Campus Systems Engineer (Intern)

P2P; Singapore; On-site; SGD 20,000 - 27,000; Full time

Job summary

Jump Trading Group seeks a Systems Engineer Intern in Singapore for a 10-week program supporting real-time trading infrastructure. You will work with frontline technology teams, gaining hands-on exposure to managing, monitoring, and improving the trading environment.

You will collaborate with experienced systems and network engineers, learning DevOps practices and operational responsibilities with potential for full-time opportunities after graduation.

Qualifications

• Majoring in Computer Science, Engineering, Information Systems, or a related field.
• Experience with Linux/UNIX and shell commands.
• Practical knowledge of Python.
• Understanding of networking concepts such as routing and Ethernet.
• Detail-oriented with strong operational discipline.
• Ability to work under pressure in a collaborative environment.
• Willingness to participate in a 10-week intensive program in Singapore.

Responsibilities

• Build automation to manage and improve the production trading environment.
• Proactively monitor the overall health and performance of the trading platform.
• Analyze and troubleshoot complex system, software, and networking infrastructure issues.
• Design, implement and optimize network infrastructure for low latency trading applications across data centers.
• Coordinate changes and manage incidents with risk management and trading teams.
• Define and document processes and procedures for production operations.
• Other duties as assigned or needed.

Skills

Linux/UNIX

Python

Networking concepts

Shell scripting

Distributed systems

Problem solving under pressure

Team collaboration

Reliability

Education

CS/Engineering/Information Systems major

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 incentivizing 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.

Trading Infrastructure is a global organization of Engineers who architect, build and maintain our world-class infrastructure. From colo design/implementation, to optimizing our exchange connectivity, to building world class low latent Wide Area Networks, we leverage research and automation to consistently adapt and innovate our infrastructure to scale and drive our trading and evolving business.

Candidates should be interested in working in Singapore for their full-time job after graduation.

About the Role:

Our Systems Engineer internship is an intensive 10-week experience with our frontline technology teams that are responsible for managing, monitoring, and improving the real-time trading environment at Jump Trading.

You will be working directly with our experienced systems and network engineers, gaining broad technical and operational knowledge across all aspects of the trading platform and technology stack. Our internship program is the primary way we identify top young system engineers for our teams, paving the path toward earning full-time opportunities at Jump.

We are looking for bright and highly motivated individuals that want to grow their knowledge of systems and networking, understanding of modern trading at scale, and practical DevOps-based software engineering skills.

What you'll do:

The Systems Engineer Intern will work with traders, operations, exchanges, and developers to optimize the trading environment and investigate and solve system issues.

• Build automation to manage and improve the production trading environment
• Proactively monitor the overall health and performance of the trading platform
• Work closely with our world-class technology organization to:
  • Analyze and troubleshoot complex system, software, and networking infrastructure issues
  • Design, implement and optimize network infrastructure for proprietary low latency trading applications at various data centers throughout the world
• Work closely with risk management and trading teams to coordinate changes and manage incidents
• Manage and assess operational risk of change control into the production environment
• Define and document process and procedure
• Other duties as assigned or needed

Skills you'll need:

• Major in Computer Science/Engineering, Information Systems, or related technical field
• Experience working with Linux/UNIX OS including advanced commands and shell scripts
• Practical working knowledge of Python
• Understanding of networking concepts such as routing, multicast, ethernet
• A rigorous, detail-oriented approach to operations
• Ability to operate and communicate clearly under pressure
• Desire to work in a collaborative, team environment with a positive can-do attitude
• Reliable and predictable availability