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Site Reliability Engineer

Flowdesk

Singapore

Posted 18 days ago

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About Flowdesk

At Flowdesk, we are building the infrastructure powering the next era of global finance. As a full-service digital asset trading and technology firm, we provide liquidity solutions, OTC trading, and market infrastructure that connect digital assets to global markets with institutional-grade precision, transparency, and scale. Flowdesk combines expertise from traditional finance, algorithmic trading, and blockchain technology to deliver always-on trading capabilities across the digital asset ecosystem.

Founded in 2020, we are a global team supporting institutions, exchanges, and token issuers to enable a tokenized financial markets ecosystem.

Why join Flowdesk? You'll be joining a company operating at the intersection of finance, technology, and crypto; solving complex market problems, building critical infrastructure, and helping shape how digital assets connect to global liquidity. We move fast, think long term, and work with a strong ownership mindset across engineering, trading, product, operations, and business teams.

Role Description

As a Core SRE Engineer at Flowdesk, you will be at the heart of our infrastructure operations, responsible for the reliability, performance, and scalability of our global high-frequency trading platform.

Reporting to Flowdesk's head of Infrastructure and working in close collaboration with the Engineering, Trading, and Data teams, you will play a crucial role in maintaining, enhancing, and scaling the critical systems that power our operations.

Key Responsibilities

Infrastructure Management & Reliability

Maintain and optimize critical infrastructures including, cloud infrastructures, data pipelines, and core trading systems

Monitor and optimize network infrastructure to ensure peak performance and minimal downtime

Ensure reliability, security, scalability, and performance of the company's essential systems

Participate in day-to-day operational activities and incident management

Kubernetes & Orchestration

Develop and maintain in-house Kubernetes operators to manage our evolving stack

Manage containerized workloads and ensure smooth deployments

Automation & DevOps

Improve and add new features to our CI/CD systems (FluxCD, Github Actions, Python scripting)

Implement robust monitoring solutions using Prometheus, Grafana, and similar technologies

Advance DevOps practices, application-level reliability, and observability

Collaboration & Innovation

Engage with Flowdesk's teams to understand their needs and deliver technical solutions

Provide technical support that enhances operational capabilities across teams

Propose improvements and bring innovative ideas to enhance performance and reliability

Explain technical concepts effectively to non-technical stakeholders

Qualifications & Requirements

Essential Experience

Bare Metal Infrastructure

Deep proficiency with bare metal deployments, cloud architectures, network configurations, and Terraform provisioners

Kubernetes Expertise

Deep experience with Kubernetes architecture globally

Systems & Network Management

Knowledge of network infrastructure administration, especially for ultra-low latency setups and interconnects.

Cloud Infrastructure

Experience with cloud services (AWS, GCP) and infrastructure-as-code tools (Terraform, Ansible)

Monitoring & Observability

Hands-on experience with monitoring solutions (Prometheus, Grafana) and implementing proactive detection systems

Highly Valued

Experience with CI/CD pipelines, FluxCD, and Github Actions

Comfortable coding in languages like Golang, Rust, or Python for infrastructure automation and tooling

DevOps methodologies and practices

Experience working in a trading or high-frequency trading environment

Experience with ultra-low latency systems and network optimization

Knowledge of FinOps and cost optimization strategies

Performance tuning in high-throughput environments

Personal Attributes

Excellent communication skills with ability to explain complex technical concepts to non-technical audiences

Strong organizational and time management skills with ability to prioritize urgent tasks and meet deadlines

Methodical and disciplined approach to problem-solving

Strong interest in technology and eagerness to learn new technologies and concepts

Ability to work effectively in an international, fast-paced environment

Company Culture & Values

Take Action & Own the Mission

Be of Service & Contribute

Innovate, Create Value, & Be Courageous

Act with Integrity & Respect

Perks & Compensation

International environment (English is the main language)

100% health coverage

Team events and offsites

Annual remote work allowance of 10 business days following successful probation completion

Medical insurance support up to 400 SGD monthly per family member

25 days of paid time off annually

Recruitment Process

Our process is consistent across all engineering roles and is designed to assess genuine technical depth. Candidates should expect the following stages

Stage 1: Talent Acquisition - Background and motivations

Stage 2: Head of infrastructure - Technical Discussion

Stage 3: Infrastructure Team - Technical and Cultural

Stage 4: Head of Talent Strategy

About Flowdesk

Flowdesk, founded in 2020 by Guilhem Chaumont, Paul Michelet, François Cluzeau and Balthazar Giraux in Paris, is a leading digital asset market maker and algorithmic trading technology provider. Regulated as a Digital Asset Service Provider (DASP) in France by the AMF with offices in Paris, Singapore, and New York, Flowdesk pioneered the Market Making as a Service (MMaaS) model that provides token issuers, centralized exchanges, and decentralized protocols with transparent liquidity management, programmatic order execution, and OTC trading desks. Flowdesk combines high-throughput low-latency execution engines with strict risk management and regulatory compliance.

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