Senior Trading Risk Control Specialist

About the role

Bybit, a cryptocurrency exchange and digital financial platform founded in 2018, is hiring a Senior Trading Risk Control Specialist in Abu Dhabi. The role focuses on spotting abusive or manipulative activity across spot, perpetual futures, options and related products, and on designing and testing risk controls together with Product, Compliance and data teams.

Key responsibilities

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

Required profile

• 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 such as spoofing, layering, wash trading, front-running or misuse of privileged information.
• Ability to independently create and validate detection approaches using order-level and trade-level data.
• A mindset anticipating how bad actors build positions, obscure their behaviour and exploit market or product mechanics.
• Preferred: background in market surveillance or trading risk at a digital-asset exchange, brokerage or trading venue; active derivatives-trading experience; familiarity with conventional market-abuse regulations, surveillance frameworks or vendor platforms; knowledge of blockchain analytics and on-chain tracing; experience with graph analysis or entity resolution; familiarity with indicators such as VPIN and HHI.

Required skills

• Advanced SQL (essential)
• Python (highly desirable)

What we offer

• Study Growth Fund supporting professional development and learning.
• Internal events, workshops and team-building activities.
• Global collaboration with an international team.
• Career advancement and internal mobility opportunities.