Trading Systems Engineer

Hudson River Trading•London, CO

13h•Onsite

About The Position

Hudson River Trading (HRT) is seeking a Trading Systems Engineer to join our growing Trading Systems Infrastructure team. This team designs, builds, and maintains the infrastructure that powers our global trading, and is responsible for ensuring optimal performance and uptime of the ultra low-latency operating systems, automation software, and development tools that allow our trading strategies to run worldwide 24/7. As a Trading 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 ultra low-latency solutions. The ideal candidate possesses a passion for coding and automation, is eager to learn new skills to help build an elegant stack, and has the ability to handle challenging technical issues within a dynamic and fast-paced environment.

Requirements

7+ years of relevant experience supporting a live production environment (especially trading)
Expert in installing, configuring, and troubleshooting Linux systems, from hardware and networking to kernel to applications
Knowledge of Debian/Ubuntu is desirable
Proficiency with configuration management tools, particularly SaltStack – strong knowledge of Puppet, Ansible, Chef, or CFEngine is also desirable
Advanced programming experience focusing on automation and integration; Python is strongly preferred
Advanced shell (bash) scripting experience
Significant experience managing and debugging production trading services
Strong cross-functional communication and organization skills
Proven ability to manage assigned projects efficiently, ideally using JIRA

Nice To Haves

Architect-level cloud experience in AWS or GCP is desirable, but not required

Responsibilities

Design, manage, automate, and optimize worldwide Linux-based trading infrastructure by planning and executing complex technical projects and tasks
Troubleshoot hardware and software issues across the stack
Design and implement system installations and upgrades
Deploy, configure, and test internal and external applications
Remain unfazed by production-critical issues, resolving them quickly and efficiently
Benchmark and tune the performance of the trading stack
Hold vendors accountable on performance and reliability issues, with the ability to confidently go toe-to-toe with a vendor's Tier 2 engineering team during an escalation
Join an on-call rotation schedule to cover trading hours and weekend shifts, as needed