Trading Engineer
- Level
- Mid
Not stated in the posting: salary, work type, visa.
Open. First seen 2 October 2026.
About the role
At IMC, technology is not a department; it’s at the heart of everything we do. Developed in-house, our innovative software makes millions of trading decisions daily, and we win by making better and faster decisions than our competition.
Our Trading Engineering team plays a critical role at the heart of our complex environment. Making sure that we can release daily in a safe and controlled manner is a vital responsibility, as well as ensuring high availability, stability and performance. The team works closely with traders and a wide range of technologists such as developers, systems engineers, network engineers and performance engineers in a diverse technical landscape. One where many components interface and manage a high-volume data flow over a low-latency infrastructure to execute our trading strategies.
Your Core Responsibilities:
- Troubleshooting and providing quick response to production issues but more importantly solving the root cause of problems in a structural way
- Helping eliminate downtime using the latest open source technologies, translating trading requests into concrete technical requirements, and working with focus teams to create and implement new sustainable solutions.
- Coordinate, prioritise and plan the changes to our trading software to ensure smooth exchange migrations and quick time to market for new features and software.
- Working closely with traders and quantitative researchers and a wide range of technologists such as developers, systems engineers, network engineers and performance engineers in a diverse technical landscape. One where many components interface and manage a high-volume data flow over a low-latency infrastructure to execute our trading strategies.
Your Skills and Experience:
- 2+ years of experience as an SRE or System Engineer or DevOps Engineer or MLOps Engineer
- Python and Bash scripting skills
- Experience with Kubernetes
- Solid understanding of the Linux Operating System
- Experience with building and maintaining Machine Learning pipelines is a plus
- Experience with database querying
- Basic understanding of TCP/IP protocols
- A knack for troubleshooting
- Strong interpersonal and communication skills
- A proactive attitude and a strong drive to learn and develop yourself
IMC's standard text
About Us
IMC is a research-driven trading firm where quantitative modeling, machine learning, and engineering shape how modern markets are traded. A stabilizing force in markets since 1989, we provide liquidity across trading venues, delivering the best outcome in value and risk management to investors. Using our own technology and capital, we build proprietary systems and algorithms that operate across global markets.
Our researchers, traders, and engineers work as a collective, combining rapid experimentation, advanced infrastructure, and real-time feedback to turn insight into execution and execution into advantage.
What this role asks for
Particular to this role
MLOps · Networking
Rare in IMC's other 74 open postings.
In most of IMC's ads
Machine Learning · Python
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79% of this description is written for the role. The rest is IMC's standard text, folded away below.
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The team: Systems & Infrastructure HIRES STEADILY
This role is one of 17 open in Systems & Infrastructure. 5 were posted in the last 30 days and the oldest in January: a team that hires all year rather than one being built.
WHAT THE TEAM WORKS WITH, ACROSS ITS POSTINGS
Machine Learning (17 of 17), Linux (14 of 17), Python (14 of 17), Kubernetes (12 of 17), Bash (10 of 17), Prometheus (7 of 17), Docker (5 of 17)
OTHER ROLES ON THIS TEAM
- Site Reliability Engineer posted Oct 15
- Kubernetes Engineer posted Oct 13
- Site Reliablity Engineer posted Sep 30
- Trading Engineer posted Sep 25
- Site Reliability Engineer - Data Platform posted Sep 15
- Data Center Engineer posted Sep 4
- Data Center Engineer posted Aug 17
- Linux Engineer posted Aug 6
- IT Operations Engineer posted Aug 6
- Data Engineer - Infrastructure posted Aug 5
- HPC Systems Architect posted Jun 29
- Lead UX Designer posted Feb 12
- Trading Engineer - Execution posted Nov 3
- HPC Systems Architect posted Oct 22
- Data Engineer posted Jun 10
- Trading Engineer - Strategy posted Jan 15
From the team and dates on IMC's own job board.
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