Site Reliability Engineer

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 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 colocation 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.

We are looking for exceptional talent that can work closely and collaborate effectively across multiple teams spread around the globe and continue to take our infrastructure to the next level.

What You'll Do:

• 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 You’ll Need:

• 5+ years experience with Python, Go
• Strong experience with Linux
• Knowledge of streaming systems architecture and design
• Working knowledge of Rust, C/C++
• Experience with big data / columnar style data stores (Bigtable, Clickhouse, Cassandra) and time series databases
• Experience working with version control and CI/CD systems.
• App deployment management and lifecycle (CI/CD, Kubernetes, pods/containers)
• Proven knowledge of working on infrastructure challenges in a reliability capacity
• Previous experience demonstrating strategic thinking skills and maturity in tackling complex problems, dealing with people, technology and processes
• Reliable and predictable availability
• Experience with Rust
• Prior exposure to Arista or Cisco hardware
• Routing protocol knowledge
• Prior network design knowledge
• Discretionary bonus eligibility
• Medical, dental, and vision insurance
• HSA, FSA, and Dependent Care options
• Employer Paid Group Term Life and AD&D Insurance