Optiver’s Global Production Operations Engineering team is at the heart of our real-time trading systems, ensuring they operate with the highest levels of reliability, performance, and scalability. As Team Lead, you’ll play a pivotal role in shaping how we manage our production environment across APAC and globally — combining hands-on technical leadership with strategic oversight to drive operational excellence.

This role offers the unique opportunity to lead a high-performing team of engineers responsible for evolving the platforms that power Optiver’s low-latency trading operations. Your leadership will directly impact system resilience, incident response, automation, and business performance in high-stakes markets. Trading at Optiver requires bulletproof infrastructure — and your team will be the one keeping it that way. This is your chance to drive meaningful change in a globally distributed, high-impact environment where engineering excellence directly fuels business success.

WHO WE ARE

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. 

WHAT YOU'LL DO

As a hands-on leader, you’ll be responsible for:

• Leading and developing a world-class team of Production Operations Engineers, including hiring, coaching, and fostering a culture of ownership, accountability, and continuous learning.

• Driving strategy and execution across our global trading production environment, ensuring system uptime, scalability, and performance — especially during peak market activity.

• Designing and managing global support coverage, including a follow-the-sun model to ensure 24/7 reliability and seamless handovers across regions.

• Establishing operational standards including SLAs, KPIs, and control frameworks that ensure discipline, audit-readiness, and high service quality.

• Owning the incident lifecycle — from real-time response to root cause analysis and long-term remediation — embedding lessons learned into processes and tooling.

• Leading improvements in automation, deployment workflows, and monitoring, reducing manual effort and increasing system robustness and agility.

• Ensuring production readiness for new exchanges, trading strategies, and infrastructure changes, coordinating across development, trading, and infrastructure teams.

• Managing colocation environments and ensuring adequate redundancy, performance headroom, and operational capacity planning.

• Contributing technically to platforms, tools, and processes that enhance operational leverage, observability, and fault tolerance.

• Representing the team in leadership forums, advocating for production priorities, and aligning team objectives with broader business goals.

WHO YOU ARE

You are a pragmatic, calm, and strategic engineering leader who thrives in high-performance, mission-critical environments. You know how to balance operational safety with system performance, and people leadership with technical ownership.

Leadership & Communication

• Proven success leading technical operations, SRE, or production engineering teams in real-time or low-latency environments.

• Strong organizational skills with experience managing multi-region support and coordinating global rosters.

• Skilled communicator who can align business and technical stakeholders, provide clarity under pressure, and drive cross-functional collaboration.

• Passionate about coaching, developing, and retaining top engineering talent.

Technical & Operational Expertise

• Deep expertise in Linux-based distributed systems, ideally in capital markets, trading, or similarly fast-paced environments.

• Strong proficiency in scripting and automation tools (e.g., Python, Bash), CI/CD pipelines, and observability systems.

• Demonstrated experience defining and managing SLAs/SLOs, with a data-driven approach to improving reliability and performance.

• Comfortable leading incident response in high-pressure scenarios and building systems that prevent recurrence. This role is 40% operational. 

• Experience with colocation infrastructure, system tuning, and real-time telemetry is highly valuable.

• Exposure to high-frequency trading or low-latency financial systems is a strong plus.

WHAT YOU'LL GET

• A performance-based bonus structure unmatched anywhere in the industry. We combine our profits across desks, teams and offices into a global profit pool, fostering a truly collaborative environment.

• The chance to work alongside diverse and intelligent peers in a rewarding environment.

• Training, mentorship and personal development opportunities.

• Daily breakfast, lunch and an in-house barista.

• Gym membership plus weekly in-house chair massages.

• Regular social events, including a company trip every two years.

• Guided relocation, a competitive relocation package and visa sponsorship where necessary.

DIVERSITY STATEMENT

Optiver is committed to diversity and inclusion. We encourage applications from candidates of all backgrounds, and welcome requests for reasonable adjustments during the process.

Questions? Get in touch with the recruitment team at careers@optiver.com.au.

Optiver is looking for an experienced Production Software Engineer to join our team responsible for all infrastructure, systems, tooling and workflows that enable our engineers to deploy, operate and observe our vast network of highly specialized and performance-sensitive trading systems. 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 friction. Your contributions have the potential to directly enable a faster and safer innovation cycle for Optiver.

What you’ll do:

Our Production Software Engineers develop solutions using a mix of third party and in-house technologies, owning their changes end-to-end, including understanding the business problem, design, implementation, testing, deployment and monitoring. You will work closely with your team to support them on delivery where you see fit, such as requirements, architecture or implementation.

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.

• You must have:
  • Extensive experience in software engineering, particularly designing and delivering systems at scale
  • Deep knowledge of software systems, operating environments, and how distributed applications run in production
  • A strong improvement mindset, with the ability to simplify complex systems and reduce operational friction

• • Proficiency in Python
  • Familiarity with CI/CD pipelines, configuration management tools, and modern web frameworks
  • Experience working in trading or other high-performance, low-latency environments

Who we are:

At Optiver, our mission is to improve the market by injecting liquidity, providing accurate pricing, increasing transparency and stabilizing the market no matter the conditions. With a focus on continuous improvement, we prioritize safeguarding the health and efficiency of the markets for all participants. As one of the largest market making institutions, we are a respected partner on 100+ exchanges across the globe.

Our differences are our edge. Optiver does not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, sex, gender identity, sexual orientation, age, physical or mental disability, or other legally protected characteristics.

At Optiver, we strive for excellence in all things we do. We are looking for Data Center Engineers that share this mindset. A well-planned and well-orchestrated cabling and racking infrastructure is just as important to us as well-engineered trading software.

If you are someone who takes pride in what you do, who relentlessly strives for perfection, who gets a kick out of systematizing and organizing your domain, then you’re the person we seek. This is a chance to take ownership of the physical part of our trading infrastructure across multiple data centers and thousands of servers, all the while striving for simplicity and operational excellence.

What you’ll do

• Install and cable switches, servers, and appliances in our data co-locations
• Facilitate installation of servers and network equipment with smart hands in remote co-locations
• Manage power and space including monitoring and capacity planning
• Maintain a consistent and clean cable management philosophy and manage cable inventory
• Replace hard drives/memory/transceivers and other hardware related tasks as required by our server and network teams
• Assist in the planning of moves or new buildouts 
• Coordinate the secure packing, shipment, and timely delivery of equipment to and from remote co-location sites
• Maintain clean and accurate data center documentation

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
• VP structure only Highly competitive compensation package including 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

• Ability to identify basic parts of network equipment, including SFPs, line cards, and chassis
• Ability to identify basic parts of servers, including memory, network cards and hard drives
• Experience with identifying port locations for specific device manufacturers (Cisco, Arista, Juniper)
• Knowledge of structured cabling systems using cat 5, cat 6, multi-mode and single-mode fiber
• Familiarity with both power and communications cabling standards
• Experience configuring and using cable testers for both fiber and copper to troubleshoot cabling issues
• An understanding of change control processes
• Strong documentation experience
• Ability to lift 75lbs
• Attention to detail
• Ability to commute to our co-locations in Durham

Who we are

At Optiver, our mission is to improve the market by injecting liquidity, providing accurate pricing, increasing transparency and stabilising the market no matter the conditions. With a focus on continuous improvement, we prioritise safeguarding the health and efficiency of the markets for all participants. As one of the largest market making institutions, we are a respected partner on 100+ exchanges across the globe.

Our differences are our edge. Optiver does not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, sex, gender identity, sexual orientation, age, physical or mental disability, or other legally protected characteristics.

WHO WE ARE

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.

Since its establishment in 2012, our Shanghai office is a rapidly growing participant in the Chinese markets, trading exchange-listed futures, options and equities in China mainland. Our vision is to become the trusted partner in the development of Chinese financial markets. With the culture of a start-up but the backing of a 35+ year-old trading firm, the Optiver Shanghai office is truly unique. Everyone who joins us will help shape the future of our company and its global impact. Get ready: we are only just beginning.

The Optiver Linux Systems Engineering Team ensures our trading servers work so we can trade. You will work in a highly-customized bare metal environment where proprietary tools and technology run at breakneck speed. You will be expected to help build the pioneering tools to keep our systems best-in-class while enabling our technology evolution in a controlled way. At Optiver, our mission is to constantly improve the market by injecting liquidity, providing accurate pricing, increasing transparency and acting as a stabilizing force no matter the market conditions. With a focus on continuous improvement, we participate in the safeguarding of healthy and efficient markets for everyone who participates. As one of the largest market making institutions, we are a trusted partner of 70+ exchanges across the globe.

WHAT YOU’LL DO

• Tackle the life cycle of a server and build and deploy new solutions.
• Performance monitoring and managing the system capacity.
• Fix and analyze technical incidents, solve technical ad hoc problems.
• Lead our charge to intelligent automation.
• Be the connection between hardware and software.
• Research new technologies and solutions, implement them or build better.

WHO YOU ARE

• A Systems Engineer with Experience in designing, deploying and supporting large scale Linux/Unix server environments
• Good knowledge of Linux Kernel internals
• Have a developer mindset to help build the right tools for our continual improvement
• Solid coding skills in Python and a strong desire to automate
• Experience within a high-performance computer environment where the result matters
• Infrastructure-as-Code with an Ansible flavor
• You are naturally curious about hardware and software, and how these interact
• Knowledge of virtualization and networking
• A proactive approach to problem solving
• You are able to clearly explain your thoughts through written and verbal communication, ask the right questions, and are not afraid to challenge or defend a strategy
• You seek out opportunities to leave your comfort zone and enjoy frequent change

 WHAT YOU'LL GET

• A performance-based bonus structure unmatched anywhere in the industry. We combine our profits across desks, teams and offices into a global profit pool, fostering a truly collaborative environment.

• The chance to work alongside diverse and intelligent peers in a rewarding environment.

• Training, mentorship and personal development opportunities.

• Daily breakfast, lunch and snacks.

• Gym membership, sports and leisure activities, plus weekly in-house chair massages

• Regular social events, clubs and Friday afternoon drinks.

Optiver is committed to diversity and inclusion. We encourage applications from candidates of all backgrounds, and welcome requests for reasonable adjustments during the process.

Questions? Get in touch with the recruitment team at careers@optiver.com.au.

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Our Linux engineering team ensures that our critical trading servers and infrastructure operate efficiently and reliably across the globe. In a highly customized, bare-metal environment powered by proprietary tools and technology, you’ll help design and implement cutting-edge solutions that enable scalable technological evolution while maintaining peak performance together with speed and precision.

What you'll do

• Designing, deploying, and managing the lifecycle of a large-scale fleet of Linux servers across multiple data centers, ensuring reliability, performance, and scalability.
• Architecting, building, and maintaining systems that drive efficiency and support Optiver’s evolving technology stack.
• Ensuring system reliability by swiftly resolving incidents and optimizing performance to meet trading demands, even during extreme market conditions.
• Researching and implementing new technologies or building enhanced in-house solutions to improve performance and system stability.
• Bridging the gap between hardware and software to ensure seamless interaction and integration.
• Optimizing system and kernel performance, including CPU affinity, NUMA balancing, HugePages, IRQ tuning, and other low-level configurations.
• Developing and maintaining automation tools using Python to enhance system efficiency.
• Monitoring system health and performance using observability tools such as Prometheus, Grafana, and Alertmanager.
• Managing system provisioning and infrastructure deployment using Infrastructure-as-Code tools like Ansible and/or Terraform.
• Joining our rotating support and on-call roster to facilitate global trading operations.

Who you are

• Experience in Linux engineering, debugging, administration, and OS system provisioning

• A solid understanding of networking fundamentals, including TCP/IP, DNS, TCP/UDP/multicast, and packet analysis.

• Hands-on experience with system/network tools such as EBPF, tcpdump, strace, ntp/ptp, lsof, nc.

• Experience with performance tuning at both the kernel and hardware level, including CPU pinning, cache optimizations, and BIOS/UEFI tuning.

• Experience with Linux security hardening techniques.

• Experience managing SAN storages.

• Familiarity with CI/CD pipelines, version control systems (Git), and PR-based workflows.

• Strong experience with monitoring and alerting tools like Elastic, Prometheus, Grafana, and Alert Manager.

• Proficiency in Python for automating operational tasks and system administration.

• Ability to manage large projects, work collaboratively in a team, and communicate effectively to drive technical improvements.

• Willingness to learn new technologies, navigate frequent change, and contribute to a high-performance engineering environment.

No prior trading or financial experience is needed – our onboarding program will kick-start your career at Optiver and support you in gaining all the relevant knowledge about our business.

Who we are
At Optiver, our mission is to constantly improve the market by injecting liquidity, providing accurate pricing, increasing transparency and acting as a stabilizing force no matter the market conditions. With a focus on continuous improvement, we participate in the safeguarding of healthy and efficient markets for everyone who participates. As one of the largest market making institutions, we are a trusted partner of 70+ exchanges across the globe.

What you'll get
You’ll join a culture of collaboration and excellence, where you’ll be 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, working collectively to tackle the toughest problems in the financial markets.

In addition, you’ll receive:

• A performance-based bonus structure, enabling all of our employees to benefit from our global profit pool.
• The opportunity to work alongside best-in-class professionals from over 50 different countries.
• 25 paid vacation days in your first year, increasing to 30 from your second year onwards.
• Training opportunities, discounts on health insurance, and fully paid first-class commuting expenses.
• Extensive office perks, including breakfast, lunch and dinner, world-class barista coffee, in-house physio and chair massages, organized sports and leisure activities, and Friday afternoon drinks.
• Training and continuous learning opportunities, including access to conferences and tech events.
  
  

How to apply
Apply directly via the form below. If you have any questions feel free to contact our Recruitment team via our recruitment inquiry form.

Please note:

• We do not require any assistance from third-parties including agencies in the recruitment of this role
• We cannot accept applications via email
  
  

Diversity statement
Optiver is committed to diversity and inclusion.

The Trading Operations Production Support Engineering team is responsible for maintaining and scaling Optiver’s low-latency trading systems. The team ensures a safe, stable, and efficient production environment while supporting profitability and sustainable growth across various regions. Collaborating closely with traders, development, and operational teams, the engineer will deploy, monitor, troubleshoot, and optimize our trading infrastructure to enhance reliability, performance, and automation.

What you'll do

• Provide technical expertise and support to high-frequency trading floors, troubleshooting complex issues and resolving incidents in a fast-paced, dynamic setting.
• Deploy, maintain, and monitor proprietary trading applications, ensuring stability and performance in the trading environment.
• Review and analyze incidents to identify recurring themes, driving improvements to enhance automation and operational efficiency.
• Coordinate deployments of new trading products, systems, and exchanges, ensuring readiness for events such as corporate actions or special announcements.
• Architect and maintain services to maximize reliability, ensuring the trading systems operate within performance thresholds.
• Collaborate with development teams to establish best practices and ensure the long-term stability of production systems, even under extreme conditions.
• Set standards for system configuration and deployment to minimize risks and support smooth scaling.
• Manage the colocation to ensure the right level of redundancy and capacity for growth is available.
• Automate system management processes, while maintaining control over critical operations.
  
  

Who you are
Technical Skills:

• Solid experience managing complex distributed systems in Linux environments (L2/L3 support), with a strong understanding of networking fundamentals, build, deployment, and version control systems.
• Proficiency with CI/CD tooling and scripting in Python or similar languages to automate tasks.
• Experience with relational databases (e.g., PostgreSQL) or other database systems.
• Demonstrated ability to drive system improvements and work across global teams to deliver changes.

Non-Technical Skills:

• A collaborative team player with a positive attitude, capable of coordinating effectively across departments.
• A pragmatic and logical thinker who thrives under pressure in high-intensity environments, with strong troubleshooting skills and the ability to resolve incidents efficiently.
• Effective communicator, able to clearly explain technical concepts and ask insightful questions.
• Highly organized, able to manage multiple responsibilities while keeping stakeholders informed.
• Passionate about technology, curious about the interaction between hardware and software, and driven to learn and grow by embracing frequent change.
• Prior experience in high-frequency trading environments is a plus, but not required.

No prior trading or financial experience is needed – our onboarding program will kick-start your career at Optiver and support you in gaining all the relevant knowledge about our business.

Who we are
At Optiver, our mission is to constantly improve the market by injecting liquidity, providing accurate pricing, increasing transparency and acting as a stabilizing force no matter the market conditions. With a focus on continuous improvement, we participate in the safeguarding of healthy and efficient markets for everyone who participates. As one of the largest market making institutions, we are a trusted partner of 70+ exchanges across the globe.

What you'll get
You’ll join a culture of collaboration and excellence, where you’ll be 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, working collectively to tackle the toughest problems in the financial markets.

In addition, you’ll receive:

• A performance-based bonus structure, enabling all of our employees to benefit from our global profit pool.
• The opportunity to work alongside best-in-class professionals from over 50 different countries.
• 25 paid vacation days in your first year, increasing to 30 from your second year onwards.
• Training opportunities, discounts on health insurance, and fully paid first-class commuting expenses.
• Extensive office perks, including breakfast, lunch and dinner, world-class barista coffee, in-house physio and chair massages, organized sports and leisure activities, and Friday afternoon drinks.
• Training and continuous learning opportunities, including access to conferences and tech events.
  
  

How to apply
Are you interested in furthering your career on one of the most dynamic and exciting trading floors in Europe?
Apply directly via the form below for the position of Trading Operations Engineer. If you have any questions feel free to contact our Recruiter team via recruitment inquiry form.
Please note:

• We cannot accept applications via email for data protection reasons.
• We do not require any assistance from third-parties including agencies in the recruitment of this role

Diversity statement
Optiver is committed to diversity and inclusion.

Our Linux engineering team ensures that our critical trading servers and infrastructure operate efficiently and reliably across the globe. In a highly customized, bare-metal environment powered by proprietary tools and technology, you’ll help design and implement cutting-edge solutions that enable scalable technological evolution while maintaining peak performance together with speed and precision.

What you'll do

• Designing, deploying, and managing the lifecycle of a large-scale fleet of Linux servers across multiple data centers, ensuring reliability, performance, and scalability.
• Architecting, building, and maintaining systems that drive efficiency and support Optiver’s evolving technology stack.
• Ensuring system reliability by swiftly resolving incidents and optimizing performance to meet trading demands, even during extreme market conditions.
• Researching and implementing new technologies or building enhanced in-house solutions to improve performance and system stability.
• Bridging the gap between hardware and software to ensure seamless interaction and integration.
• Optimizing system and kernel performance, including CPU affinity, NUMA balancing, HugePages, IRQ tuning, and other low-level configurations.
• Developing and maintaining automation tools using Python to enhance system efficiency.
• Monitoring system health and performance using observability tools such as Prometheus, Grafana, and Alertmanager.
• Managing system provisioning and infrastructure deployment using Infrastructure-as-Code tools like Ansible and/or Terraform.
• Joining our rotating support and on-call roster to facilitate global trading operations.

Who you are

• Experience in Linux engineering, debugging, administration, and OS system provisioning

• A solid understanding of networking fundamentals, including TCP/IP, DNS, TCP/UDP/multicast, and packet analysis.

• Hands-on experience with system/network tools such as EBPF, tcpdump, strace, ntp/ptp, lsof, nc.

• Experience with performance tuning at both the kernel and hardware level, including CPU pinning, cache optimizations, and BIOS/UEFI tuning.

• Experience with Linux security hardening techniques.

• Experience managing SAN storages.

• Familiarity with CI/CD pipelines, version control systems (Git), and PR-based workflows.

• Strong experience with monitoring and alerting tools like Elastic, Prometheus, Grafana, and Alert Manager.

• Proficiency in Python for automating operational tasks and system administration.

• Ability to manage large projects, work collaboratively in a team, and communicate effectively to drive technical improvements.

• Willingness to learn new technologies, navigate frequent change, and contribute to a high-performance engineering environment.

No prior trading or financial experience is needed – our onboarding program will kick-start your career at Optiver and support you in gaining all the relevant knowledge about our business.

Who we are
At Optiver, our mission is to constantly improve the market by injecting liquidity, providing accurate pricing, increasing transparency and acting as a stabilizing force no matter the market conditions. With a focus on continuous improvement, we participate in the safeguarding of healthy and efficient markets for everyone who participates. As one of the largest market making institutions, we are a trusted partner of 70+ exchanges across the globe.

What you'll get
You’ll join a culture of collaboration and excellence, where you’ll be 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, working collectively to tackle the toughest problems in the financial markets.

In addition, you’ll receive:

• A performance-based bonus structure, enabling all of our employees to benefit from our global profit pool.
• The opportunity to work alongside best-in-class professionals from over 50 different countries.
• 25 paid vacation days in your first year, increasing to 30 from your second year onwards.
• Training opportunities, discounts on health insurance, and fully paid first-class commuting expenses.
• Extensive office perks, including breakfast, lunch and dinner, world-class barista coffee, in-house physio and chair massages, organized sports and leisure activities, and Friday afternoon drinks.
• Training and continuous learning opportunities, including access to conferences and tech events.
  
  

How to apply
Apply directly via the form below. If you have any questions feel free to contact our Recruitment team via our recruitment inquiry form.

Please note:

• We do not require any assistance from third-parties including agencies in the recruitment of this role
• We cannot accept applications via email
  
  

Diversity statement
Optiver is committed to diversity and inclusion.

• Installing and cabling switches, servers and appliances in our Brazil co-locations;
• Managing power and space allocation, including capacity planning and monitoring;
• Maintaining clean and consistent cable management practices;
• Tracking and managing spare parts and cable inventory;
• Performing break-fix repairs, replacing components like hard drives, memory and transceivers;
• Planning and executing data center build-outs, relocations and new equipment installations;
• Packing, shipping, and managing the logistics of the Brazil co-locations;
• Maintaining comprehensive data center documentation and support the standardization of procedures;
• Troubleshooting and testing cabling (fiber and copper) using cable testers;
• Supporting system builds, configuration, and troubleshooting as needed

• Experience working in modern, large-scale data centers;
• Ability to identify basic parts of network equipment (SFPs, line cards, chassis) and servers (memory, network cards, hard drives);
• Knowledge of structured cabling systems (Cat 5, Cat 6, multi-mode, and single-mode fiber);
• Familiarity with power and communications cabling standards;
• Experience with cable testers to troubleshoot both fiber and copper cabling issues;
• An understanding of change control processes;
• Basic server operating system installation and configuration skills;
• Strong documentation skills and a meticulous approach to tracking details.

• Excellent verbal and written communication skills;
• Creative problem-solving mindset, bringing new ideas to improve data center operations;
• Experience leading or coordinating resources in infrastructure projects, from conception to completion;
• Ability to work both independently and collaboratively in fast-paced environments;
• Ability to lift up to 75 lbs, 30kg, Ability to lift heavy objects
• Willingness to work flexible hours outside of regular business hours, including weekends, to execute physical infrastructure changes;

Who we are

At Optiver, our mission is to constantly improve the market by injecting liquidity, providing accurate pricing, increasing transparency and acting as a stabilizing force no matter the market conditions. With a focus on continuous improvement, we participate in the safeguarding of healthy and efficient markets for everyone who participates. As one of the largest market making institutions, we are a trusted partner of 70+ exchanges across the globe.

What you'll get

You’ll join a culture of collaboration and excellence, where you’ll be 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, working collectively to tackle the toughest problems in the financial markets.

How to apply 

Apply directly via the form below. If you have any questions feel free to contact our Recruitment team via our recruitment inquiry form.

Please note:

• We do not require any assistance from third-parties including agencies in the recruitment of this role
• We cannot accept applications via email

Diversity statement

Optiver is committed to diversity and inclusion.

Optiver is building its Digital Assets trading capabilities and is looking for a Cloud Infrastructure Engineer. This role sits in the Global Cloud Platforms team and will report to the Global Head of Cloud Platforms.

You will help build the foundations for a new trading tenancy on Optiver’s existing cloud platform. With a mature hybrid cloud infrastructure already in place, this role allows you to optimize it for the unique operational and performance needs of digital assets trading. Your focus in this role will be on extending our cloud platform to meet the performance demands of a latency-sensitive, always-on trading environment.

You’ll be accountable for delivering a secure, performant, and robust infrastructure that directly supports trading outcomes - stability, latency, resilience, and safe change in the digital assets space.

What you'll do 

• Design low-latency infrastructure using cloud primitives and optimized configurations.

• Own and enhance cloud infrastructure performance setups.

• Build and run high-throughput, resilient connectivity patterns for exchange integrations.

• Drive security hygiene both on and off cloud with secrets management, network segmentation and traffic isolation.

• Implement governance and best practices for shared cloud platform ensuring safe multi-tenant operation.

• Deliver infrastructure as code using Terraform and Terragrunt, following Optiver standards and workflows.

• Build and maintain CI/CD and automated testing for changes minimizing risk in always-on markets.

• Implement and enhance observability using CloudWatch, Prometheus, Grafana, and similar tools.

• Participate in operational ownership through incident response, post-incident improvement, and continuous hardening.

Who you are

• Demonstrated expertise in owning production infrastructure as an engineer (Platform, SRE, or Infrastructure engineering background).

• Deep cloud infrastructure knowledge, especially around VPC design, compute optimization, and performance networking features.

• Proven ability to write and maintain Terraform modules and operate IaC safely through reviews, testing, and deployment pipelines.

• Solid Linux fundamentals, including networking and systems performance tuning.

• Ability to program in at least one language (e.g., Python or Go) for tooling, automation, and integration work.

• Collaborative skills to work effectively with other team members and stakeholders. 

• Ability to communicate technical information to both technical & non-technical stakeholders.

• Ability to gauge business problems and prioritize tasks accordingly.

Strong preference will be given to candidates with:

• Experience managing multi-cloud (AWS, GCP, AliCloud, etc) infrastructure.

• Experience building & managing latency-sensitive systems in cloud (trading, real-time systems, market data, etc.).

• Hands-on experience managing WebSocket infrastructure under burst load and unstable upstream conditions.

• Solid understanding of exchange rate limits / quota models (including weight-based limits) and how to engineer systems to respect them without compromising trading performance.

• Familiarity with high-performance networking concepts (e.g., SR-IOV, kernel/network tuning, exposure to RDMA/DPDK is a plus).

Who we are

At Optiver, our mission is to constantly improve the market by injecting liquidity, providing accurate pricing, increasing transparency and acting as a stabilizing force no matter the market conditions. With a focus on continuous improvement, we participate in the safeguarding of healthy and efficient markets for everyone who participates. As one of the largest market making institutions, we are a trusted partner of 70+ exchanges across the globe.

What you'll get

You’ll join a culture of collaboration and excellence, where you’ll be 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, working collectively to tackle the toughest problems in the financial markets.

In addition, you’ll receive:

• A performance-based bonus structure, enabling all of our employees to benefit from our global profit pool.
• 27 paid vacation days plus all UK public holidays.
• Daily breakfast and lunch, along with support on commuting expenses.
• Private medical insurance, pension scheme, and ClassPass fitness membership.
• Training and continuous learning opportunities, including access to conferences and tech events.
• International transfer opportunities for global career growth.

How to apply

Are you interested in furthering your career on one of the most dynamic and exciting trading floors in Europe? 

Apply directly via the form below. If you have any questions feel free to contact our Recruitment team via our recruitment inquiry form.

Please note:

• We do not require any assistance from third-parties including agencies in the recruitment of this role
• We cannot accept applications via email

Diversity statement

Optiver is committed to diversity and inclusion.

As a Linux Engineer in the Global Linux team, you will design, build and operate the critical infrastructure that powers our trading environment. The team owns both large-scale bare-metal Linux platforms and on-prem Kubernetes clusters across our global datacenters.

You will play a key role in evolving our Kubernetes platform while continuing to support and improve our high-performance Linux estate.

What you’ll do

Design, deploy and operate on-prem Kubernetes clusters in a bare-metal environment (Rancher-managed)

• Maintain and improve our bare-metal Linux infrastructure, including provisioning, lifecycle management and performance tuning

• Own and operate core Kubernetes components including Cilium (CNI), ArgoCD (GitOps), and Rancher

• Build and maintain CI/CD workflows for infrastructure and cluster deployments using ArgoCD and GitHub Actions

• Develop and maintain infrastructure as code using Terraform and bespoke on-prem systems

• Participate in on-call rotation covering both Kubernetes clusters and other Linux-based production systems

• Drive reliability, scalability and performance improvements across both containerized and non-containerized workloads

• Contribute to monitoring, observability and security posture across the Linux and Kubernetes platforms

• Ensure the broader team can effectively operate and support the Kubernetes and Linux platforms by building clear documentation, operational runbooks, and providing practical, hands-on guidance

Who you are

• Strong Linux systems engineering experience in production environments

• Hands-on experience operating Kubernetes on-prem (not only managed cloud offerings)

• Experience with:

  • Rancher

  • Cilium or other CNI technologies

  • ArgoCD (GitOps workflows)

  • Terraform

  • CI/CD systems such as GitHub Actions

• Solid understanding of networking fundamentals (L2/L3, routing, firewalls, load balancing)

• Experience troubleshooting performance issues across kernel, container and network layers

• Production mindset with experience in incident response and post-mortem driven improvements

Nice to have

• Experience building monitoring stacks (e.g. Prometheus, Grafana)

• Experience with Kubernetes security controls (network policies, RBAC, policy engines)

• Knowledge of low-latency or performance-sensitive environments

• Experience contributing to internal platform tooling

No prior trading or financial experience is needed – our onboarding program will kick-start your career at Optiver and support you in gaining all the relevant knowledge about our business.

Who we are
At Optiver, our mission is to constantly improve the market by injecting liquidity, providing accurate pricing, increasing transparency and acting as a stabilizing force no matter the market conditions. With a focus on continuous improvement, we participate in the safeguarding of healthy and efficient markets for everyone who participates. As one of the largest market making institutions, we are a trusted partner of 70+ exchanges across the globe.

What you'll get
You’ll join a culture of collaboration and excellence, where you’ll be 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, working collectively to tackle the toughest problems in the financial markets.

In addition, you’ll receive:

• A performance-based bonus structure, enabling all of our employees to benefit from our global profit pool.
• The opportunity to work alongside best-in-class professionals from over 50 different countries.
• 25 paid vacation days in your first year, increasing to 30 from your second year onwards.
• Training opportunities, discounts on health insurance, and fully paid first-class commuting expenses.
• Extensive office perks, including breakfast, lunch and dinner, world-class barista coffee, in-house physio and chair massages, organized sports and leisure activities, and Friday afternoon drinks.
• Training and continuous learning opportunities, including access to conferences and tech events.

How to apply
Apply directly via the form below. If you have any questions feel free to contact our Recruitment team via our recruitment inquiry form.

Please note:

• We do not require any assistance from third-parties including agencies in the recruitment of this role
• We cannot accept applications via email

Diversity statement
Optiver is committed to diversity and inclusion.

Optiver is looking for a Senior Network Engineer with a passion for solving problems and reducing complexity. You will join a team responsible for owning the networks that our industry-leading proprietary trading systems rely on. From day one, your contributions to the design, optimization and maintenance of our globally distributed networks will allow our traders and engineers to continue operating at the highest level of performance, making a direct impact to our business.

Speed, reliability and scalability is at the center of everything that we do.

What you'll do
Working in Optiver’s Network Engineering team will see you contributing to challenges scaling across low-latency, network automation, data center and WAN technologies through to colocation design and enterprise security to support our competitive market-making business. We're not interested in siloes, our engineers touch everything.

Specifically you will do the following:

• Provide technical expertise to enable a high frequency trading floor in a competitive market-making environment;
• Identify, design and implement network optimizations;
• Automate and eliminate manual elements of our network infrastructure;
• Assist with planned upgrades and maintenance (migrations, expansions, hardware and software upgrades);
• Ensure all aspects of our WAN network function correctly across our global data centers and colocations;
• Contribute to capacity planning, connectivity improvements and traffic flow optimization;
• Contribute to the ongoing standardization of our environments & our Infrastructure as Code vision.
  
  

Who you are

• Passionate about network performance, monitoring & capacity planning;
• Confident with a variety of network monitoring and alerting tools;
• Experience with LAN and WAN technologies;
• In depth experience with network transport & routing protocols (TCP/UDP, OSPF, BGP, Multicast);
• Comfortable working in a multi-vendor environment (Cisco, Arista, Palo Alto);
• Experience with network security and firewalls;
• Confident in Python scripting for automation or have an evidenced interest in developing this area;
• Strong communication skills, ability to articulate complex technical concepts to non-technical colleagues across Trading and other business areas;
• Experience with low-latency networking, configuration management tooling functions, time series databases and centralized logging solutions are all beneficial.
  
  

Who we are
At Optiver, our mission is to constantly improve the market by injecting liquidity, providing accurate pricing, increasing transparency and acting as a stabilizing force no matter the market conditions. With a focus on continuous improvement, we participate in the safeguarding of healthy and efficient markets for everyone who participates. As one of the largest market making institutions, we are a trusted partner of 70+ exchanges across the globe.

What you'll get
You’ll join a culture of collaboration and excellence, where you’ll be 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, working collectively to tackle the toughest problems in the financial markets.

In addition, you’ll receive:

• A performance-based bonus structure unmatched anywhere in the industry. We combine our profits across desks, teams and offices into a global profit pool
• The opportunity to work alongside best-in-class professionals from over 40 different countries
• 25 paid vacation days and fully paid first-class commuting expenses
• Training opportunities and discounts on health insurance
• Extensive office perks, including breakfast and lunch, world-class barista coffee, sports and leisure activities, Friday afternoon drinks, and weekly in-house chair massages
• Competitive relocation packages and visa sponsorship where necessary for expats
  
  

How to apply
Are you interested in furthering your career on one of the most dynamic and exciting trading floors in Europe?
Apply directly via the form below for the position of Senior Network Engineer. If you have any questions feel free to contact our Recruitment team at our recruitment inquiry form.

Please note:

• We cannot accept applications via email for data protection reasons.
• We do not require any assistance from third-parties including agencies in the recruitment of this role
  
  

Diversity Statement
Optiver is committed to diversity and inclusion.

Optiver is looking for a Senior Network Engineer with a passion for solving problems and reducing complexity. You will join a team responsible for owning the networks that our industry-leading proprietary trading systems rely on. From day one, your contributions to the design, optimization and maintenance of our globally distributed networks will allow our traders and engineers to continue operating at the highest level of performance, making a direct impact to our business.

Speed, reliability and scalability is at the center of everything that we do.

What you'll do
Working in Optiver’s Network Engineering team will see you contributing to challenges scaling across low-latency, network automation, data center and WAN technologies through to colocation design and enterprise security to support our competitive market-making business. We're not interested in siloes, our engineers touch everything.

Specifically you will do the following:

• Provide technical expertise to enable a high frequency trading floor in a competitive market-making environment;
• Identify, design and implement network optimizations;
• Automate and eliminate manual elements of our network infrastructure;
• Assist with planned upgrades and maintenance (migrations, expansions, hardware and software upgrades);
• Ensure all aspects of our WAN network function correctly across our global data centers and colocations;
• Contribute to capacity planning, connectivity improvements and traffic flow optimization;
• Contribute to the ongoing standardization of our environments & our Infrastructure as Code vision.
  
  

Who you are

• Passionate about network performance, monitoring & capacity planning;
• Confident with a variety of network monitoring and alerting tools;
• Experience with LAN and WAN technologies;
• In depth experience with network transport & routing protocols (TCP/UDP, OSPF, BGP, Multicast);
• Comfortable working in a multi-vendor environment (Cisco, Arista, Palo Alto);
• Experience with network security and firewalls;
• Confident in Python scripting for automation or have an evidenced interest in developing this area;
• Strong communication skills, ability to articulate complex technical concepts to non-technical colleagues across Trading and other business areas;
• Experience with low-latency networking, configuration management tooling functions, time series databases and centralized logging solutions are all beneficial.
  
  

Who we are
At Optiver, our mission is to constantly improve the market by injecting liquidity, providing accurate pricing, increasing transparency and acting as a stabilizing force no matter the market conditions. With a focus on continuous improvement, we participate in the safeguarding of healthy and efficient markets for everyone who participates. As one of the largest market making institutions, we are a trusted partner of 70+ exchanges across the globe.

What you'll get
You’ll join a culture of collaboration and excellence, where you’ll be 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, working collectively to tackle the toughest problems in the financial markets.

In addition, you’ll receive:

• A performance-based bonus structure unmatched anywhere in the industry. We combine our profits across desks, teams and offices into a global profit pool
• The opportunity to work alongside best-in-class professionals from over 40 different countries
• 25 paid vacation days and fully paid first-class commuting expenses
• Training opportunities and discounts on health insurance
• Extensive office perks, including breakfast and lunch, world-class barista coffee, sports and leisure activities, Friday afternoon drinks, and weekly in-house chair massages
• Competitive relocation packages and visa sponsorship where necessary for expats
  
  

How to apply
Are you interested in furthering your career on one of the most dynamic and exciting trading floors in Europe?
Apply directly via the form below for the position of Senior Network Engineer. If you have any questions feel free to contact our Recruitment team at our recruitment inquiry form.

Please note:

• We cannot accept applications via email for data protection reasons.
• We do not require any assistance from third-parties including agencies in the recruitment of this role
  
  

Diversity Statement
Optiver is committed to diversity and inclusion.

Optiver's Production Engineering teams manage our live trading environment, which is active across 50+ global exchanges and hundreds of thousands of interconnected financial products. Our world-class infrastructure is a combination of vastly distributed systems, high-performance computing and low-latency trading algorithms, as well as high-throughput dataflows and data analysis. To keep pace with the ever-changing markets, Optiver must always react with speed, and therefore takes an in-house approach to building, analysing, managing and improving our custom infrastructure. Taking this autonomy a step further, Optiver's huge volumes of data are stored at our own data centre rather than in the cloud. Our technological independence enables us to evolve our systems on a daily basis, operating with tight feedback loops and quick development cycles. The challenge is balancing innovation with reliability and performance in such a complex, time-pressured environment – and that's exactly where you come in. 

What you'll do
As a Production Engineer, you'll be responsible for deploying, maintaining, monitoring and improving the reliability, scalability and performance of our in-house built trading systems. At Optiver, reliability means prevention and swift resolution across our software, to guarantee optimum functioning even in the most extreme market conditions. Having a decisive nature, engineering mindset and preference for simple solutions are essential to keeping our systems reliable.

The Production Engineer role is crucial for Optiver's trading activities. Your scope will cover market access, monitoring and compliance, strategy evaluation and management, performance tuning and trading automation. Sitting in the middle of our buzzing trading floor, you will have constant face-to-face interaction with end-users (Traders and Researchers as well as fellow Engineers). This is an engineering role, not a support role, so you'll set the standards for our production environment. As part of our core business, you will make a real, direct impact on our ability to trade and trading results. No two days are the same in our high-stakes, flat-hierarchy environment.

Learn more about a day in the life of a Production Engineer (we call this job Application Engineer internally) in this blog post and this video. 

Who you are

• You are a pragmatic, logical thinker.
• With a facilitating and enabling attitude, you always strive to find clean and simple solutions.
• You are naturally curious about hardware and software, and how these interact.
• You want to work on a broad range of projects and use various tools to best solve any problem at hand.
• With a hands-on approach, you can look at code, figure out how it works and explore how to make it better.
• You are able to clearly explain your thoughts through written and verbal communication, ask the right questions, and are not afraid to challenge or defend a strategy. 
• You seek out opportunities to leave your comfort zone and enjoy frequent change.

In terms of skillset, we're looking for:

• Experience managing day-to-day operations of software and hardware infrastructure
• Strong affinity with Unix/Linux systems
• The ability to automate tasks using Python
• Strong design, debugging, and problem solving skills
• Experience with relational databases (e.g. we use PostgreSQL but welcome experience with any other database);
• An understanding of networking fundamentals and protocols.

No prior trading or financial experience is needed – our onboarding program will kick-start your career at Optiver and support you in gaining all the relevant knowledge about our business.

Who we are
At Optiver, our mission is to constantly improve the market by injecting liquidity, providing accurate pricing, increasing transparency and acting as a stabilizing force no matter the market conditions. With a focus on continuous improvement, we participate in the safeguarding of healthy and efficient markets for everyone who participates. As one of the largest market making institutions, we are a trusted partner of 70+ exchanges across the globe.

What you'll get
You’ll join a culture of collaboration and excellence, where you’ll be 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, working collectively to tackle the toughest problems in the financial markets.

In addition, you’ll receive:

• A performance-based bonus structure unmatched anywhere in the industry. We combine our profits across desks, teams and offices into a global profit pool
• The opportunity to work alongside best-in-class professionals from over 40 different countries
• 25 paid vacation days and fully paid first-class commuting expenses
• Training opportunities and discounts on health insurance
• Extensive office perks, including breakfast and lunch, world-class barista coffee, sports and leisure activities, Friday afternoon drinks, and weekly in-house chair massages
• Competitive relocation packages and visa sponsorship where necessary for expats
  
  

How to apply
Are you interested in furthering your career on one of the most dynamic and exciting trading floors in Europe?
Apply directly via the form below for the position of Production Engineer. If you have any questions feel free to contact our Recruiter team via our recruitment inquiry form.

Please note:

• We cannot accept applications via email for data protection reasons.
• We do not require any assistance from third-parties including agencies in the recruitment of this role
  
  

Diversity statement
Optiver is committed to diversity and inclusion.

Who we are 

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. 

What you’ll do 

We are seeking a motivated, hands-on Senior Information Security Engineer to join our security team. In this role, you will help protect, monitor, and continuously improve the security of our global systems including cloud (AWS and M365) and on-premises infrastructure. You’ll play a central part in risk mitigation, incident response, automation of security operations, and embedding security best practices across our organisation. An engineering mindset, attention to detail, and a preference for pragmatic solutions are essential to keeping our systems operating. 

  Main responsibilities include: 

• Monitor daily security operations, identify threats, investigate alerts, and respond to incidents across cloud and on-prem environments. 

• Strengthen Microsoft 365 and Entra ID security through Conditional Access, MFA, PIM, Defender for Endpoint/Identity/O365, and tenant configuration hardening. 

• Build and maintain security automation using Python and PowerShell, with a strong focus on reducing manual processes and improving detection and response. 

• Integrate systems using APIs (Graph API, REST, etc) to enhance security workflows. 

• Perform vulnerability assessments, review system configurations, and develop practical mitigation strategies. 

• Contribute to incident response activities including investigation, containment, communication, and remediation. 

• Work closely with engineering, technology, and business teams to embed security best practices. 

Who you are 

Optiver needs our next Information Security Engineer to have: 
 

• At least 5 years experience in an information security or technical engineering role. 

• Ability to apply analytical thinking to technical problems within a fast-moving environment. 

• Comfortable with both Windows and Linux environments; familiarity with common security technologies (firewalls, endpoint protection, log management, vulnerability scanning, network security). 

• Solid scripting skills in PowerShell and/or Python 

• Knowledge of secure Identity Management, authentication principles, and modern access control patterns. 

• Experience using security tooling such as EDR, SIEM, SOAR, CASB, etc 

• Experience securing workloads running both on-premise (bare-metal / container) and on IaaS platforms. 

• Familiarity with identity lifecycle processes, RBAC, PAM, and privileged identity controls. 

• Understanding of vulnerability management tools (Nessus/Tenable, RunZero, etc) and secure configuration standards. 

• Experience with data protection, DLP, or information protection solutions (e.g., Microsoft Purview, DLP rules, classification/labelling). 

Please note that we welcome interest from candidates with varying levels of experience; many successful candidates do not meet every single requirement. If you're excited about this role, please apply and allow our recruiters to assess your application. 
 

What you’ll get 

You’ll join a culture of collaboration and excellence, where you’ll be surrounded by curious thinkers and creative problem solvers. Driven by a passion for continuous improvement, you’ll thrive in a supportive, high-performing environment alongside talented colleagues, working collectively to tackle some of the most complex problems in the financial markets. 

In return for your expertise, you will have access to a range of Optiver perks, including: 

• A performance-based bonus structure unmatched anywhere in the industry. 

• The chance to work alongside diverse and intelligent peers in a rewarding environment. 

• Training, mentorship and personal development opportunities. 

• Daily breakfast, lunch and an in-house barista. 

• Gym membership plus weekly in-house chair massages. 

• Regular social events, including a company trip every two years. 

Optiver is committed to diversity and inclusion. We encourage applications from candidates of all backgrounds, and welcome requests for reasonable adjustments during the process. 

Questions? Get in touch with the recruitment team at careers@optiver.com.au. 

Optiver's Production Engineering teams manage our live trading environment, which is active across 50+ global exchanges and hundreds of thousands of interconnected financial products. Our world-class infrastructure is a combination of vastly distributed systems, high-performance computing and low-latency trading algorithms, as well as high-throughput dataflows and data analysis. To keep pace with the ever-changing markets, Optiver must always react with speed, and therefore takes an in-house approach to building, analysing, managing and improving our custom infrastructure. Taking this autonomy a step further, Optiver's huge volumes of data are stored at our own data centre rather than in the cloud. Our technological independence enables us to evolve our systems on a daily basis, operating with tight feedback loops and quick development cycles. The challenge is balancing innovation with reliability and performance in such a complex, time-pressured environment – and that's exactly where you come in. 

What you'll do
As a Production Engineer, you'll be responsible for deploying, maintaining, monitoring and improving the reliability, scalability and performance of our in-house built trading systems. At Optiver, reliability means prevention and swift resolution across our software, to guarantee optimum functioning even in the most extreme market conditions. Having a decisive nature, engineering mindset and preference for simple solutions are essential to keeping our systems reliable.

The Production Engineer role is crucial for Optiver's trading activities. Your scope will cover market access, monitoring and compliance, strategy evaluation and management, performance tuning and trading automation. Sitting in the middle of our buzzing trading floor, you will have constant face-to-face interaction with end-users (Traders and Researchers as well as fellow Engineers). This is an engineering role, not a support role, so you'll set the standards for our production environment. As part of our core business, you will make a real, direct impact on our ability to trade and trading results. No two days are the same in our high-stakes, flat-hierarchy environment.

Learn more about a day in the life of a Production Engineer (we call this job Application Engineer internally) in this blog post and this video. 

Who you are

• You are a pragmatic, logical thinker.
• With a facilitating and enabling attitude, you always strive to find clean and simple solutions.
• You are naturally curious about hardware and software, and how these interact.
• You want to work on a broad range of projects and use various tools to best solve any problem at hand.
• With a hands-on approach, you can look at code, figure out how it works and explore how to make it better.
• You are able to clearly explain your thoughts through written and verbal communication, ask the right questions, and are not afraid to challenge or defend a strategy. 
• You seek out opportunities to leave your comfort zone and enjoy frequent change.

In terms of skillset, we're looking for:

• Experience managing day-to-day operations of software and hardware infrastructure
• Strong affinity with Unix/Linux systems
• The ability to automate tasks using Python
• Strong design, debugging, and problem solving skills
• Experience with relational databases (e.g. we use PostgreSQL but welcome experience with any other database);
• An understanding of networking fundamentals and protocols.

No prior trading or financial experience is needed – our onboarding program will kick-start your career at Optiver and support you in gaining all the relevant knowledge about our business.

Who we are
At Optiver, our mission is to constantly improve the market by injecting liquidity, providing accurate pricing, increasing transparency and acting as a stabilizing force no matter the market conditions. With a focus on continuous improvement, we participate in the safeguarding of healthy and efficient markets for everyone who participates. As one of the largest market making institutions, we are a trusted partner of 70+ exchanges across the globe.

What you'll get
You’ll join a culture of collaboration and excellence, where you’ll be 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, working collectively to tackle the toughest problems in the financial markets.

In addition, you’ll receive:

• A performance-based bonus structure unmatched anywhere in the industry. We combine our profits across desks, teams and offices into a global profit pool
• The opportunity to work alongside best-in-class professionals from over 40 different countries
• 25 paid vacation days and fully paid first-class commuting expenses
• Training opportunities and discounts on health insurance
• Extensive office perks, including breakfast and lunch, world-class barista coffee, sports and leisure activities, Friday afternoon drinks, and weekly in-house chair massages
• Competitive relocation packages and visa sponsorship where necessary for expats
  
  

How to apply
Are you interested in furthering your career on one of the most dynamic and exciting trading floors in Europe?
Apply directly via the form below for the position of Production Engineer. If you have any questions feel free to contact our Recruiter team via our recruitment inquiry form.

Please note:

• We cannot accept applications via email for data protection reasons.
• We do not require any assistance from third-parties including agencies in the recruitment of this role
  
  

Diversity statement
Optiver is committed to diversity and inclusion.

At Optiver we are hiring the Head of Infrastructure (APAC) — a senior engineering leader and the primary regional partner to the APAC CTO and Global Head of Infrastructure. You will lead APAC infrastructure engineering capability: setting regional priorities, validating regional architectures, and ensuring the region delivers resilient, reliable, low-latency infrastructure.

This role requires both engineering pedigree and strong operational judgement. You will set regional priorities and outcomes, and you will guide, shape and assure delivery from globally managed and local teams so those outcomes are met. You will influence and validate technical designs to ensure they are fit for APAC constraints, hold teams and partners accountable for execution, and orchestrate escalations where needed. Above all, you will translate firm and APAC priorities into delivered outcomes while maintaining stakeholder confidence — making pragmatic trade-offs between latency, resilience, risk, cost and time-to-market.

WHY THIS ROLE MATTERS

In HFT, infrastructure is a competitive edge — small gains in latency, reliability or time to market directly affect success. Done well, the Head of Infrastructure (APAC) ensures regional engineering delivers the resilient platforms that improve execution, reduce risk and enable rapid delivery: you’ll set regional priorities, convene and hold teams and suppliers to account, and assure technical delivery (architectures, handoffs, major projects).

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES

• Act as the APAC Infrastructure leader: own APAC outcomes, escalations, decisions and cross-team delivery while partnering with the APAC CTO and Global Head of Infrastructure.

• Ensure coherent regional delivery from globally managed teams: define and run the operating cadence, set and enforce SLAs/OKRs, remove cross-team blockers, and coordinate delivery across time zones and geographies.

• Translate strategy into delivery: convert firm and APAC business priorities into clear infrastructure outcomes, term plans and measurable delivery commitments.

• Be the escalation owner: own APAC-level incident and change escalation, shape postmortems and remediation, and ensure robust assurance over change & configuration controls and site resilience.

• Manage the APAC operating rhythm & org leadership: set cadence, delegate effectively, hold leaders accountable, and continuously improve the region’s practices so work becomes repeatable and handover to BAU is clear.

• Partner with other regional leads: work with EU, US and other regional leads to converge regional processes into global ones, share best practices, highlight regional constraints, and ensure global standards and tooling are fit-for-purpose in APAC.

• Mentor and develop senior technical talent: coach senior engineers and engineering managers on leadership, operations and communication; promote psychological safety and an engineering culture of ownership and long-term thinking.

• Build and maintain durable stakeholder relationships: engage business, engineering and global counterparts; provide executive-ready communication of status, risk, decisions and asks.

• Take responsibility for regional talent strategy: identify leadership and performance gaps and define regional headcount and senior-hire priorities in partnership with global leads and the HRBP. Global teams will continue to own their pipelines and bench development; you will provide regional assurance, influence hiring prioritisation, and step in to recruit or accelerate capability where regional delivery requires it.

ABOUT THE TEAM

The APAC Infrastructure function operates across Sydney, Shanghai, Mumbai, Hong Kong, Japan, and is responsible for the infrastructure foundations we build and deploy our trading and non-trading environments on. You will work with globally managed engineering teams, APAC infrastructure leaders, and partner extensively with global infrastructure teams.

WHAT WE'RE LOOKING FOR

• Strong engineering pedigree: hands-on technical experience and proven architecture/engineering leadership - preferably in infrastructure engineering and/or latency-sensitive systems.

• Experience leading engineering functions at Head/Director level, defining technical roadmaps, establishing standards and growing engineering teams.

• Operational judgement: able to balance engineering quality with operational reliability and business timelines.

• Executive-level stakeholder skills and the ability to represent the region in global technical discussions.

• Experience operating in a matrix organisation and coordinating delivery from globally managed and highly distributed teams across multiple countries and timezones.

• A builder mindset: a record of driving standardisation, automation and turning bespoke solutions into durable engineering practices.

• Willingness to travel: this role requires approximately 4 weeks of travel per year across the US, Europe, and APAC.

WHAT YOU'LL GET

• A performance-based bonus structure unmatched anywhere in the industry. We combine our profits across desks, teams and offices into a global profit pool, fostering a truly collaborative environment.

• The chance to work alongside diverse and intelligent peers in a rewarding environment.

• Training, mentorship and personal development opportunities.

• Daily breakfast, lunch and an in-house barista.

• Gym membership plus weekly in-house chair massages.

• Regular social events, including a company trip every two years.

• Guided relocation, a competitive relocation package and visa sponsorship where necessary.

DIVERSITY STATEMENT

Optiver is committed to diversity and inclusion. We encourage applications from candidates of all backgrounds, and welcome requests for reasonable adjustments during the process.

Questions? Get in touch with the recruitment team at careers@optiver.com.au.

Who we are 

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. 

What you’ll do 

We are seeking a hands-on Information Security Operations Lead who combines deep security knowledge with strong coaching, mentoring, and leadership capabilities. You will guide the team through operational challenges, foster their development, and ensure the ongoing integrity of Optiver’s security operations. 

Reporting directly to the Global Head of Information Security this role will work in conjunction with the other regional security leads with your focus extending beyond individual technical execution—you will help shape the team’s roadmap, coach engineers through complex challenges, and drive alignment with global security objectives.  

  Main responsibilities include: 

• Build and lead a high-performance security engineers and analysts, including managing performance, career development and delivery. 

• Oversee day-to-day security operations, ensuring efficient triage, investigation, escalation, and resolution of security events 

• Continuously refine operational processes and partner with global security teams to drive alignment in processes, standards, and tooling. 

• Lead the team during high-severity incidents, coordinating efforts across engineering, business, and global stakeholders. 

• Work with engineers to identify automation opportunities, reduce toil, and improve detection and response capabilities. 

• Act as the primary point of contact for operational security topics within APAC and build strong partnerships with all stakeholders. 

• Contribute to the long-term strategy and roadmap for global security operations. 

Who you are 

Optiver needs our next APAC Information Security Operations Lead to have: 

• Leading or mentoring security engineers, SOC analysts, incident responders, or security operations teams. 

• Broad experience with EDR, SIEM, vulnerability management, identity security, and cloud security tooling. 

• Experience defining and maturing operational processes: alerting, triage, incident response, playbooks, tooling, and escalation workflows. 

• Understanding of SOC workflows, detection tuning/engineering, playbook development, and operational runbooks. 

• Experience leading or coordinating incident response efforts across cross-functional teams. 

• Demonstrated experience building high-performing, collaborative teams in fast-paced environments. 

• Championing a culture of continuous improvement, and operational excellence. 

• Cloud security (AWS + M365), identity management (Entra ID, SSO, conditional access), and data protection desirable. 

• Automation with Python or PowerShell desirable. 

What you’ll get 

You’ll join a culture of collaboration and excellence, where you’ll be surrounded by curious thinkers and creative problem solvers. Driven by a passion for continuous improvement, you’ll thrive in a supportive, high-performing environment alongside talented colleagues, working collectively to tackle some of the most complex problems in the financial markets. 

In return for your expertise, you will have access to a range of Optiver perks, including: 

• A performance-based bonus structure unmatched anywhere in the industry. 

• The chance to work alongside diverse and intelligent peers in a rewarding environment. 

• Training, mentorship and personal development opportunities. 

• Daily breakfast, lunch and an in-house barista. 

• Gym membership plus weekly in-house chair massages. 

• Regular social events, including a company trip every two years. 

Optiver is committed to diversity and inclusion. We encourage applications from candidates of all backgrounds, and welcome requests for reasonable adjustments during the process. 

Questions? Get in touch with the recruitment team at careers@optiver.com.au.