Company Overview
Optiver is a leading global electronic market maker committed to improving financial markets by providing liquidity across various asset classes, including ESG products. As a trusted partner of exchanges, we ensure stable, transparent, and competitive markets, even during volatile times. Our mission is to create better access and prices for all. We operate globally with offices in Amsterdam, Sydney, Chicago, Austin, Taipei, Hong Kong, Shanghai, and London.
Network Engineer at Optiver Chicago: Build the Backbone of High-Frequency Trading
About the Role:
As a Network Engineer at Optiver Chicago, you’ll be crucial in designing, optimizing, and maintaining the high-performance networks that power our leading proprietary trading systems. Your work on our globally distributed infrastructure will directly impact our traders’ and engineers’ ability to operate at peak performance in a fast-paced, competitive market-making environment. We prioritize speed, reliability, and scalability in everything we do.
What You’ll Do:
- Provide expert network support for our high-frequency trading floor.
- Identify and implement network optimizations for enhanced performance.
- Automate network infrastructure tasks to eliminate manual processes.
- Assist with network upgrades, maintenance, and expansions.
- Ensure the seamless operation of our global WAN across data centers and collocations.
- Contribute to capacity planning, connectivity improvements, and traffic flow optimization.
- Participate in the standardization of our environments and our Infrastructure as Code vision.
Who You Are:
- Passionate about network performance, monitoring, and capacity planning.
- Experienced with LAN and WAN technologies.
- Deep understanding of network transport and routing protocols (TCP/UDP, OSPF, BGP, Multicast).
- Comfortable in a multi-vendor environment (Cisco, Arista, Palo Alto).
- Experience with network security and firewalls.
- Proficient with network monitoring and alerting tools.
- Strong communicator, able to explain complex technical concepts clearly.
- (Beneficial) Proficiency in Python scripting for automation.
- (Beneficial) Experience with low-latency networking, configuration management tooling, time-series databases, and centralized logging solutions.
What You’ll Gain:
Join a collaborative and high-performing culture with opportunities to work alongside top professionals from diverse backgrounds. You’ll tackle challenging problems in the financial markets and receive a highly competitive compensation package, including:
- Global profit-sharing and performance-based bonus.
- Generous 401(k) match.
- Comprehensive health, mental, dental, vision, disability, and life coverage.
- 25 paid vacation days plus market holidays.
- Extensive office perks (meals, snacks, social events, clubs, etc.).
Optiver is an equal opportunity employer committed to diversity and inclusion.