Senior/Staff DevOps Engineer

Senior/Staff DevOps Engineer (High-Performance solutions)

Global, EU

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Our mission is to change this world by making blockchain accessible to everyone in everyday life. WhiteBIT is a global team of over 1,200 professionals united by one mission — to shape the new world order in the Web3 era. Each of our employees is fully engaged in this transformative journey.

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Requirements

We're looking for a Senio/Staff-level engineer with an open mind and a builder's instinct - someone who goes beyond executing tasks and is ready to own the High-Performance practice end-to-end: establish engineering processes, drive R&D, evaluate and champion new technologies, and lead their adoption in production.

The ideal candidate can bridge the gap between business requirements for low latency and high throughput and the realities of existing infrastructure - translating "we need to be faster" into an actionable technical roadmap. You bring a fresh perspective, know how to organize the work, and are equally comfortable optimizing a hardware parameter and presenting a strategy to stakeholders.

We expect 5+ years of hands-on experience as a DevOps/SRE/Systems Engineer in performance-critical environments - and the maturity to grow yourself and grow a team around you.

• Linux: Advanced administration and OS-level tuning — real-time OS configurations, cgroups, CPU isolation, memory management, and low-level network stack configuration.
• Hardware Internals: Deep understanding of CPU power and performance states (C/P-states), Hyper-Threading / SMT trade-offs, TX/RX ring configuration, and the full data path from NIC through PCIe to memory and CPU. Ability to reason about and tune each stage of that path under production load.
• Networking & TCP Internals: Deep knowledge of TCP/IP — congestion control, ACK behavior, buffer tuning, and protocol-level latency sources. Strong Linux networking fundamentals: low-latency NIC configuration, bypass networking technologies (DPDK, RDMA), and market connectivity (multicast feeds, co-location networks, VPNs).
• Performance Engineering: Practical experience profiling latency-sensitive systems; familiarity with tools such as perf, flamegraph, strace, tcpdump, eBPF, and hardware performance counters.
• Containerization: Deep knowledge of Docker and Kubernetes, including low-overhead deployment patterns and performance trade-offs of containerized workloads.
• IaC: Proven track record with Ansible, Terraform, and Helm in production environments.
• Monitoring: Hands-on experience with the Prometheus / Grafana stack; ability to build latency-aware dashboards and alerting (P99, jitter, throughput KPIs).
• Scripting: Solid scripting in Bash and Python; Golang is a strong plus given its role in systems tooling.
• CI/CD & Secret Management: Strong grasp of CI/CD pipelines with experience integrating performance validation stages; familiarity with Vault for secrets management.
• Security: Understanding of DevSecOps principles and Kubernetes security policies.

Key Performance Metrics You'll Work With

Latency Distribution - P99 / P99.9 across the tick-to-trade path, using hardware-level timestamps (NIC/PTP).

Jitter - variance between min/max latency, measured over large sample sets in live market conditions.

Throughput - messages per second (orders + cancels) under exchange burst scenarios.

System Reliability - сontinuous monitoring of uptime

Extra Credit / Big Pluses

• Hands-on experience with kernel-level optimization: syscall reduction, network stack bypass (DPDK, RDMA, Solarflare OpenOnload).
• Background in HFT, algorithmic trading, or other ultra-low-latency production environments.
• Experience with hardware timestamping, PTP/IEEE 1588, and precision time synchronization.
• Familiarity with colocation operations and exchange connectivity (cross-connects, proximity hosting).
• Proven SRE track record with formal SLO/error budget frameworks in latency-sensitive contexts.
• DevSecOps: vulnerability scanning, Zero Trust, RBAC, and secure delivery pipelines.
• Understanding of business processes in FinTech, crypto, or electronic trading.

Responsibilities

• Low-Latency Infrastructure Owner