About the company
FalconX is the most advanced digital asset platform for institutions. We provide trade execution, credit & treasury management, prime offering and market making services. Given our global operations, industry-leading technology and deep liquidity, we have facilitated client transactions of $1 trillion in volume. Our products & services are regulated, compliant and trusted. We are a team of engineers, product builders, institutional sales and trading leaders, operations experts, and business strategists. Our teammates have entrepreneurial experience and come from companies such as Google, Apple, Paypal, Citadel, Bridgewater, and Goldman Sachs. And, we embody our values: Think big; Drive bold outcomes; Be one team; Iterate with speed; and be an entrepreneur. We prioritize learning. Outcomes are mission-critical, but we also believe that learning in success and in failure will drive our continued success. Our industry is emergent - thereās no shortage of experiments to get involved with and to continue growing and learning together.
Job Summary
Responsibilities
šEngage in and improve the whole lifecycle of servicesāfrom inception and design, through deployment, operation and refinement. Embed with Engineering teams to apply industry best practices. šBuild and manage systems, infrastructure and applications through automation šSupport services before they go live through activities such as system design consulting, developing software platforms and frameworks, capacity planning and launch reviews šMaintain services once they are live by measuring and monitoring availability, latency and overall system health šScale systems sustainably through mechanisms like automation, and evolve systems by pushing for changes that improve reliability and velocity šPractice sustainable incident response and blameless postmortems šTogether with your engineering team, you will share an on-call rotation and be an escalation contact for service incidents
Minimum Qualification
šBS in Computer Science with 7 years+ or MS with 3 year working experience as Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) šExperience with programming in at least one of the following languages: C, C++, Java, Python, or Go. šStrong skills around observability, debugging and performance tuning, willing to dive into understanding, debugging, and improving any layer of the stack šExperience in data transformation & ETL on large data sets using open technologies like Spark, SQL and Python šExperience in infrastructure like AWS, GCP, Azure, mysql, kubernetes, Docker etc šDeep knowledge of Linux internals and networking protocols such as TCP/IP šExperience in advanced Data Lake, Data Warehouse concepts & Data Modeling experience (i.e. Relational, Dimensional, internet-scale logs) šExperience with programming in at least one of the following languages: C, C++, Java, Python, or Go. š3+ years of complex SQL with strong knowledge of SQL optimization and understanding of logical & physical execution plans šNetworking protocols such as TCP/IP
