--- title: 'Platform Engineer at Maven' canonical: 'https://feeny.ai/job/platform-engineer-maven-chicago-scpjfr9ppnc2' type: 'job' last_seen: '2026-09-21' --- # Platform Engineer at Maven - **Company:** Maven - **Location:** Chicago, IL - **Posted:** 2026-09-15 - **Last confirmed live:** 2026-09-21 - **Apply:** https://job-boards.greenhouse.io/mavensecuritiesholdingltd/jobs/8185796 ## Job description Senior Platform Engineer ## About Maven Maven is a market-leading proprietary trading firm deploying its own capital across discretionary, systematic, and market-making strategies. Backed by deep expertise in trading, technology, and research, we are relentlessly focused on improving liquidity across global listed derivatives. Through advanced execution and pricing technologies, we improve how financial markets operate. Maven has a culture that is relaxed and informal but highly rewarding of strong performance. We have offices in London, Amsterdam, Hong Kong, New York and Chicago. Technology is central to how the firm trades, and the people who join get real ownership of what they work on. The team Platform Engineering builds and operates the environment Maven's applications run on: 22 Kubernetes clusters across Europe, the US and Asia, all on-premises, supporting over 1,100 production deployments for 44 teams and desks. Teams own their own applications and deploy them themselves. Our job is to build the systems and ways of working that let them do that without coming through us: hosted developer environments, a safe path to production, and the clusters those workloads land on. Linux and networking sit with dedicated teams; we sit between that layer and the people building on top of it. We still get pulled into production problems that cut across stacks, but the aim is always the same: turn a recurring need into something a team can do themselves. ## The role This role is based in our Chicago office. You work US hours with the desks here: understand what they are trying to do, turn that into something they can run themselves, and deal with the production problems that cannot wait for London. You will work with Platform colleagues in London and Asia, and with the Chicago infrastructure and trading technology teams. ## What you will be doing - Sitting with Chicago teams to understand what they are trying to accomplish, including the parts they have not spelled out, and turning that into a requirement the platform team can act on - Designing better ways of working for those teams: hosted developer environments (Coder), the path from a change to production, templates and checks that make the safe way the easy one - Recommending how we apply what we already have, and pushing back when a request is the wrong solution - Following through across the timezone gap so things do not stall when London has gone home - Being available in US hours when a deployment or application misbehaves, and handling the ones that cannot wait - Contributing to the shared platform rather than a US-specific fork. One repository, one set of standards - Working with the Chicago Linux, network and storage teams on anything that spans the hosts and the cluster ## What we are looking for Around six years in a platform, SRE, DevOps or development role. Depth matters more than the exact number. - Comfortable working with traders, researchers and developers: you can listen to a messy request, find the actual problem, and explain a proposed approach in their terms - Able to recommend a direction and to say no when the ask is unreasonable or would make things worse - Persistent follow-up. A lot of this job is unfinished conversations across a six-hour gap. - Production Kubernetes: you have deployed to it, debugged a broken change, and can deal with an incident without waiting for someone else. You do not need to have run a fleet. - Comfortable with GitOps. We use ArgoCD, Helm and Kustomize; Terraform or similar experience transfers. - Able to write code to automate work. We use Python most of the time; Go is also useful. - Experience building a development or deployment process that other teams then ran themselves. ## Nice to have None of these are required. - Experience in a trading firm, or another environment where the users of the platform are close to the business. Useful, not required; we have hired well from outside finance. - Judgment about when to decide locally and when to wait for the rest of the team - Coder, Gitpod, Codespaces, or another hosted developer environment - Kubernetes on-premises or on bare metal - Observability stacks you have operated: Prometheus, Thanos, Grafana, OpenTelemetry or similar - Experience in a new or growing regional team - Experience using AI-powered tools to improve efficiency and workflows. ## What we can offer you - A great engineering environment whereby technology is key to our success. - The upside of start-up without the associated risks. - A great, friendly, informal, and highly rewarding culture. - Informal dress code, loads of free food and social events. - Fast-growing global firm with plenty of opportunity where you will have significant impact. Our Benefits At Maven, our goal is to create an environment that empowers and motivates our employees to maximise their potential. Our comprehensive benefits package is designed to optimise performance, reward our employees, and allow them time to pursue their passions. Salary Range: $150000 - $200000, plus a discretionary bonus. ## About Maven ## Company Overview - **One-liner**: Maven Securities is a market-leading proprietary trading firm that allocates internal capital between discretionary, systematic, and market-making strategies across global financial markets. - **Entity Type**: Private - **Headquarters**: London, England, United Kingdom - **Founded**: 2011 - **Founders**: Not publicly available ## Core Business - Primary industry/industries: Financial Services, Proprietary Trading, Market Making, Technology - Target customers: B2B (institutional), with the firm trading only its own capital (no external clients) - Mission or purpose statement: To be a market-leading proprietary trading business committed to realizing the full potential of its people, combining effective risk management with advanced technology to achieve trading excellence and consistent returns. ## Products & Services Maven operates as a multi-strategy proprietary trading firm. Its core activities include: - **Discretionary Trading**: Fundamental long/short equity strategies across global markets, managed by Portfolio Managers. - **Systematic Trading**: Quantitative strategies driven by data, research, and algorithms, including systematic equities. - **Market Making**: Providing liquidity in options and other financial instruments across European, US, and Asian markets. ## Market Standing - **Valuation/Market Cap**: Not disclosed (privately held) - **Key Metric**: Annual Revenue of $10.1M (estimated by LinkedIn); Total Funding: Not applicable (bootstrapped with internal capital) - **Notable Investors/Partners**: Not applicable (privately held, uses only group capital) - **Growth Signals**: - Headcount of 312 employees, with a yearly growth of +13.6% (+48 people) [linkedin.com](https://www.linkedin.com/company/maven-securities) - Active job postings have increased by +217.6% year-over-year [linkedin.com](https://www.linkedin.com/company/maven-securities) - Operates in 11 countries across 10 offices, including London (HQ), New York, Chicago, Amsterdam, Hong Kong, Monaco, and Singapore [linkedin.com](https://www.linkedin.com/company/maven-securities) - Strong talent pipeline from top competitors like Optiver, IMC Trading, Jane Street, and Morgan Stanley [linkedin.com](https://www.linkedin.com/company/maven-securities) ## Competitive Advantages - **Pure Proprietary Trading**: Maven trades only its own capital, eliminating conflicts of interest and allowing for long-term strategic thinking without external pressure. - **Technology-First Approach**: The firm considers itself as much a technology firm as a trading firm, investing heavily in advanced technology, data, and infrastructure to empower its traders and strategies [mavensecurities.com](https://www.mavensecurities.com/about-us/). - **Multi-Strategy Platform**: The ability to allocate capital across discretionary, systematic, and market-making strategies provides diversification and resilience. - **Strong Talent Magnet**: Attracts top talent from leading trading and financial firms globally, indicating a strong reputation and competitive compensation culture [linkedin.com](https://www.linkedin.com/company/maven-securities). - **Conservative Risk Management**: Meticulous and attentive execution paired with conservative risk management is a core part of their operational philosophy [linkedin.com](https://www.linkedin.com/company/maven-securities). ## Strategic Focus - **Continued Global Expansion**: Opening and growing offices in key financial hubs like Chicago, Amsterdam, and Hong Kong, indicating a focus on capturing market share in US and Asian markets. - **Technology Investment**: Heavy ongoing investment in technology roles (C++, Python, FPGA, Kubernetes, Linux, Network Engineering) to maintain a competitive edge in speed, data analysis, and infrastructure [job-boards.greenhouse.io](http://job-boards.greenhouse.io/mavensecuritiesholdingltd). - **Talent Acquisition**: A massive surge in hiring (+1700% monthly job posting trend) suggests aggressive scaling across all areas, particularly in quantitative research, trading, and technology [linkedin.com](https://www.linkedin.com/company/maven-securities). - **ESG and DEI Commitment**: Actively allocating capital and employee time to environmental, societal, and diversity, equity, and inclusion initiatives, signaling a focus on sustainable and ethical growth [mavensecurities.com](https://www.mavensecurities.com/about-us/). ## Why Work Here - **High-Impact Environment**: Work directly with internal capital on sophisticated trading strategies, with a flat structure that values autonomy and ownership. - **Technology-Driven Culture**: A strong emphasis on engineering and technology as core to the business, offering challenging roles in C++, Python, FPGA, and platform engineering. - **Global Opportunities**: With offices in London, New York, Chicago, Amsterdam, Hong Kong, and Monaco, there are opportunities for international mobility and exposure to global markets. - **Strong Compensation**: Competitive compensation is implied by the firm's ability to attract talent from top-tier firms like Jane Street, Optiver, and Goldman Sachs [linkedin.com](https://www.linkedin.com/company/maven-securities). - **Values-Driven**: The firm explicitly values integrity, humility, creativity, and discipline, aiming to balance bold ambition with a modest and supportive culture [mavensecurities.com](https://www.mavensecurities.com/our-values/). - **Work Policy**: Likely hybrid/office-based given the nature of trading (roles in Chicago, London, Amsterdam, New York, and Hong Kong are clearly location-specific). - **Employee Rating**: 4.1/5.0 on LinkedIn (108 reviews), with high marks for Work-Life (3.9), Compensation (3.8), and Culture (3.5) [linkedin.com](https://www.linkedin.com/company/maven-securities). ## Sources 1. [Maven Securities - About Us](https://www.mavensecurities.com/about-us/) 2. [Maven Securities - Our Values](https://www.mavensecurities.com/our-values/) 3. [Maven Securities - Job Openings (Greenhouse)](http://job-boards.greenhouse.io/mavensecuritiesholdingltd) 4. 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