About the job
ElectronX™ is a U. S.-regulated marketplace focused on direct access to electricity derivatives. Headquartered in New York City, with an office in Chicago, the company builds financial infrastructure and risk management tools for the U. S. energy sector. ElectronX is backed by venture capital partners including Innovation Endeavors, Systemiq Capital, Equinor Ventures, Shell Ventures LLC, DCVC, Amplo, BoxGroup, and Lightning Capital.
ElectronX operates in the competitive world of quantitative capital markets. The team values resourcefulness, curiosity, and adaptability. Collaboration and entrepreneurial thinking are central to the company’s culture, and team members are expected to demonstrate intellectual resilience and a drive for technical excellence.
Role overview
The Senior Systems & Infrastructure Engineer will guide and improve the core platforms that power the ElectronX exchange. This position covers cloud infrastructure, containerized environments, observability, security operations, and networking. The engineer will join a lean, high-trust team with significant autonomy and direct impact on production systems.
ElectronX seeks candidates who are committed to raising organizational standards. The right person approaches architectural challenges and support requests alike with a positive, solution-focused mindset. Clear communication, reliability, and sharing technical best practices are essential.
What you will do
- Cloud Infrastructure: Design, deploy, and maintain multi-tiered cloud environments using infrastructure-as-code tools such as Terraform and Ansible.
- Manage container orchestration platforms, overseeing lifecycle management, autoscaling, ingress, persistent storage, and workload isolation.
- Establish and enforce cloud organization policies, Identity and Access Management (IAM), and key network security measures.
- Apply FinOps principles to optimize cloud spending and resource allocation.

