Hybrid SRE & Software Engineer – Real-Time Infra

Jump Trading; Chicago (IL); Hybrid; USD 150,000 - 230,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical, dental, and vision insurance

HSA, FSA, and Dependent Care options

Employer Paid Group Term Life and AD&D

Job summary

Jump Trading Group is seeking a seasoned Systems Engineer / Software Developer to join our hybrid infrastructure teams in Chicago. You will work on internal systems that manage our global colocation footprint and low-latency network stack.

You’ll design and implement streaming monitoring, real-time packet analysis, and automation tooling, while applying an ops-first mindset to improve reliability, efficiency, and observability across platforms.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of experience with Python and Go.
• Strong experience with Linux.
• Knowledge of streaming systems architecture and design.
• Experience with big data / columnar stores and time series databases.
• Experience with version control and CI/CD systems.
• App deployment management and lifecycle (CI/CD, Kubernetes).
• Proven had on reliability challenges in infrastructure.

Responsibilities

• Work in a hybrid Systems Engineer / Software Developer capacity on Jump’s internal systems that manage the global infrastructure and colocation footprint.
• Architect, build and maintain streaming monitoring tooling, high performance / real-time packet and flow analysis systems, configuration management and automation frameworks.
• Take an ops-first approach, focusing on improving quality of the platforms for the wider team and always strive to identify improvements and opportunities for further make us more efficient.
• Identify opportunities to make services more efficient and resilient by designing alerting and observability around team and business requirements.
• Do deep-dive debugging sessions on low-level performance issues in complex software stacks.
• Other duties as assigned or needed.

Skills

Python

Go

Linux

Streaming systems

Rust

C/C++

Big data stores

CI/CD

Kubernetes

Networking reliability

Strategic thinking

Networking hardware

Routing protocols

Network design

Tools

Kubernetes

Git

CI/CD pipelines

Docker

Bigtable

ClickHouse

Cassandra

Networking hardware

Job description

Jump Trading Group is seeking a seasoned Systems Engineer / Software Developer to join our hybrid infrastructure teams in Chicago. You will work on internal systems that manage our global colocation footprint and low-latency network stack.

You’ll design and implement streaming monitoring, real-time packet analysis, and automation tooling, while applying an ops-first mindset to improve reliability, efficiency, and observability across platforms.