Trading Systems Engineer

Hudson River Trading • Boulder, CO

8h

About The Position

Hudson River Trading (HRT) is seeking a Trading Systems Engineer to join their growing Trading Systems Infrastructure team. This team is responsible for designing, building, and maintaining the infrastructure that powers HRT's global trading operations, ensuring optimal performance and uptime for ultra low-latency operating systems, automation software, and development tools that enable trading strategies worldwide 24/7. As a Trading Systems Engineer, the role involves working on projects focused on the real-time production trading environment, tackling problems that demand high availability, high throughput, and ultra low-latency solutions. The ideal candidate should have a passion for coding and automation, be eager to acquire new skills to contribute to an elegant stack, and possess the ability to manage challenging technical issues in a dynamic and fast-paced setting.

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
• Proficiency with configuration management tools, particularly SaltStack
• 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

• Knowledge of Debian/Ubuntu is desirable
• Strong knowledge of Puppet, Ansible, Chef, or CFEngine is also desirable
• 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

Benefits

• discretionary performance-based bonuses
• competitive benefits package which includes medical, dental, vision, basic life insurance, and enrollment in our company’s retirement savings plans
• sick leave
• parental leave
• other paid time off (including 20 vacation days and 10 paid holidays in the US)

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior
• Education Level: No Education Listed