Position: Systems Engineer – Low Latency Trading
Location: New York
Model: Hybrid
Salary: Annual base salary of up to $500000. Pay (base and bonus) may vary depending on job-related skills and experience. A sign-on and discretionary performance bonus may be provided as part of the total compensation package, in addition to company-paid medical and/or other benefits.
Summary:
Our client brings a scientific approach to trading financial products. They have built one of the world's most sophisticated computing environments for research and development. The researchers are at the forefront of innovation in the world of algorithmic trading. They welcome a variety of expertise: mathematics and computer science, physics and engineering, media and tech. They’re a community of self-starters who are motivated by the excitement of being at the cutting edge of automation in every part of our organization—from trading, to business operations, to recruiting and beyond. They value openness and transparency, and celebrate great ideas from veterans and new hires alike.
Our client is looking for a Trading Systems Engineer to join our growing Trading Systems Infrastructure team. This team builds and maintains trading infrastructure hyper-optimized for low-latency, operating systems, automation software, and development tools that allow our trading strategies to run worldwide 24/7.
As Systems Engineer, you’ll work on projects focusing on our real-time production trading environment and tackle problems that require high availability, high throughput, and low-latency solutions. You should possess a passion for coding and automation, along with the ability to handle challenging technical issues within a dynamic and fast-paced setting.
Responsibilities:
- Plan and execute technical projects to make our Linux trading systems (hardware, network, OS, etc.) faster, adaptable, and more maintainable
- Manage and optimize worldwide trading infrastructure
- Automate and troubleshoot a broad range of technical infrastructure
Troubleshoot hardware and software issues
- Operate and upgrade system installations
- Deploy, configure, and test internal and external applications
- Performance testing and tuning
- Script solutions to automate repetitive tasks
- Work with vendors to resolve issues
Requirements:
- 7+ years of relevant experience supporting a live trading environment
- Expertise in installation, configuration, and troubleshooting of Linux systems, from hardware and kernel to applications
- Experience with configuration management tools, particularly SaltStack but Puppet, Ansible, Chef, or CFEngine are also a plus
- Python programming experience focusing on automation and integration
- Advanced shell (bash) scripting experience
- Experience managing and debugging production services
- Strong communication and organization skills
- Experience and knowledge of Debian/Ubuntu is a plus
- Ability to manage projects efficiently
- Architect-level cloud experience in AWS or GCP is desirable
Interested?
Please send your resume to Andrea@wearetda.io