Site Reliability Engineer

About Flowdesk

At Flowdesk, we are building the infrastructure powering the next era of global finance. As a full-service digital asset trading and technology firm, we provide liquidity solutions, OTC trading, and market infrastructure that connect digital assets to global markets with institutional-grade precision, transparency, and scale. Flowdesk combines expertise from traditional finance, algorithmic trading, and blockchain technology to deliver always-on trading capabilities across the digital asset ecosystem.

Founded in 2020, we are a global team supporting institutions, exchanges, and token issuers to enable a tokenized financial markets ecosystem.

Why join Flowdesk? You’ll be joining a company operating at the intersection of finance, technology, and crypto; solving complex market problems, building critical infrastructure, and helping shape how digital assets connect to global liquidity. We move fast, think long term, and work with a strong ownership mindset across engineering, trading, product, operations, and business teams.

Role Description

As a Core SRE Engineer at Flowdesk, you will be at the heart of our infrastructure operations, responsible for the reliability, performance, and scalability of our global high-frequency trading platform.

Reporting to Flowdesk’s head of Infrastructure and working in close collaboration with the Engineering, Trading, and Data teams, you will play a crucial role in maintaining, enhancing, and scaling the critical systems that power our operations.

Key Responsibilities

Infrastructure Management & Reliability

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• Maintain and optimize critical infrastructures including , cloud infrastructures, data pipelines, and core trading systems
  
• Monitor and optimize network infrastructure to ensure peak performance and minimal downtime
  
• Ensure reliability, security, scalability, and performance of the company’s essential systems
  
• Participate in day-to-day operational activities and incident management
  

Kubernetes & Orchestration

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• Develop and maintain in-house Kubernetes operators to manage our evolving stack
  
• Manage containerized workloads and ensure smooth deployments
  

Automation & DevOps

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• Improve and add new features to our CI/CD systems (FluxCD, Github Actions, Python scripting)
  
• Implement robust monitoring solutions using Prometheus, Grafana, and similar technologies
  
• Advance DevOps practices, application-level reliability, and observability
  

Collaboration & Innovation

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• Engage with Flowdesk’s teams to understand their needs and deliver technical solutions
  
• Provide technical support that enhances operational capabilities across teams
  
• Propose improvements and bring innovative ideas to enhance performance and reliability
  
• Explain technical concepts effectively to non-technical stakeholders
  

Requirements

Essential Experience

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• Bare Metal Infrastructure : Deep proficiency with bare metal deployments, cloud architectures, network configurations, and Terraform provisioners

  
  

• Kubernetes Expertise : Deep experience with Kubernetes architecture globally

  
  

• Systems & Network Management : Knowledge of network infrastructure administration, especially for ultra-low latency setups and interconnects.

  
  

• Cloud Infrastructure : Experience with cloud services (AWS, GCP) and infrastructure-as-code tools (Terraform, Ansible)

  
  

• Cloud Infrastructure : Experience with cloud services (AWS, GCP) and infrastructure-as-code tools (Terraform, Ansible)

  
  

• Monitoring & Observability : Hands-on experience with monitoring solutions (Prometheus, Grafana) and implementing proactive detection systems

  
  

Highly Valued

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• Experience with CI/CD pipelines, FluxCD, and Github Actions
  
• Comfortable coding in languages like Golang, Rust, or Python for infrastructure automation and tooling
  
• DevOps methodologies and practices
  
• Experience working in a trading or high-frequency trading environment
  
• Experience with ultra-low latency systems and network optimization
  
• Knowledge of FinOps and cost optimization strategies
  
• Performance tuning in high-throughput environments
  

Personal Attributes

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• Excellent communication skills with ability to explain complex technical concepts to non-technical audiences
  
• Strong organizational and time management skills with ab