Site Reliability Engineer
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
Own and improve the production environment for trading systems and exchange connectivity, focusing on performance, reliability, operability, monitoring, troubleshooting, tooling, operational risk, and technical operations mentorship.
Requirements
- Degree in Computer Science, a related field, or equivalent professional experience
- At least 5+ years of relevant IT operations experience
- At least 3+ years of experience with Python and shell scripting
- Familiarity with C++
- Linux operating system knowledge
- Knowledge of network and system configuration
- Knowledge of kernel internals, scheduling, and performance tuning
- Networking knowledge including routing, multicast, LLDP, VLAN tagging, and Ethernet
- Ability to handle shared operational and periodic on-call duties
- Reliable and predictable availability
Responsibilities
- Own the production environment
- Monitor and troubleshoot large-scale trading systems and exchange connectivity
- Build and maintain the DevOps toolkit
- Improve scalability and system performance using firm-wide metrics
- Analyze and troubleshoot complex system problems
- Coordinate changes and manage incidents
- Communicate technology changes with traders
- Reconcile trades and position breaks
- Assess operational risk of production changes
- Define and document processes and procedures
- Provide mentorship and cross-training