Production Engineer, Electronic Trading Systems

Two Sigma Minato-ku, Tokyo September 17 2026
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    Partially remote
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    Apply from abroad
    Relocate to Japan
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    No Japanese required
    Business English
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    Intermediate level
    1+ years experience required
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About Two Sigma

Two Sigma Minato-ku, Tokyo

Two Sigma is a financial sciences company, combining data analysis, invention, and rigorous inquiry to help solve the toughest challenges in investment management, insurance technology, securities, private equity, and venture capital.

About the position

We are looking for a Production Engineer with a strong technical development background to join our dynamic, fast-paced team. This role will involve building and supporting our trading environments in the US, Asia and Europe, as well as contributing to our advancement into digital assets trading.

Our Production Engineering team is primarily focused on developing tools, automated testing and integration software, maintaining infrastructure, real-time monitoring, performance measurement, and managing the release and deployment lifecycle. This is an exciting and impactful opportunity where you will play a crucial role in ensuring the efficiency and reliability of our electronic trading systems, working closely with our quantitative traders and researchers.

Responsibilities

  • Develop and maintain scalable, ultra-low latency systems focused on automation, including deploying new features and fixes for a global multi-asset electronic trading business.
  • Enhance real-time monitoring and refine incident and crisis management SLOs, diagnosing and resolving issues with intraday transactions.
  • Design and implement architecture and support for the proprietary trading environment, including system design consulting, platform management, capacity planning, tools development, network, colocation site management, and vendor/exchange connectivity across three continents.
  • Collaborate with software and infrastructure teams to define and improve technical and operational best practices.

Requirements

  • Minimum 1 year of experience required; 1-5 years of experience preferred in Production or Reliability Engineering
  • A Bachelors with Honours in a relevant discipline is required
  • Ability to program (structured and OO) with one or more high level language (such as Python, Java, C++)
  • Proven track record for automating processes combined with an algorithmic approach to solving problems
  • Ability to profile and debug applications in real time

Nice to haves

While not specifically required, tell us if you have any of the following.

  • Trading domain and order lifecycle management knowledge is a plus

Hiring Process

  1. 1

    Code Challenge

    An algorithms/data structures-focused evaluation where we ask you to develop an algorithm meeting certain test cases for a few problems.

  2. 2

    Technical Evaluation

    3 individual interviews covering coding, testing, and systems abilities.

  3. 3

    Soft Skill Evaluation

    3 individual interviews with the management function and stakeholders.

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