Senior Trading Risk Control Specialist

About the role

Bybit, established in 2018, operates as a top-tier cryptocurrency exchange, serving a vast user base globally. The company is focused on delivering a seamless financial ecosystem that includes trading, payments, and Web3 services. They emphasize a user-first approach, aiming to innovate and improve the digital finance landscape.

In this role, you will be responsible for developing and refining risk management strategies to detect and prevent manipulative trading behaviors across various products. Success will involve collaborating with cross-functional teams and utilizing your analytical skills to create effective monitoring systems that enhance market integrity.

Skills that matter here

• risk management: This role requires developing strategies to identify and mitigate trading risks.
• market surveillance: You will investigate suspicious trading activities to maintain market integrity.
• SQL: Advanced SQL skills are essential for analyzing trading data and creating detection logic.
• Python: Experience with Python is desirable for developing monitoring workflows.

Who this role suits

• A professional with a strong background in trading or risk management, particularly in derivatives.
• Someone who is analytical and can independently validate detection methods using data.
• A candidate who anticipates potential market manipulation tactics and understands complex trading mechanisms.
• An individual who values collaboration and is eager to contribute to a diverse team environment.

From the employer

What You’ll Do

• Develop and continuously improve risk and surveillance strategies for identifying abusive or manipulative activity across spot, perpetual futures, options, and related trading products.
• Investigate potentially coordinated or suspicious trading activity using order-flow analysis, self-trading and crossing behaviours, order-book signals, and account-linkage indicators.
• Define behavioural patterns for new or evolving manipulation methods, particularly in thinly traded assets, leveraged instruments, and liquidation-driven market events.
• Assess the impact of identified risks, including possible market disruption, financial exposure, and concentration of risk, to inform prioritisation and leadership reporting.
• Partner with Product, Compliance, and other relevant teams to design, test, and implement appropriate monitoring rules and risk controls.
• Collaborate with data scientists and analysts to translate trading-risk concepts into effective detection logic, models, and monitoring workflows.

What You Bring

• Practical experience trading or managing risk in derivatives, with strong knowledge of futures, perpetual swaps, and options.
• Solid understanding of leverage, margin requirements, liquidation processes, insurance-fund structures, and auto-deleveraging mechanisms.
• Demonstrated experience in trading-risk management, market surveillance, or preventing market-abuse activity such as spoofing, layering, wash trading, front-running, or misuse of privileged information.
• Strong analytical ability; advanced SQL skills are essential, and Python experience is highly desirable.
• Ability to independently create and validate detection approaches using order-level and trade-level data.
• A mindset that anticipates how bad actors may build positions, obscure their behaviour, and exploit market or product mechanics.
• Preferred Qualifications
• Background in market surveillance, trading risk, or market-conduct roles at a digital-asset exchange, brokerage, or trading venue.
• Active derivatives-trading experience or a demonstrable quantitative trading record.
• Familiarity with conventional financial-market abuse regulations, surveillance frameworks, or vendor platforms.
• Knowledge of blockchain analytics and on-chain transaction tracing.
• Experience using graph analysis or entity-resolution methods to uncover coordinated account networks and fund flows.
• Familiarity with market-quality and anomaly indicators, such as VPIN and HHI.

Why Join Us

At Bybit, we are committed to fostering a supportive and enriching work environment. Our benefits include:

• Study Growth Fund: We support your professional development and continuous learning.
• Internal Events: Participate in regular team-building activities, workshops, and events designed to promote collaboration and innovation.
• Global Collaboration: Be part of a diverse, international team, working alongside colleagues from around the world.
• Career Advancement: Access opportunities for growth and advancement within a rapidly expanding global company.
• Internal Mobility: Grow with us- Your long-term development is important to us. We offer internal job opportunities to help build your career path.