Systems Engineer | Production Engineering (Weekend Warrior)

Jump Trading; Chicago, New York (IL, NY); On-site; AUD 140,000 - 200,000; Full time

Job summary

Jump Trading Group is building world-class infrastructure to support its high-performance computing and global trading activities. You will join a globally distributed Production Engineering team and work a weekend warrior schedule with 12-hour shifts, collaborating across time zones.

You will focus on developing tools, diagnosing complex issues, and automating infrastructure tasks using Linux, Go, Python, and configuration management systems like Salt, Puppet, and Ansible.

Qualifications

• Strong Linux expertise and networking fundamentals are essential.
• Experience with scripting languages such as Go or Python.
• Ability to perform root-cause analysis and diagnose complex system issues.

Responsibilities

• Work on global infrastructure projects to support Jump's HPC and trading environments.
• Develop and maintain tooling for diagnosis, triage, and incident resolution.
• Provide on-call-style support during weekend shifts and coordinate with global teams.

Skills

Linux

Networking

Go

Python

Root-cause analysis

Configuration management

Troubleshooting

Tools

Salt

Puppet

Ansible

Job description

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 incenting 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. Our Production Engineering team is based in Chicago, New York, London, Singapore and Sydney with some members in smaller offices or fully remote.

We operate as one global team to support Jump's infrastructure including multiple world-leading High-Performance Computing (HPC) environments and a diverse global trading infrastructure that operates across many global financial markets. The team is responsible for everything from low level infrastructure to applications, making heavy use of both internally developed and open-source software.

As a Systems Engineering Weekend Warrior, you will be working a modified 4- or 5-day work week that includes Saturday and Sunday to help support our infrastructure on a full-time basis.

You will work the equivalent of a third of the weekends in a year (on a schedule agreed with two fellow weekend shift colleagues in your region). During "on" weekends, you will work 12-hour shifts that overlap with colleagues in the other time zone (US & APAC). You'll have two days off during the week, and on workdays, you'll work flexible hours with the rest of the Jump Production Engineering team. Worth noting, other teams have a similar setup, so you will join a virtual 'weekend warrior' team online all weekend in your time zone.

Also, Jump's systems are heavily automated so most of your time will be focused on project work – but you will be available for immediate troubleshooting and support as required.

What You'll Do:

• Work on global projects across a wide range of infrastructure
• Manage and resolve technical issues with a high degree of technical complexity
• Develop tools that will help in diagnosing, resolving, and triaging difficult problems
• Other duties as assigned or required (we pride ourselves on avoiding "siloing", so this will include widely different engineering projects
• Work a modified work week, which includes the weekends

Skills You'll Need:

• An insatiable desire to learn
• Expert Linux knowledge
• Some Networking knowledge and a willingness to learn more
• Scripting competence with either Go or Python (and a willing to learn both)
• Extensive experience profiling and debugging application stacks
• Extensive experience designing, building, and maintaining complicated systems
• Experience with system configuration management tools (Salt, Puppet, Ansible, etc.)
• A compulsion to perform root-cause analysis
• Reliable and predictable availability