Operations Internships

Autumn Compass is an algorithmic trading firm combining the disciplines of software engineering, data science and economic theory to develop highly automated and profitable trading strategies. With no external clients, a flat management structure and an SRE culture in the team, engineers have the autonomy and support to innovate effectively and make an impact throughout the business.

As a trading operations engineer, you will oversee the effective operation of our full low-latency production stack, colocated at stock exchanges. Our ecosystem of high performance applications transact millions of dollars each day and form the core of our business. Your role in ensuring the reliability and performance of these systems is integral to our ongoing success.

Salary: $100k base + super + profit share

What you will do

• Manage critical application configurations enabling our trading strategies

• Support applications trading in real-time production environments and build tools to ensure ongoing reliability and stability during market hours

• Use industry standard tools and services such as Prometheus and Grafana to provide monitoring and issue identification to ensure visibility and robust performance

• Collaborate with engineers and trading specialists
  

What you bring

• Bachelor’s degree in computer science, engineering, information technology or similar

• Experience in Python script development and testing, Linux proficiency

• Interest in real-time trading systems and financial markets

• Clear communicator with strong attention to detail and a proactive mindset

• Useful but not required: SRE/DevOps/support experience, familiarity with trading concepts, IP networking, AWS

Job Requirements

This role is a full-time permanent position open to Australian and New Zealand citizens and permanent residents.