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title: 'Senior Systems Architect at TXSE'
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# Senior Systems Architect at TXSE

- **Company:** TXSE
- **Location:** New York, NY
- **Compensation:** $200k–$300k
- **Employment:** full-time
- **Work type:** hybrid
- **Posted:** 2026-04-01
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-09-09
- **Apply:** https://jobs.lever.co/txse/d4977f8f-b711-416e-b016-0581908541cf

## Job description

TXSE is building the next-generation exchange infrastructure to support transparent, efficient, and resilient capital markets. With SEC approval and $270MM in funding, we are currently hiring a Senior Systems Architect to help with a greenfield infrastructure build out.

## Key Responsibilities

- Platform Architecture & Engineering: Design, implement, and evolve highly available infrastructure platforms that support mission-critical trading, market data, and financial services workloads across on-premises and cloud environments.
- OpenShift & Kubernetes: Architect, deploy, and maintain resilient Red Hat OpenShift and Kubernetes platforms for low-latency, high-throughput production environments.
- Linux Engineering: Provide senior-level engineering leadership for Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) systems, including kernel tuning, performance optimization, patching strategy, lifecycle management, and operational standards.
- Market-Critical Infrastructure Services: Engineer and support core infrastructure services essential to distributed financial systems, including LDAP, Kerberos, SSSD, DNS, BIND, PowerDNS, NTP, Chrony, and PTP, with a focus on precision, availability, and operational integrity.
- Cloud & Hybrid Architecture: Design and operate secure AWS and Azure solutions, including hybrid and multi-cloud architectures that satisfy financial industry requirements for resilience, auditability, security, and business continuity.
- Enterprise Hardware & Storage: Lead the design, support, and optimization of infrastructure running on Dell PowerEdge servers and enterprise storage platforms, with emphasis on performance, replication, capacity planning, and fault tolerance.
- Automation & Platform Reliability: Develop and standardize infrastructure automation using Ansible, Jenkins, ArgoCD, GitOps, Terraform, Pulumi, and scripting frameworks to improve repeatability, speed, and operational consistency.
- Developer & Release Platform Integration: Manage GitHub Enterprise and related integrations, including SonarQube, Artifactory, and GitHub Actions runners, to enable secure and scalable software delivery workflows.
- Operational Resilience & Compliance: Ensure platforms are designed and operated to meet the security, availability, resiliency, and regulatory expectations of financial services and capital markets environments.
- Architecture Leadership: Establish design standards, reference architectures, and reusable engineering patterns that can be deployed consistently across multiple business and technology domains.
- Cross-Functional Partnership: Collaborate closely with trading, application development, production support, cybersecurity, network engineering, and infrastructure teams to deliver stable, performant, and scalable solutions aligned with front-office and enterprise priorities.

## Qualifications

- 10+ years of experience in Linux infrastructure engineering, systems engineering, or platform architecture roles.
- 5+ years of hands-on experience designing and supporting Red Hat OpenShift and/or Kubernetes in production.
- Strong experience supporting infrastructure in New York financial markets, including trading environments, market data platforms, exchange connectivity, or other latency- sensitive capital markets systems.
- Deep understanding of the operational demands of financial services environments, including high availability, change control, resiliency, audit, and regulatory considerations.
- Proven expertise in RHEL engineering, systems performance tuning, and production platform design.
- Strong background in building standardized, reusable architecture patterns with a “design once, use many” approach.
- Demonstrated experience with AWS and Azure, including secure networking, storage integration, identity controls, and hybrid deployment models.
- Advanced knowledge of enterprise compute and storage infrastructure, including Dell PowerEdge servers and Dell EMC storage platforms.
- In-depth knowledge of authentication, DNS, and time synchronization services in distributed, performance-sensitive environments.
- Strong proficiency in infrastructure automation and scripting using tools such as Ansible, Terraform, Pulumi, Bash, and Python.
- Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills, with the ability to engage effectively with engineering teams, operations teams, application owners, and business leadership.

## Preferred Experience

- Experience supporting infrastructure for equities, options, futures, fixed income, or other capital markets trading platforms.
- Familiarity with low-latency infrastructure design, market hours operational support, and production change controls in front-office environments.
- Experience designing platforms that support regulatory, surveillance, disaster recovery, and operational resiliency requirements in financial markets.
- Background leading engineering standards, architectural reviews, and platform modernization initiatives.

## About TXSE

## Company Overview
- **One-liner**: A national securities exchange headquartered in Dallas, Texas, built to bring real competition and choice to U.S. equity markets.
- **Entity Type**: Private (well-capitalized, backed by some of the largest financial institutions and liquidity providers)
- **Headquarters**: Dallas, Texas, USA
- **Founded**: Not publicly available (SEC approved recently; temporary headquarters established in Dallas)
- **Founders**: Not publicly available (leadership includes Lee as Chairman and CEO)

## Core Business
- Primary industry: Financial services / Securities exchange
- Target customers: B2B – U.S. and international issuers, investors, and market participants (including exchange-traded product sponsors)
- Mission or purpose statement: "Bringing greater competition, transparency, and choice to U.S. equity markets" (txse.com)

## Products & Services
- **Texas Stock Exchange (TXSE)**: A fully integrated, electronic, national securities exchange for listing and trading equities and exchange-traded products (ETPs). Provides quotation and trade-visibility services, issuer co-branding support, and a conference center for market events.

## Market Standing
- **Valuation/Market Cap**: Not disclosed (described as "the most well-capitalized equities exchange to ever be approved by the SEC")
- **Key Metric**: Total funding not publicly available; backed by "some of the largest financial institutions and liquidity providers in the world"
- **Notable Investors/Partners**: Strategic partners include major financial institutions and liquidity providers (names not specified in available materials)
- **Growth Signals**: Building the Texas Market Center (TMC) in Dallas; actively hiring across multiple roles (IT, Compliance, Engineering) in Dallas and New York; expanding its listing and trading ecosystem

## Competitive Advantages
- Only national securities exchange built, headquartered, and incorporated in Texas, offering a differentiated geographic and regulatory position.
- Issuer-aligned and transparent standards designed to compete with incumbent exchanges.
- Backed by deep-pocketed institutional investors, providing strong capitalization and credibility.
- Fully electronic infrastructure with a focus on modern market structure.

## Strategic Focus
- Current priorities include establishing the exchange as a viable alternative for corporate listings, expanding its suite of exchange-traded products, and building out the Texas Market Center as a physical hub for market ceremonies and issuer services.
- Growing the team across technology, compliance, operations, and trading to support exchange launch and ongoing operations.

## Why Work Here
- Opportunity to be part of a historic launch of a new national securities exchange, with the chance to shape its culture and technology from the ground up.
- Hybrid and on-site roles available in Dallas, TX and New York, NY (roles include Site Reliability Engineer, Senior Systems Architect, Director of Compliance).
- Leadership team combines deep expertise in market structure, regulation, and corporate governance.
- Culture emphasizes transparency, competition, and long-term alignment with issuers and investors.
- Perks not explicitly detailed, but the exchange is well-capitalized and growing, suggesting competitive compensation and a dynamic startup-like environment within a regulated industry.

## Sources
1. [txse.com/careers](https://www.txse.com/careers)
2. [jobs.lever.co/txse](https://jobs.lever.co/txse)
3. [txse.com](https://www.txse.com/)
4. [txse.com/about-us](https://www.txse.com/about-us)
5. [txse.com/leadership](https://www.txse.com/leadership)

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