Staff Enterprise Engineer

About the role

Flow Traders is seeking a Staff Enterprise Engineer to join their growing team in Amsterdam. This role focuses on building and maintaining the enterprise infrastructure that supports the firm's trading operations and business applications. The engineer will work across large-scale distributed systems, ensuring reliability, performance, and security of critical platforms that drive daily business operations. You will collaborate closely with cross-functional teams including developers, operations, and security to design and implement solutions that meet the demanding needs of a fast-paced financial services environment.

Key facts

What you'll do

Design and operate enterprise-scale infrastructure that supports trading and business applications across the organization

Lead architectural decisions for platform reliability, scalability, and performance across all engineering teams

Partner with development teams to deploy, manage, and optimize services in production environments

Automate infrastructure provisioning and configuration management processes to reduce manual operational effort significantly

Monitor system health and performance metrics, responding to incidents and outages with urgency

Build and maintain reliable CI/CD pipelines for consistent, repeatable, and high-quality software delivery

Evaluate and integrate new technologies and tools that improve operational efficiency and system resilience

Document infrastructure architecture, runbooks, and operational procedures to support team knowledge sharing effectively

Mentor junior engineers and contribute to a culture of continuous learning and engineering excellence

Collaborate with security teams to ensure all infrastructure meets compliance and access control standards

Drive capacity planning and resource optimization to support growing business demands and traffic patterns

Participate in architecture reviews and provide technical guidance on enterprise platform direction and strategy

Own and improve service level agreements and escalation procedures for critical infrastructure components

Contribute to disaster recovery planning and business continuity strategies for enterprise systems and data

Requirements

A strong background in systems engineering, computer science, or a related technical discipline with relevant industry experience

Solid experience in managing large-scale distributed systems in production environments with high availability and fault tolerance

Demonstrated proficiency with Linux system administration and core networking fundamentals in enterprise or cloud environments

Strong familiarity with containerization and orchestration platforms such as Kubernetes in production deployment scenarios

Substantial hands-on experience with infrastructure-as-code tools and configuration management systems for automated cloud provisioning

Strong ability to troubleshoot complex issues across multi-tier application stacks under tight operational deadlines

Excellent written and verbal communication skills for effective cross-team collaboration, documentation, and knowledge transfer

Comfortable working in a high-pressure environment with shifting priorities and production incident response responsibilities

Experience with version control systems and collaborative development workflows in a team setting

Strong problem-solving skills and a methodical approach to debugging and root cause analysis

A proactive mindset with the ability to work independently and take ownership of infrastructure projects

Familiarity with agile development methodologies and participation in sprint planning and retrospective meetings

Nice to have

Prior experience in financial services or proprietary trading firms is considered a strong advantage

Knowledge of low-latency systems and performance optimization techniques for high-frequency trading platforms

Familiarity with major cloud providers including AWS or GCP for hybrid infrastructure deployments

Active contributions to open-source projects or community infrastructure tooling demonstrate technical initiative and curiosity

A strong interest in financial markets and electronic trading infrastructure is welcomed

Skills & tools

Linux operating systems and server administration in enterprise and cloud environments

Kubernetes and container orchestration frameworks for managing distributed workloads at scale

Terraform or similar infrastructure-as-code platforms for declarative provisioning and configuration

CI/CD tooling such as Jenkins or GitLab CI for building automated delivery pipelines

Monitoring and observability stacks including Prometheus and Grafana for system health tracking

Networking protocols and distributed systems concepts for designing scalable and resilient infrastructure

Scripting languages such as Python or Bash for automation and operational tasks

Version control systems like Git and collaborative development workflows for team productivity

Practical notes

This role is based in Amsterdam with on-site presence expected at the Flow Traders office

The team operates in a fast-paced trading environment with strict uptime and reliability requirements

Candidates should be prepared to participate in on-call rotation for production system incidents and outages

Flow Traders offers a collaborative engineering culture with opportunities for professional development and long-term career growth

Flow Traders values diversity and inclusion, welcoming candidates from a wide range of backgrounds