Junior Trading Systems Engineer: Low-Latency Linux

Aplaro Ltd; New York, Chicago (NY, IL); On-site; USD 120,000 - 160,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Discretionary bonuses

Competitive benefits

Job summary

Hudson River Trading is seeking a Junior Trading Systems Engineer to join our Trading Systems Infrastructure team. This role focuses on maintaining the Linux-based production trading stack, ensuring high availability, low latency, and smooth deployment of automation tools that power our global trading operations 24/7.

You will work on real-time systems, troubleshoot across the stack, participate in installations and upgrades, and contribute to documentation and performance benchmarking.

Qualifications

• 2+ years of relevant experience managing Linux systems: install packages, manage users, control services, and debug logs.
• Familiarity installing and configuring Linux systems from hardware and networking to kernel to applications.
• Knowledge of Debian/Ubuntu is desirable.
• Basic familiarity with configuration management tools, particularly SaltStack – some knowledge of Puppet, Ansible, Chef, or CFEngine is also desirable.
• Proven programming experience: you don't just know what big‑O notation is, you've built working software and can explain your design.
• Basic shell (bash) scripting experience.
• Experience using JIRA.
• Strong cross‑functional communication and organization skills.
• Experience with production systems, and cloud experience in AWS or GCP is desirable but not required.

Responsibilities

• Manage worldwide Linux-based trading infrastructure by contributing to the planning and execution of complex technical projects and tasks.
• Troubleshoot hardware and software issues across the stack.
• Plan and implement system installations and upgrades.
• Deploy, configure, and test internal and external applications.
• Improve documentation and reduce technical debt.
• Benchmark the performance of the trading stack, working with subject matter experts across the organization.
• Join an on-call rotation schedule to cover trading hours and weekend shifts, as needed.

Skills

Linux administration

Programming experience

Shell scripting

Communication

On-call coordination

Tools

SaltStack

Puppet

Ansible

CFEngine

JIRA

Job description

Hudson River Trading is seeking a Junior Trading Systems Engineer to join our Trading Systems Infrastructure team. This role focuses on maintaining the Linux-based production trading stack, ensuring high availability, low latency, and smooth deployment of automation tools that power our global trading operations 24/7.

You will work on real-time systems, troubleshoot across the stack, participate in installations and upgrades, and contribute to documentation and performance benchmarking.