Job Overview
Optiver is looking for an experienced Production Software Engineer with responsibilities for building our infrastructure and automating our trading production environment. 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 overhead. Your contributions have the potential to directly enable a faster and safer innovation cycle for Optiver.
What you’ll do
- Design and build deployment pipelines that improve how changes enter production, from validation through to rollout and verification, considering efficiency, risk management and safety of the process
- Build and maintain production environment monitoring infrastructure, focusing on incident detection, operations visibility, and alerting
- Develop tooling and automation to reduce operational friction, improve environment consistency, and increase reliability
- Collaborate with stakeholders across operations, development, and infrastructure to establish and refine feedback loops across all aspects of production management
- Collaborate with engineers in our global offices to align our production environments
- Mentor junior team members and help foster the growth of the next generation of engineers
- Take operational ownership of production sub-systems
- Own your work end-to-end: from understanding the business problem through design, implementation, testing, deployment, and monitoring
What you'll get
You’ll join a culture of collaboration and excellence, surrounded by curious thinkers and creative problem-solvers. Motivated by a passion for continuous improvement, you’ll thrive in a supportive, high-performing environment alongside talented colleagues, collectively tackling some of the toughest challenges in the financial markets.
In addition, you’ll receive
- The opportunity to work alongside best-in-class professionals from over 40 different countries
- Highly competitive compensation package
- Global profit-sharing pool and performance-based bonus structure
- 401(k) match up to 50%
- Comprehensive health, mental, dental, vision, disability, and life coverage
- 25 paid vacation days alongside market holidays
- Extensive office perks, including breakfast, lunch and snacks, regular social events, clubs, sporting leagues and more
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.
- Bachelor’s degree in CS or related technical field
- Strong programming ability (Python at a minimum; Golang/Rust would be beneficial) and software engineering principles.
- Broad understanding of the full technology stack including server hardware, networking, Linux, databases, web server