Lead Site Reliability Engineer | Production Infrastructure
Jump Trading is a global trading firm where traders, engineers, and researchers develop trading strategies, models, infrastructure, and systems across asset classes and time horizons.
About Jump Trading
Jump Trading is a global trading firm focused on research-driven trading and the engineering of scalable models, tools, infrastructure, and execution systems. Its operations combine trading, technology, AI/ML, and quantitative research, and it also runs research and talent programs including conference travel grants and a fellowship program.
Skills
Candidate Availability
Required and preferred rules are kept separate and reflect the wording in the original posting.
About the Role
Lead and mentor engineers while contributing hands-on to production reliability initiatives, including monitoring, alerting, packet analysis, automation, incident management, change management, performance optimization, and infrastructure strategy.
Requirements
- Leadership experience managing people across distributed teams
- Experience solving reliability challenges in large-scale production environments
- Strategic thinking and problem-solving maturity
- Strong programming skills in Python, Go, or an equivalent language
Responsibilities
- Manage and mentor engineers across teams
- Architect and implement monitoring and alerting systems
- Build real-time packet and flow analysis tooling
- Develop automation frameworks for production infrastructure
- Oversee incident management and change management
- Improve post-incident review processes
- Eliminate operational toil through automation and tooling
- Investigate low-level performance issues
- Optimize software stacks for low latency and high throughput
- Collaborate with engineering, networking, and trading teams
- Shape production tooling, infrastructure scaling, and vendor partnership strategy
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