Senior Platform Engineer

🚨 Senior Platform Engineer – London | Elite Trading Environment | £400k–£500k+ TC I’m working on a high-impact Senior Platform Engineering role within a top-tier global trading firm. This is a chance to operate at the core of a mission-critical production environment, where infrastructure performance directly impacts trading outcomes. This is a deep technical role focused on building and scaling the platforms that power a globally distributed, high-performance trading ecosystem. 🧠 What you’ll be doing • Designing and evolving core platform infrastructure supporting production trading systems • Building internal tooling across observability, build systems, and infrastructure automation • Managing and optimising Linux-based environments across global colocations • Operating and scaling on-prem Kubernetes clusters and containerised workloads • Partnering closely with engineering teams to debug complex, real-time production issues • Driving improvements in system reliability, performance, and scalability across distributed systems ⚙️ Tech environment • Linux (deep systems-level exposure) • Kubernetes / containerisation (on-prem) • Observability stacks • Languages: Python, Go (or similar) • Distributed systems at scale 🎯 What they’re looking for • Strong background in platform engineering, SRE, or production engineering • Deep understanding of Linux systems, networking, and debugging at scale • Experience building and operating complex distributed systems • Comfortable owning problems end-to-end — from diagnosis through to resolution • A mindset geared towards root cause analysis and continuous improvement 💰 Compensation: • Base: £150k – £200k+ • Year 1 Total Comp: £300k – £500k+ 🌍 Why this role stands out • You’ll be working on infrastructure that is directly tied to trading performance • Highly technical, engineering-led environment — minimal bureaucracy • Significant ownership and autonomy from day one • Comp structure that genuinely rewards impact and performance This is well suited to engineers coming from high-scale tech, cloud infrastructure, or low-latency environments who want to step into a top-tier trading setup. 💬 If you’d be open to hearing more, feel free to message me directly or comment below. #London #Hiring #PlatformEngineering #SRE #DevOps #Linux #Kubernetes #DistributedSystems #TradingTech