Senior Linux Engineer — High-Performance Trading Infra

Acquire Me

Chicago (IL)

Hybrid

USD 120,000 - 160,000

Full time

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Job summary

Acquire Me seeks a Senior Linux Engineer to shape infrastructure supporting trading and development teams. You will own a substantial Linux estate, focusing on performance, reliability, and scalable deployment strategies.

The role involves deep-dive problem solving with engineers and traders, and building automation to improve consistency and scale. You will influence hardware/software choices, enhance deployment tooling, and drive projects from design through production in a fast-paced trading

Qualifications

  • Extensive Linux engineering experience in large-scale, highly available server environments.
  • Experience with Ansible or Puppet for configuration management.
  • Automation scripting in Python or Bash.
  • Diagnose Linux performance issues across CPU, memory, storage and networking.
  • Experience with repeatable server provisioning, software packaging, repository management and monitoring.
  • Strong networking knowledge: routing, multicast, core infrastructure services.
  • Background supporting latency-sensitive workloads in a trading environment.
  • Familiarity with virtualization, private cloud or container platforms.

Responsibilities

  • Hands-on role focusing on Linux performance tuning for trading infrastructure.
  • Investigate issues, improve performance, and build automation for scale.
  • Work with trading and engineering teams to deploy reliable systems.

Skills

Linux
Ansible
Puppet
Python
Bash
Performance tuning
Networking
Latency-sensitive
Virtualization
Containers

Job description

Acquire Me seeks a Senior Linux Engineer to shape infrastructure supporting trading and development teams. You will own a substantial Linux estate, focusing on performance, reliability, and scalable deployment strategies.

The role involves deep-dive problem solving with engineers and traders, and building automation to improve consistency and scale. You will influence hardware/software choices, enhance deployment tooling, and drive projects from design through production in a fast-paced trading

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