Systems Engineer II

Tower Research Capital; New York (NY); On-site; USD 120,000 - 160,000; Full time

Job summary

Tower Research Capital, a leading quantitative trading firm, seeks an experienced Linux/HPC engineer to maintain and scale our trading Linux infrastructure and research HPC systems in New York. You will collaborate with trading and engineering teams to keep a high-performance platform running.

Responsibilities include rapid incident response, deployment of planned changes, and automation of provisioning, configuration, and monitoring for thousands of Linux servers, plus managing core services

Qualifications

• Experience in maintenance, operation, and administration of a Linux environment.
• Daily use of and contribution to automating and monitoring tools.

Responsibilities

• Support, maintain, and enhance trading Linux infrastructure.
• Support, maintain, and enhance HPC infrastructure for research.
• Provide Linux/HPC support including emergency response.
• Execute planned changes, updates, and deployment projects within the Linux server infrastructure.
• Manage HPC systems to support trading operations and Condor Job scheduler.
• Advanced profiling and troubleshooting of performance issues within Linux servers.
• Develop tools to automate provisioning, configuration, and monitoring of thousands of Linux servers.
• Manage core services such as DHCP, LDAP, DNS, and NFS across data centers and clouds.
• Participate in on-call rotation and weekend shifts.
• Engage in daily communication with trading teams and core engineering.
• Stay up-to-date with HPC, storage, and GPU computing best practices.

Skills

Linux administration

Automation & monitoring

Tools

Condor Job Scheduler

Job description

Tower Research Capital is a leading quantitative trading firm founded in 1998. Tower has built its business on a high-performance platform and independent trading teams. We have a 25+ year track record of innovation and a reputation for discovering unique market opportunities.

Tower is home to some of the world’s best systematic trading and engineering talent. We empower portfolio managers to build their teams and strategies independently while providing the economies of scale that come from a large, global organization.

Engineers thrive at Tower while developing electronic trading infrastructure at a world class level. Our engineers solve challenging problems in the realms of low-latency programming, FPGA technology, hardware acceleration and machine learning. Our ongoing investment in top engineering talent and technology ensures our platform remains unmatched in terms of functionality, scalability and performance.

At Tower, every employee plays a role in our success. Our Business Support teams are essential to building and maintaining the platform that powers everything we do — combining market access, data, compute, and research infrastructure with risk management, compliance, and a full suite of business services. Our Business Support teams enable our trading and engineering teams to perform at their best.

At Tower, employees will find a stimulating, results-oriented environment where highly intelligent and motivated colleagues inspire each other to reach their greatest potential.

Responsibilities

• Supporting, maintaining, and enhancing the firm's trading Linux infrastructure
• Supporting, maintaining, and enhancing the firm's HPC infrastructure for research
• Providing support specifically for the Linux and HPC environments including:
• Emergency response
• Execution of planned changes, updates, and deployment projects within the Linux server infrastructure
• Manage HPC systems to support trading operations and Condor Job scheduler
• Advanced profiling and troubleshooting of performance issues specifically within the Linux servers environment
• Contributing to the development and refinement of tools and systems to automate provisioning, configuration, and monitoring of thousands of Linux servers
• Management of essential core services such as DHCP, LDAP, DNS, and NFS for on-prem and hosted data centers as well as public clouds
• Participating in an on-call rotation and occasional weekend shifts
• Engaging in daily direct communication with trading teams and core engineering
• Stay up-to-date with the latest technologies and best practices in HPC, storage, and GPU computing.

Qualifications

• Experience in maintenance, operation, and administration of a sufficiently advanced Linux environment
• Daily use of and contribution to developing automation and monitoring tools