Two Sigma Securities, Production Engineer

Overview

Two Sigma is a leading quantitative investment management and trading firm. The company applies a scientific approach to investing, combining cutting-edge technology, artificial intelligence, data science, and quantitative research with rigorous human inquiry to capitalize on market opportunities and deliver alpha for investors. Our team of engineers, quantitative researchers and data scientists looks beyond the traditional to test hypotheses and develop creative solutions to some of the world’s most complex economic problems.

Two Sigma Securities brings a scientific approach to systematic trading and risk management to make markets more efficient. Our team trades over 10,000 US equities and 4,000 listed options, leveraging our high performance trading system to execute over 850 million shares per day. We are entering an exciting growth phase and value the insights of our colleagues, encouraging innovation and ownership over work. New joiners use our proprietary platform to work on diverse projects, from building next generation trading technologies and researching novel AI and machine learning techniques to enhancing our strategies and deploying automation.

Location: London, United Kingdom

Responsibilities

• Develop and maintain scalable, ultra-low latency systems focused on automation, including deploying new features and fixes for a global multi-asset electronic trading business.
• Enhance real-time monitoring and refine incident and crisis management SLOs, diagnosing and resolving issues with intraday transactions.
• Design and implement architecture and support for the proprietary trading environment, including system design consulting, platform management, capacity planning, tools development, network and colocation site management, and vendor/exchange connectivity across three continents.
• Collaborate with software and infrastructure teams to define and improve technical and operational best practices.

Qualifications

• Minimum 1 year of experience required; 1–5 years of experience preferred in Production or Reliability Engineering.
• Bachelor’s with Honours in a relevant discipline.
• Ability to program (structured and object‑oriented) with one or more high-level languages (such as Python, Java, C++).
• Proven track record for automating processes combined with an algorithmic approach to solving problems.
• Ability to profile and debug applications in real time.
• Trading domain and order lifecycle management knowledge is a plus.

Equal Opportunity

We are proud to be an equal opportunity workplace. We do not discriminate based upon race, religion, color, national origin, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity/expression, age, veteran status, disability status, or any other legally protected characteristics.