Optiver

Senior Network Engineer

Amsterdam, NetherlandsEnglishSeniorOn-sitePosted 11 mrt 2026

Optiver is looking for a Senior Network Engineer with a passion for solving problems and reducing complexity. You will join a team responsible for owning the networks that our industry-leading proprietary trading systems rely on. From day one, your contributions to the design, optimization and maintenance of our global...

Role summary

Optiver is looking for a Senior Network Engineer with a passion for solving problems and reducing complexity. You will join a team responsible for owning the networks that our industry-leading proprietary trading systems rely on.

From day one, your contributions to the design, optimization and maintenance of our globally distributed networks will allow our traders and engineers to continue operating at the highest level of performance, making a direct impact to our business. Speed, reliability and scalability is at the center of everything that we do.

What you'll do Working in Optiver’s Network Engineering team will see you contributing to challenges scaling across low-latency, network automation, data center and WAN technologies through to colocation design and enterprise security to support our competitive market-making business. We're not interested in siloes, our engineers touch everything.

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