# Senior Trading Systems DevOps Engineer at FalconX

- Company: FalconX
- What the company does: Backed by Accel, Lightspeed and Sapphire.
- Company website: http://www.falconx.io
- Type: Startups
- Level: Senior
- Location: New York City, NY
- Work setup: On-site
- Pay: $179K to $226K base salary per year (USD)
- Posted: 2026-10-15
- Apply by: 2026-11-29
- Apply: https://job-boards.greenhouse.io/falconx/jobs/4744168005?utm_source=1752vc&utm_medium=careers
- Page: https://www.1752.vc/careers/jobs/falconx-senior-trading-systems-devops-engineer/

## About the role

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. Found on 1752vc Careers, the job board for startup and VC roles.

## What they're looking for

- Bachelor’s degree with 5+ years of experience as an Infrastructure or Systems Engineer in low-latency electronic trading environments
- Deep Linux kernel knowledge: performance tuning, memory management, and network I/O optimization (isolcpus, CPU pinning, ring buffers)
- Hands-on expertise optimizing AWS low-latency constructs (Placement Groups, ENA/ENI, high-performance EC2 selection)
- Proven track record productionizing low-latency trading systems across cloud, on-prem, and colocation environments
- Experience building CI/CD pipelines for stateful trading systems using Jenkins, ArgoCD, or GitHub Actions
- Direct experience with FIX protocol execution flows and low-latency Aeron messaging (IPC/UDP)

Tags: Engineering - Quant and Trading Systems

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