Senior Infrastructure Engineer

Company Description

EDX Markets is a digital asset technology firm that combines an institution-only trading venue with a central clearinghouse to support secure and efficient crypto trading. Its flagship marketplace is built to mirror leading global exchanges, offering deep liquidity, firm prices, and low trading costs for institutional participants.

EDX operates on a non-custodial, non-conflicted model, structuring its business to minimize risk while providing operational and capital efficiencies. Backed by prominent trading and venture capital firms, EDX is rapidly developing new features and expanding geographically to deliver trusted, liquid, and efficient digital asset trading experiences for institutions.

Role Description

The Senior Infrastructure Engineer is a full-time hybrid role based in Chicago, IL, with flexibility for partial work from home. This role is responsible for designing, implementing, and maintaining highly available infrastructure that supports EDX’s institutional trading platform.

Day-to-day tasks include managing systems and networks, monitoring performance, troubleshooting complex issues, and ensuring secure, scalable, and resilient environments across on-premises and cloud resources. The engineer will collaborate with software development, security, and operations teams to automate infrastructure deployments, optimize reliability, and uphold strict security and compliance standards.

The role also involves contributing to infrastructure strategy, documentation, and best practices to support ongoing platform growth.

Qualifications

• Strong infrastructure and system administration skills, including experience managing Linux-based systems, virtualization, and cloud platforms.
• Proficiency in networking concepts and technologies, such as TCP/IP, routing, switching, load balancing, and VPNs.
• Experience deploying, managing, and troubleshooting containerized applications and Kubernetes environments.
• Advanced troubleshooting skills for diagnosing and resolving complex infrastructure, network, and performance issues.
• Experience with automation and Infrastructure as Code (e.g., Terraform, Ansible, or similar tools).
• Familiarity with monitoring, logging, and alerting tools to ensure high availability and observability of production systems.
• Background working in high-performance, low-latency, or trading/financial services environments is beneficial.
• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Information Technology, or equivalent practical experience.
• Ability to work effectively in a collaborative hybrid environment and communicate clearly with technical and non-technical stakeholders.