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# Data - Site Reliability Engineer at Optiver Private Jobs

- **Company:** Optiver Private Jobs
- **Location:** Sydney New South Wales, Australia
- **Posted:** 2026-07-22
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-09-09
- **Apply:** https://job-boards.greenhouse.io/optiverprivate/jobs/8646459002

## Job description

## 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

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.

## Who You Are

- 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++).

- Strong focus on automation, system resilience and continuous improvement.

- Passionate about data quality, observability and performance optimization.

- Structured and methodical in problem-solving, with strong debugging skills.

- Excellent communication skills and a collaborative, proactive mindset.

Nice to have:

- Experience with Databricks, data observability platforms or distributed/cloud-based data systems.

- Familiarity with alerting and monitoring tools (e.g. Grafana, Prometheus, Airflow or similar).

- Exposure to financial data pipelines or low-latency trading environments.

## 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. 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.

If you’re passionate about supporting reliable, high-performance data systems and want your work to directly impact trading outcomes, we’d love to hear from you.

Apply now and help us build the next evolution of Optiver’s global data platform.

Optiver is committed to [diversity and inclusion](https://optiver.com/diversity-statement/). 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

## About Optiver Private Jobs

## Company Overview
- **One-liner**: Optiver is a technology-driven global market maker that provides liquidity and accurate pricing across exchanges using advanced quantitative research, low-latency engineering, and risk management.
- **Entity Type**: Private (bootstrapped, no external funding disclosed)
- **Headquarters**: Amsterdam, Netherlands (with major offices in Chicago, Austin, Sydney, Shanghai, Singapore, and London)
- **Founded**: 1986
- **Founders**: Johann Kaemingk, Arnold van der Woude, and Juul Jansen (original founders of the Amsterdam trading floor)

## Core Business
- **Primary industries**: Financial services, market making, proprietary trading, quantitative finance
- **Target customers**: Exchanges, institutional investors, brokers (B2B/wholesale); as a liquidity provider, Optiver serves the broader financial ecosystem
- **Mission or purpose**: "To constantly improve the market by injecting liquidity, providing accurate pricing, increasing transparency, and acting as a stabilising force no matter the market conditions."

## Products & Services
- **Market Making**: Pricing and trading a broad universe of instruments — options, ETFs, equities, bonds, currencies — across more than 100 global exchanges
- **Quantitative Research**: Using deep learning, LLMs, statistical modelling, and reinforcement learning to extract predictive signals from market and alternative data
- **Low-Latency Technology**: Building proprietary high-speed trading systems with C++, FPGA hardware, and large-scale data platforms
- **Risk Management**: Sophisticated real-time exposure management and probabilistic pricing models

## Market Standing
- **Valuation / Market Cap**: Not publicly available (private firm)
- **Key Metric**: Executes over 10 million trades daily; connects to 70+ exchanges as a trusted market maker (as stated on the company website)
- **Notable Investors/Partners**: None (self-funded); partners include exchanges globally
- **Growth Signals**: Continues to expand offices (Austin opened as innovation hub), invests heavily in machine learning and AI workflows, and maintains consistent hiring across trading, research, and engineering teams worldwide

## Competitive Advantages
- **40 years of compounding market experience and historical data**: Decades of proprietary market data and broker relationships provide a foundation for predictive models that newer firms lack.
- **Technology-first culture**: In-house FPGA, C++, and large-scale data engineering teams build systems where a 1% improvement shows up across millions of live decisions — giving a measurable edge.
- **Global scale with local expertise**: A network of offices in different time zones and regulatory regimes (US, Europe, APAC) enables 24/7 trading and adaptation to local market structures.
- **Attracts top talent**: Known for highly competitive compensation, global profit sharing, and a collaborative, non-hierarchical environment that draws engineers, quants, and traders from top universities and tech companies.

## Strategic Focus
- **Deepening AI/ML integration**: Expanding use of machine learning, LLMs, and reinforcement learning in pricing and signal generation.
- **Innovation in hardware**: Continued investment in FPGA acceleration and low-latency network infrastructure to maintain millisecond-level advantages.
- **Talent growth**: Scaling offices in growth hubs like Austin and Shanghai, with a focus on quantitative research, software/hardware engineering, and data science.
- **Global expansion**: Connecting to new exchanges and instrument classes to broaden liquidity provision.

## Why Work Here
- **Culture**: Described as "collaboration and excellence" with "curious thinkers and creative problem-solvers"; a flat structure where engineers work directly with traders.
- **Work policy**: Hybrid/in-office depending on role; offices offer extensive perks (breakfast, lunch, snacks, social events, clubs, sporting leagues) and 25 paid vacation days plus market holidays.
- **Compensation**: Highly competitive base salaries (e.g., FPGA Engineer base $200k in Chicago), discretionary bonuses, global profit-sharing pool, 401k match up to 50%, and comprehensive health/benefits.
- **Engineering culture**: Emphasis on low-level systems, FPGAs, C++, and big data; teams own projects from concept to production with rapid experimentation cycles.
- **Global mobility**: Opportunities to rotate or relocate between offices in Chicago, Austin, Sydney, Shanghai, Singapore, and Amsterdam.

## Sources
1. [optiver.com](https://www.optiver.com/)
2. [optiver.com/join-us](https://www.optiver.com/join-us/)
3. [optiver.com/join-us/jobs](https://www.optiver.com/join-us/jobs/)
4. [greenhouse.io (Optiver Private Jobs) - FPGA Engineer posting](https://job-boards.greenhouse.io/optiverprivate/jobs/8375608002)

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