Senior DevOps Engineer

At Auros, we’re dedicated to advancing the cryptocurrency ecosystem through unparalleled liquidity and market-making services. We’re one of the largest participants in the market, trading across 10+ global locations, facilitating 3-4% of global daily volumes, and have connectivity to over 50 venues. What sets us apart, though, is our culture. We believe in hiring smart people and empowering them to do their best work. From day one you’ll have the autonomy and support to really excel. Our relentless focus on delivery drives us to continuously push boundaries and achieve exceptional results, all while offering abundant opportunities for personal and professional growth in the dynamic realm of digital assets.

- Ensure the performance and reliability of mission-critical trading infrastructure by proactively identifying and resolving bottlenecks at all layers: compute, network, storage, and application. - Support, operate, and continuously improve highly available, low-latency systems under global trading load, with a strong focus on automation and enabling self-service for internal teams. - Participate in a day-time rotational on-call schedule, handling real-time operational incidents, root cause analysis, and long-term preventive improvements. - Use metrics and observability tools (Prometheus, Grafana, etc.) to detect anomalies, monitor performance trends, and support incident response. - Build, manage, and scale infrastructure-as-code using Terraform and configuration management tools like Ansible. - Collaborate closely with trading, engineering, and security teams to align infrastructure improvements with application demands. - Implement robust security practices, including IAM, threat detection, and secure CI/CD pipelines, to support high-trust production environments. - Apply low-level optimization strategies to improve throughput, reduce latency, and increase system efficiency across diverse environments. - Work closely with developers, traders and other staff to accomplish our firm’s goals.

- 5+ years in DevOps/SRE roles focused on high-performance, production-grade systems. - Proficiency in Linux admin and experience in managing AWS cloud infrastructure. - Proficiency with containerized workloads (Kubernetes essential). - Strong scripting and automation capabilities using Python and Bash; knowledge of Go, JavaScript, or TypeScript is a plus. - Hands-on experience with observability stacks (Prometheus, Grafana) and production incident response. - Hands-on experience with AWS (essential), Google Cloud, Azure (desirable). - Experience with automation and IaC tools; Ansible, Terraform is essential. - Understanding of performance engineering at both the system and network levels, including tuning, profiling, and capacity planning. - Knowledge of cloud networking, security best practices, IAM and SIEM tools. - While not a requirement, experience working in, or a strong interest in cryptocurrency and finance in general is desired.

- Work with a global, high-performance team spanning APAC, Europe and US. - Take ownership of core infrastructure where uptime and performance directly impact business success. - Solve complex technical problems at the intersection of finance, cloud computing, and blockchain. - Operate in a flat, fast-moving environment that values autonomy, impact, and clarity. - Competitive compensation, flexible working environment, and the opportunity to make a real difference.

Auros is a leading cryptocurrency market-making and high-frequency trading firm that provides liquidity services across major exchanges and token projects. They offer end-to-end liquidity solutions including venture funding, engineering support, token launch strategies, and institutional market expansion. The firm has a global presence with teams across 15 geographies and offices in Hong Kong and New York.