Site Reliability Engineer
Qube Research & Technologies
Hong Kong
Qube Research & Technologies (QRT) is a global quantitative and systematic investment manager, operating in all liquid asset classes across the world. We are a technology- and data-driven group implementing a scientific approach to investing. Combining data, research, technology, and trading expertise has shaped our collaborative mindset, which enables us to solve the most complex challenges. QRT’s culture of innovation continuously drives our ambition to deliver high-quality returns for our investors.
You will join the Core Trading Platform team, which is responsible for the design and operation of QRT’s global electronic trading infrastructure. This team builds and maintains the ultra-low latency systems that underpin real-time trading, managing performance-critical workflows across global markets. You will work closely with developers, traders, and operations to optimise system behaviour, reduce latency, and ensure platform reliability at scale.
Build. Break. Investigate. Optimize. Repeat.
Own production
- Take responsibility for the health, stability and performance of critical trading systems.
- When things break, you're one of the people everyone wants in the room.
- When things don't break, it's often because of something you built.
- Chase down complex incidents that span applications, infrastructure, networks and market connectivity.
- Become a technical forensic investigator, uncovering root causes that aren't immediately obvious and turning every incident into a learning opportunity.
- If you have to do something twice, you'll probably automate it.
- Build tools, workflows and self-service capabilities that make systems easier to operate and engineers more productive.
- Design better monitoring, observability and alerting.
- Measure what matters.
- Reduce noise.
- Increase signal.
- Help us understand our systems before they fail rather than after they fail
- Our systems exist to support trading.
- You'll learn how orders move through the platform, how market data flows, how trading desks operate and why reliability matters to investment performance.
- Latency.
- Efficiency.
- Deployments.
- Troubleshooting workflows.
- Feedback loops.
- Engineering productivity.
- Nothing is ever "good enough."
- Enjoy taking things apart to understand how they work
- Automatically start troubleshooting when something looks wrong
- Find repetitive work deeply irritating and automate it away
- Get satisfaction from building reliable systems
- Prefer solving root causes instead of treating symptoms
- Love learning new technologies and diving into unfamiliar systems
- Can communicate clearly during high-pressure production events
- Strong software engineering skills in Python, C++, or another modern programming language
- Solid Linux systems knowledge
- Understanding of networking fundamentals including TCP/IP and multicast
- Experience troubleshooting distributed systems
- Familiarity with observability, monitoring and automation tooling
- A passion for engineering robust, scalable and operable systems
QRT is an equal opportunity employer. We welcome diversity as essential to our success. QRT empowers employees to work openly and respectfully to achieve collective success. In addition to professional achievement, we are offering initiatives and programs to enable employees achieve a healthy work-life balance.
Similar jobs
Hr & Operations Manager (Hong Kong)
About the jobDelart is home to a team of world-class engineers and project leaders dedicated to developing the next generation of advance...
Data Centre Facilities Engineer
About the positionWe are looking for an experienced Data Centre Facilities Engineer to join a highly technical group responsible for oper...
Senior Accountant
Who we areAbout BBPOSBBPOS is one of the world leaders in payment devices and the inventors of mPOS technology. BBPOS products are used b...
Project Coordinator - Hong Kong
About usAppnovation is the AI Product Company. Headquartered in Vancouver, Canada, with teams around the world, Appnovation builds AI pro...
Electrical Systems Specialist
Want to be a part of Asia Pacific & Middle East's (APME) largest, most innovative, and rapidly growing data centre company?AirTrunk is a ...
Hkg Wise January 2027
This is not a valid application route. Please apply for this program via the Programs page of our website.