• Competitive salary including a discretionary bonus.

• A remote-first team with a flexible work environment that emphasizes results.

• Annual company offsite retreats for connection, collaboration, and rejuvenation.

• Paid time off on birthdays to celebrate in your own way!

• Unlimited vacation policy.

• Supportive parental leave policy designed to prioritize family and well-being.