Trading Systems and Cloud Platform Engineer

Location: Greater Toronto Area (On-Site)

Employment: Full-Time

Compensation: C$130,000–C$175,000 base salary, plus performance bonus and equity potential.

AIRO is building a next-generation investment management firm grounded in rigorous research, technology and disciplined portfolio construction.

Our quantitative research platform is already well advanced. We are now building the production infrastructure that will operate these systems safely, securely and reliably with real capital.

The Opportunity

This is a rare opportunity to become one of AIRO's first technical hires and help build the operating platform of an investment firm from the ground up.

Our research and quantitative platform is led by highly capable research engineers focused on investment models, research systems and backtesting.

We are looking for someone with a complementary skill set whose passion is building world-class production systems.

Your responsibility will be ensuring that AIRO's live trading platform operates flawlessly every trading day.

Why This Role Is Different

This is not a generic DevOps position.

It is not a quantitative research role.

It is not a maintenance position.

You will help architect and own the production systems that connect research to live capital.

You will work directly with the Founder/CIO

What You'll Own

Production cloud architecture (Google Cloud Platform)

Live trading infrastructure

Brokerage and execution integrations

Market-data pipelines

Order lifecycle management

Position and trade reconciliation

Production deployment pipelines

Monitoring, alerting and operational dashboards

Security, IAM and secrets management

Disaster recovery and business continuity

Production documentation and runbooks

What Success Looks Like

Within your first year, you will help AIRO:

Build an institutional-grade production platform

Create robust monitoring and operational controls

Implement automated reconciliation and audit trails

Design secure production environments

Build infrastructure capable of scaling with the firm for years to come

What We're Looking For

We're much more interested in capability than years of experience.

You may have 4 years of experience.

You may have 12.

What matters is that you've built and owned real production systems.

Ideal background includes:

Strong Python development

Strong SQL and API design

Google Cloud Platform (or deep AWS/Azure experience with willingness to specialize in GCP)

Containers and CI/CD

Infrastructure as Code

Monitoring and observability

Security best practices

Strong debugging and systems thinking

Excellent documentation habits

Experience with any of the following is a major plus:

Trading systems

Electronic markets

Brokerage APIs

FIX

Market data

Payments

Banking infrastructure

High-reliability distributed systems

Interactive Brokers

On-Site by Design

This role is based in the Greater Toronto Area and is primarily on-site.

We're intentionally building AIRO's production operations locally.

Our live investment systems require close collaboration during development, testing and daily operations. Working together in person improves reliability, accelerates problem solving and supports the security and operational discipline required to manage institutional capital.

Research engineering can be distributed. Production operations will be centered at AIRO Labs.

Our Culture

We're looking for builders.

People who enjoy solving difficult technical problems.

People who want ownership rather than bureaucracy.

People who care about getting systems right.

People who understand that reliability, security and operational excellence matter just as much as elegant code.

Why Join AIRO?

This is an opportunity to help build something exceptional from the beginning.

You'll work directly with leadership, influence core architectural decisions, and help create the technology platform behind what we believe can become a world-class investment firm.

To Apply

Send your résumé

A brief description of the most important production system you've personally owned

Any experience with trading, brokerage, payments or other high-reliability financial systems

Why you're interested in helping build AIRO