- Jumptrading
- Chicago, IL
- 10 days ago
- $200,000–$225,000 / year
Site Reliability Engineer.
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Site Reliability Engineer: our view in 3 lines...
- The Role:This role is for a Site Reliability Engineer focused on global trading infrastructure at a financial markets technology company.
- The Person:The person will build and maintain monitoring, configuration management, automation, alerting, observability, and packet and flow analysis systems while debugging low-level performance issues in complex software stacks.
- Requirements:The ideal candidate has 5+ years experience with Python and Go, strong Linux knowledge, streaming systems architecture, message queues, Rust or C/C++, big data stores, CI/CD systems, and Kubernetes.
About the role
Site Reliability Engineer
Jump Trading Group is committed to world class research. We empower exceptional talents in Mathematics, Physics, and Computer Science to seek scientific boundaries, push through them, and apply cutting edge research to global financial markets. Our culture is unique. Constant innovation requires fearlessness, creativity, intellectual honesty, and a relentless competitive streak. We believe in winning together and unlocking unique individual talent by incentivizing collaboration and mutual respect. At Jump, research outcomes drive more than superior risk adjusted returns. We design, develop, and deploy technologies that change our world, fund start-ups across industries, and partner with leading global research organizations and universities to solve problems.
Trading Infrastructure is a global organization of Engineers who architect, build and maintain our world-class infrastructure. From colocation design/implementation, to optimizing our exchange connectivity, to building world class low latent Wide Area Networks, we leverage research and automation to consistently adapt and innovate our infrastructure to scale and drive our trading and evolving business.
We are looking for exceptional talent that can work closely and collaborate effectively across multiple teams spread around the globe and continue to take our infrastructure to the next level.
What You'll Do:
- Work in a hybrid Systems Engineer / Software Developer capacity on Jump’s internal systems that manage the global infrastructure and colocation footprint
- Architect, build and maintain streaming monitoring tooling, high performance / real-time packet and flow analysis systems, configuration management and automation frameworks
- Take an ops-first approach, focusing on improving quality of the platforms for the wider team and always strive to identify improvements and opportunities for further make us more efficient
- Identify opportunities to make services more efficient and resilient by designing alerting and observability around team and business requirements
- Do deep-dive debugging sessions on low-level performance issues in complex software stacks
- Other duties as assigned or needed
Skills You’ll Need:
- 5+ years experience with Python, Go
- Strong experience with Linux
- Knowledge of streaming systems architecture and design
- Message/streaming queues (Apache Kafka, RabbitMQ, etc.)
- Working knowledge of Rust, C/C++
- Experience with big data / columnar style data stores (Bigtable, Clickhouse, Cassandra) and time series databases
- Experience working with version control and CI/CD systems.
- App deployment management and lifecycle (CI/CD, Kubernetes, pods/containers)
- Proven knowledge of working on infrastructure challenges in a reliability capacity
- Previous experience demonstrating strategic thinking skills and maturity in tackling complex problems, dealing with people, technology and processes
- Reliable and predictable availability
Bonus skills:
- Experience with Rust
- Prior exposure to Arista or Cisco hardware
- Routing protocol knowledge
- Prior network design knowledge
Benefits
- Discretionary bonus eligibility
- Medical, dental, and vision insurance
- HSA, FSA, and Dependent Care options
- Employer Paid Group Term Life and AD&D Insurance
- Voluntary Life & AD&D insurance
- Paid vacation plus paid holidays
- Retirement plan with employer match
- Paid parental leave
- Wellness Programs

