Weekend Systems Engineer — Linux, Python, Hpc

Jump Trading; Sydney; On-site; AUD 120,000 - 160,000; Full time

Job summary

Jump Trading Group is seeking a Systems Engineer to support global infrastructure from Sydney with a weekend warrior schedule. You will tackle high-scale Linux systems, complex networking, and automation tasks using Go or Python, Salt/Puppet/Ansible, and performance profiling.

You’ll join a globally distributed team, contribute to troubleshooting, tooling, and cross-team projects, and thrive on learning cutting-edge technologies while maintaining reliability in a demanding financial environment.

Qualifications

• Advanced Linux systems knowledge and troubleshooting.
• Solid networking fundamentals and willingness to learn more.
• Proficient in scripting with Go or Python.
• Experience with configuration management tools such as Salt, Puppet or Ansible.

Responsibilities

• Work on global projects across a wide range of infrastructure.
• Manage and resolve technical issues with a high degree of technical complexity.
• Develop tools that help diagnose, resolve, and triage difficult problems.
• Engage in widely different engineering projects to avoid siloing.
• Support a modified weekend work week as part of the weekend warrior team.

Skills

Linux expertise

Networking basics

Go or Python scripting

Root-cause analysis

Troubleshooting stacks

System design

Config management

Problem solving

Reliability / availability

Tools

Salt

Puppet

Ansible

Job description

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 incenting 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. Our Production Engineering team is based in Chicago, New York, London, Singapore and Sydney with some members in smaller offices or fully remote. We operate as one global team to support Jump's infrastructure including multiple world-leading High-Performance Computing (HPC) environments and a diverse global trading infrastructure that operates across many global financial markets. The team is responsible for everything from low level infrastructure to applications, making heavy use of both internally developed and open-source software. As a Systems Engineer, you'll have the opportunity to showcase your skills as a deeply technical resource with exceptional troubleshooting skills when required. We are looking for someone who loves learning new cutting-edge technologies and getting their hands dirty to solve challenging technical problems. As a Systems Engineering Weekend Warrior, you will be working a modified 4- or 5-day work week that includes Saturday and Sunday to help support our infrastructure on a full-time basis. Worth noting, other teams have a similar setup, so you will join a virtual 'weekend warrior' team online all weekend in your time zone. Also, Jump's systems are heavily automated so most of your time will be focused on project work - but you will be available for immediate troubleshooting and support as required.

What You'll Do:

• Work on global projects across a wide range of infrastructure
• Manage and resolve technical issues with a high degree of technical complexity
• Develop tools that will help in diagnosing, resolving, and triaging difficult problems
• Other duties as assigned or required (we pride ourselves on avoiding "siloing", so this will include widely different engineering projects)
• Work a modified work week, which includes the weekends

Skills You'll Need:

• An insatiable desire to learn
• Expert Linux knowledge
• Some Networking knowledge and a willingness to learn more
• Scripting competence with either Go or Python (and a willing to learn both)
• Extensive experience profiling and debugging application stacks
• Extensive experience designing, building, and maintaining complicated systems
• Experience with system configuration management tools (Salt, Puppet, Ansible, etc.)
• A compulsion to perform root-cause analysis
• Reliable and predictable availability