Data Operations

Optiver is a global market maker founded in Amsterdam, with offices in London, Chicago, Austin, New York, Sydney, Shanghai, Hong Kong, Singapore, Taipei and Mumbai. Established in 1986, today we are a leading liquidity provider, with close to 2,000 employees in offices around the world, united in our commitment to improve the market through competitive pricing, execution and risk management. By providing liquidity on multiple exchanges across the world in various financial instruments we participate in the safeguarding of healthy and efficient markets. We provide liquidity to financial markets using our own capital, at our own risk, trading a wide range of products: listed derivatives, cash equities, ETFs, bonds and foreign currencies.

Optiver’s Sydney office is one of the primary players within Asian markets, trading a range of products. Established in 1996, we're an active participant on the Hong Kong, Korea, Singapore, Taiwan and Japan exchanges, and act as Optiver’s APAC head office.

We’re building out our Data Reliability & Quality Engineering function in Sydney, the Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) arm of our global data platform.

This team ensures that data is reliable, accurate and available when it’s needed. You’ll sit at the intersection of data engineering, operations and market data, monitoring critical pipelines, improving system resilience and building automation to detect and prevent issues before they impact trading or research.

You’ll play a key role in shaping how we ingest and deliver trusted, high-quality data at scale, supporting a growing, data-driven global business. In this role, you will:

• Monitor and optimize the performance and stability of data pipelines to meet SLAs.

• Design and maintain data quality tests for accuracy, consistency and completeness.

• Investigate data incidents, perform root-cause analysis and implement preventive measures.

• Apply SRE principles to enhance reliability, alerting and recovery mechanisms.

• Develop automation and tooling to reduce manual intervention and improve scalability.

• Collaborate with data engineers, researchers and market data teams to align reliability goals with business priorities.

• 2+ years of experience in data engineering, site reliability engineering (SRE) or data operations.

• Proficient in SQL, ETL processes and at least one programming language (Python, Scala or C++).

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