Senior Infrastructure Engineer - Trading Systems

Who are we?

FalconX is a pioneering team of operators, investors, and builders committed to revolutionizing institutional access to the crypto markets. Operating at the intersection of traditional finance and 
cutting-edge technology, FalconX addresses the industry's foremost challenges: Navigating the digital asset market can be complex and fragmented, with limited products and services that support trading strategies, structures, and liquidity found in conventional financial markets. As a comprehensive solution for all digital asset strategies from start to scale, FalconX operates as the connective tissue empowering clients with seamless navigation through the ever-
evolving cryptocurrency landscape.

• Low-Latency Architecture: Design, provision, and maintain ultra-low latency AWS and hybrid network topologies, including VPCs, exchange gateways, and regional deployment expansions.

• Performance Tuning: Optimize Linux OS kernels and compute performance using CPU isolation (isolcpus), AWS Cluster Placement Groups, and enhanced networking (ENA/ENI).

• Infrastructure as Code: Drive infrastructure automation, provisioning, and configuration management using Terraform and Ansible.

• Platform Scaling: Architect infrastructure to support expanding Exchange Market Making (EMM), Project Market Making (PMM), and TradFi exchange convergences.

• Observability & Reliability: Build telemetry and monitoring pipelines using Grafana Cloud and Alloy to ensure continuous visibility into platform performance.

• Technical Leadership: Guide the technical roadmap, mentor junior engineers, and act as an escalation lead for critical system incidents.

Key Qualifications

• 5+ years of experience in Infrastructure Engineering, Systems Engineering, or SRE, with a focus on low-latency electronic trading environments.

• Deep Linux Internals Expertise: Advanced experience with kernel-level performance tuning, memory management, and network I/O optimization (isolcpus, network profiling, ring buffers).

• AWS Low-Latency Design: Demonstrated experience leveraging AWS low-latency constructs (Placement Groups, ENA/ENI, high-performance EC2 instance optimization).

• Trading Protocols & Infrastructure: Experience with FIX protocol, Aeron messaging, or low-latency colocation connectivity.

• HFT & Market Workflows: Familiarity with high-frequency trading (HFT) workflows or crypto exchange API integrations.

• Automation Mastery: Strong proficiency in Terraform for cloud infrastructure and Ansible for OS configuration and patching.

• Networking Fundamentals: Deep understanding of physical network topologies, TCP/IP, UDP, and low-latency network routing.

• Containers & CI/CD: Hands-on experience with Docker, Docker Compose, Jenkins, and modern deployment pipelines.

• Observability Ecosystem: Experience setting up production monitoring using Grafana Cloud, Alloy, or Prometheus.

Bonus Points

• Hands-on scripting capability in Python/Bash, with development experience in Rust or Java preferred.

• Experience with hardware acceleration technologies (FPGAs, SmartNICs) or custom network card driver tuning.

• Knowledge of PTP (Precision Time Protocol) / IEEE 1588 or clock synchronization setup for high-precision trade timestamping.

The base pay for this role is expected to be between $179,000 -