Systems Engineer

Description:

Hudson River Trading (HRT) 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
   

Qualifications
 

• 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