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title: 'Senior Trading System Support Engineer at FalconX'
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# Senior Trading System Support Engineer at FalconX

- **Company:** FalconX
- **Location:** Bengaluru, India
- **Posted:** 2026-04-07
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-10-14
- **Apply:** https://job-boards.greenhouse.io/falconx/jobs/4680827005

## Job description

Who are we?

FalconX is a pioneering team of operators, investors, and builders committed to revolutionizing institutional access to the crypto markets. Operating at the intersection of traditional finance and 
cutting-edge technology, FalconX addresses the industry's foremost challenges: Navigating the digital asset market can be complex and fragmented, with limited products and services that support trading strategies, structures, and liquidity found in conventional financial markets. As a comprehensive solution for all digital asset strategies from start to scale, FalconX operates as the connective tissue empowering clients with seamless navigation through the ever-
evolving cryptocurrency landscape.

## Responsibilities

- Be part of a trading systems engineering team, dedicated to building out the core trading platforms.
- Work closely with cross functional teams to improve the system reliability, scalability and security.
- Engage in and improve the quality supporting the platform.
- Build and manage systems, infrastructure and applications through automation.
- Provide operational support to internal teams working on the platform.
- Work on improvements to bring in high efficiency, reduce latency, deploy systems faster.
- Practice sustainable incident response and blameless postmortems.
- Together with your engineering team, you will share an on-call rotation and be an escalation contact for service incidents.
- Implement and maintain rigorous security best practices across all infrastructure, with a focus on minimizing attack surface and ensuring data integrity.
- Monitor system health and performance with a keen eye for identifying and resolving issues before they affect trading activity.
- Manage user queries and service requests (often requiring in depth analysis of the technical and/or business logic of our systems).
- Proactive approach to problem analysis and resolution of production incidents.
- Manage Issue tracking and prioritisation of day to day production incidents.
- Manage platform trading support initiatives (e.g. platform monitoring, reporting, release automation).

## Minimum Qualification

- Bachelors with 5+ years of working experience as Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) / Devops Engineer
- Strong knowledge of Linux system internals (kernels, memory management, file systems & network I/O optimization) as well as bash scripting.
- Minimum 5+ years experience in a Front Office Trading Floor or related application support experience.
- Need to be available to work in US (Night) Shift
- Good product knowledge in financial instruments including experience in managing front to back trading lifecycle and familiar with order life cycle (Equities, FX, Crypto etc).
- Experience with electronic trading platforms and OMS/EMS systems.
- Knowledge of ITIL practices including Incident, Problem and Change management.
- Experience with system monitoring platforms.
- Proven expertise optimizing systems for lowest latency performance and productionizing trading systems, from initial concept to full deployment, including on-prem and colocation.
- Strong working knowledge of network communications fundamentals TCP/IP and UDP
- Knowledge of FIX protocol, as well as familiarity with low latency multicast with Aeron.
- Strong skills around observability, debugging and performance tuning, with a willingness to dive-deep to determine the root cause,
- Effective communicator, with the ability to explain root causes in plain language, then outline plans and recommendations to remediate and ultimately to execute plans that systematically resolve issues.
- Demonstrated ability to build tools that enable rapid operational triage; leveraging logs, performance telemetry metrics and traces to make Grafana dashboards (or similar)
- Strong experience deploying and managing Cloud infrastructure with providers like AWS, Azure and/or GCP (accounts, profiles, IAM roles, Policies, service classes, instance types, etc.)
- Strong experience adapting workloads to use Cloud Native technologies, like kubernetes and docker etc. (Dockerfile, docker-compose, helm charts, deploy manifest, ingress wiring, service mesh, etc.)
- Expertise using devops deployment tooling, like Github Actions, Jenkins, ArgoCD and Ansible.
- Hands-on experience developing in one or more programming languages: C, C++, Java, Python, or Go.
- Proficient in utilizing C++ build systems such as CMake and building CI/CD pipelines for trading systems.
- Working knowledge of key backing services like mysql, PostgresDB, Redis, MongoDB, DynamoDB, Kafka, RabbitMQ, etc.

Key attributes critical to success:

- Strong interpersonal skills and the ability to communicate confidently and clearly with internal teams and external counterparts..
- Ability to analyse complex scenarios from both a technical and business perspective and deliver solutions.
- A sense of urgency, and an ability to deliver to deadlines in an environment where multiple competing requirements are a part of the job.
- Proactivity and a strong ownership ethos, ensuring that queries are resolved through to completion.
- Desire and ability to deliver improvements to the platform.

## Preferred Qualification

- Extensive experience with DevOps for Deployment automation and App level support, as well as SRE and/or Linux systems Administrator for systems and infrastructure level support.
- Extensive experience in a Low Latency Electronic trading environment, where high performance is critical at all stages of the infrastructure, network and application design and implementation.
- Expertise in developing advanced observability capabilities (USE-RED signals, Tracing, front end observability etc)

Bonus Points:

- Experience with hardware acceleration technologies (FPGAs, GPUs, LPU, TPU).
- Experience with financial data security regulations (PCI DSS, SOC 2).
- Familiarity with algorithmic trading strategies and quantitative analysis concepts.

Notice at Collection and Privacy Policy

Applicants located in California and/or applying to a role based in California, please refer to our Notice at Collection and Privacy Policy [here](https://www.google.com/url?q=https://docs.google.com/document/d/14H2RKQ1L1ezo605QXotmqxCOnKgIuv21oB-95zR7_0I/edit?usp%3Dsharing&sa=D&source=calendar&ust=1715533493387657&usg=AOvVaw1Q6amAagRdjSqTfoecQ4aY).

Inclusivity Statement

FalconX is committed to building a diverse, inclusive, equitable, and safe workspace for all people. Our roles are intended for people from all walks of life. We encourage all those interested in applying to our organization to submit an application regardless if you are missing some of the listed background requirements, skills, or experiences!

As part of our commitment to inclusivity, FalconX would like to acknowledge that the EEOC survey has limited potential responses that you can select. For legal reasons, FalconX must use this language to align with federal requirements, however, we want to ensure that you are able to provide a response to our own voluntary survey questions about your identity that best aligns with your most true self.

FalconX is an equal opportunity employer and will not discriminate against an applicant or employee based on race, color, religion, national origin, ancestry, ethnicity, sex (including gender, pregnancy, sexual orientation, and gender identity), age, physical or mental disability, veteran or military status, genetic information, citizenship, or any other legally-recognized protected basis under federal, state, or local law.

Applicants with disabilities may be entitled to reasonable accommodation under the Americans with Disabilities Act and other applicable state or local laws. A reasonable accommodation is a change in the way things are normally done which will ensure an equal employment opportunity without imposing undue hardship on FalconX. Please inform FalconX’s People team at recruiting@falconx.io, if you need assistance with participating in the application process.

## About FalconX

## Company Overview
- **One-liner**: FalconX is the largest institutional digital assets prime brokerage, providing trading, financing, custody, and capital solutions to the world’s top financial institutions.
- **Entity Type**: Private (Series D, $430M total funding)
- **Headquarters**: San Francisco, California, USA
- **Founded**: 2018
- **Founders**: Raghu Yarlagadda (CEO) and Prabhakar Reddy

## Core Business
- **Primary industries**: Digital Assets / Crypto Prime Brokerage, Financial Technology (FinTech), Capital Markets Infrastructure
- **Target customers**: B2B — exclusively institutional clients including asset managers, hedge funds, family offices, venture funds, miners, protocols, banks, retail platforms, corporate treasuries, and fintechs
- **Mission statement**: Architecting the financial infrastructure that will define markets for decades to come — building the backbone of global markets with greater transparency, efficiency, and access across digital and traditional finance.

## Products & Services
- **Prime Brokerage**: The core offering — a comprehensive prime brokerage platform providing deep liquidity, financing, and advanced technology solutions to institutions. Includes spot, derivatives, foreign exchange, and an EMS (Execution Management System).
- **FalconX 360**: All-in-one platform for seamless electronic trading, financing, and operations.
- **Trading**: 24/7 trading and operational coverage across 400+ tokens. Consistently #1 in institutional options block volume (based on Paradigm Leaderboard, 2025 YTD).
- **Financing**: Margin loans, OTC lending, DMA loans, flexible settlement, one-click borrow, cross-margining.
- **Custody**: Integrated custody and staking solutions.
- **ETF Solutions**: Liquidity provision and hedging solutions for ETF issuers and market makers.
- **Direct Market Access (DMA)**: Low-latency access to multiple exchanges and liquidity venues.
- **Structured Products & Yield Generation**: Tailored yield and structured product solutions.
- **Research & Insights**: Weekly market commentary and daily trader insights.

## Market Standing
- **Valuation**: $8 billion (as of Series D in 2022)
- **Key Metric**: Over $2.5 trillion in cumulative trading volume since inception
- **Total Funding**: $430M raised across Series A, B, C, and D
- **Notable Investors/Partners**: Investors include GIC, B Capital Group, Tiger Global, Accomplice, Coinbase Ventures, and others. FalconX is a CFTC-registered swap dealer.
- **Growth Signals**: 350+ employees globally, 35% YoY headcount growth, 7 global offices across major financial hubs (New York, San Francisco, London, Malta, India, Singapore, Hong Kong), 25 languages spoken across the team.

## Competitive Advantages
- **Scale & Liquidity**: The largest institutional crypto prime brokerage with $2.5T+ in trading volume and deep liquidity across 400+ tokens.
- **Institutional Credibility**: CFTC-registered swap dealer; serves the world’s top asset managers, hedge funds, and banks.
- **Proprietary Technology**: Built by engineers, technologists, and traders — a robust risk engine designed to help clients scale safely and maximize capital efficiency.
- **Market Leadership**: #1 in institutional options block volume (Paradigm Leaderboard, 2025 YTD).
- **Diversification**: Revenue diversified across products, geographies, and counterparties, built for stability and longevity.
- **Track Record**: Led by seasoned traders and analysts who have navigated every market cycle over the past 7+ years.

## Strategic Focus
- **Global Expansion**: Active in key global markets with offices in US, APAC, and Europe, including recent General Manager appointments for APAC & Middle East and Custody.
- **Infrastructure Buildout**: Continuing to build the institutional-grade infrastructure that bridges digital assets and traditional finance.
- **Product Expansion**: Deepening ETF solutions, structured products, and financing offerings for institutional clients.
- **Risk Management**: Maintaining a proprietary risk engine as a core differentiator to help clients manage volatility.

## Why Work Here
- **Culture**: Described as a community of builders defining the next era of global markets. Values include: Be an Entrepreneur, Drive Bold Outcomes, Iterate with Speed, Be One Team, Think Big.
- **Remote/Hybrid**: Hybrid model with major hubs in San Francisco, New York, Chicago, London, Malta, India, Singapore, and Hong Kong. Some roles are remote-friendly.
- **Benefits**: Comprehensive health coverage (medical, dental, vision), competitive salaries, equity & ownership, retirement support, learning & development wallet ($), mental health resources, parental benefits, flexible time off, charitable donation matching (up to $20K annually).
- **Team**: 350+ employees, 25 languages spoken, 40 interest groups, 35% YoY headcount growth. Highly cross-functional and global.
- **Engineering Culture**: Built by engineers, technologists, and traders. Engineers work on a proprietary risk engine, low-latency trading systems, and the core prime brokerage platform. Emphasis on solving complex problems at scale.

## Sources
1. [falconx.io](https://www.falconx.io/about-us)
2. [falconx.io](https://www.falconx.io/)
3. [falconx.io](https://www.falconx.io/work-with-us)
4. [falconx.io](https://www.falconx.io/open-roles)
5. [linkedin.com](https://www.linkedin.com/company/thefalconx)

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