Valkyrie Trading
Trade Support Engineer
$88K–$178K
Chicago, IL · On-site · Full-time · Posted Jun 18, 2026
- Experience
- 2+ years required; 3+ years of directly applicable experience allows consideration at the Senior level.
- Visa sponsorship
- Must have valid, ongoing, unrestricted authorization to work in the United States without the need for employer-sponsored or self-initiated immigration filings.
About the job
Supports Valkyrie Trading’s production trading environment by monitoring systems, resolving incidents, and helping maintain trade operations throughout the trading day.
What you'll do
- Monitor the production trading environment, respond to alerts, and triage, resolve, or escalate incidents.
- Deploy and configure trading applications; investigate trade and position breaks and support trade capture, reconciliation, risk, and compliance reporting.
- Write scripts to automate workflows and collaborate with traders, developers, researchers, clearing firms, exchanges, and vendors.
What they ask for
- 2+ years of full-time professional experience in Trade Support, Trade Operations, Application Support, or a similar production-support role.
- Strong proficiency with Windows and Linux; scripting skills in one or more languages and working knowledge of SQL.
- Familiarity with JSON, XML, and Parquet, and current code generation AI tools.
- Able to work on-site in Chicago, cover early hours and on-call rotations, and maintain unrestricted U.S. work authorization without immigration filings.
Nice to have
- Experience with exchange-traded derivatives, the trade lifecycle, and interfacing with exchanges and clearing firms.
- Familiarity with order-entry and market-data protocols, observability tools, and incident-management practices.
Pay
$87,500-145,000 (base salary); $145,000-177,500 (base salary, Senior-level candidates)
Tools
Windows, Linux, Python, PowerShell, Bash, SQL, JSON, XML
AI focus
Familiarity with current code generation AI tools is required.
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