Trading Systems Engineer

Hudson River Trading; Chicago (IL); On-site; USD 150,000 - 250,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical insurance

Dental insurance

Vision insurance

Retirement savings plans

Paid vacation days

Paid holidays

Job summary

Hudson River Trading is looking for a Trading Systems Engineer to enhance their trading systems infrastructure. This role involves managing and optimizing Linux-based trading systems, troubleshooting production issues, and automating processes primarily in Python. The ideal candidate should have over 7 years of experience supporting production environments, strong shell scripting skills, and familiarity with configuration management tools. The position offers a competitive salary range of $150,000 to $250,000 annually, along with a robust benefits package including medical, dental, and generous vacation days.

Qualifications

• 7+ years of relevant experience supporting a live production environment, especially in trading.
• Expert in installing, configuring, and troubleshooting Linux systems.
• Proficiency with automation tools and advanced programming experience.

Responsibilities

• Manage and optimize Linux-based trading infrastructure.
• Troubleshoot hardware and software issues across the stack.
• Design and implement system installations and upgrades.

Skills

Linux systems administration

Automation using Python

Shell scripting (bash)

Configuration management (SaltStack, Puppet, Ansible)

Cloud experience in AWS or GCP

Tools

JIRA

Debian/Ubuntu

Job description

Hudson River Trading (HRT) is seeking a Trading Systems Engineer to join our growing Trading Systems Infrastructure team. This team designs, builds, and maintains the infrastructure that powers our global trading, and is responsible for ensuring optimal performance and uptime of the ultra low-latency operating systems, automation software, and development tools that allow our trading strategies to run worldwide 24/7.

As a Trading Systems Engineer, you’ll work on projects focusing on our real-time production trading environment and tackle problems that require high availability, high throughput, and ultra low-latency solutions. The ideal candidate possesses a passion for coding and automation, is eager to learn new skills to help build an elegant stack, and has the ability to handle challenging technical issues within a dynamic and fast-paced environment.

Responsibilities

• Design, manage, automate, and optimize worldwide Linux-based trading infrastructure by planning and executing complex technical projects and tasks
• Troubleshoot hardware and software issues across the stack
• Design and implement system installations and upgrades
• Deploy, configure, and test internal and external applications
• Remain unfazed by production-critical issues, resolving them quickly and efficiently
• Benchmark and tune the performance of the trading stack
• Hold vendors accountable on performance and reliability issues, with the ability to confidently go toe-to-toe with a vendor's Tier 2 engineering team during an escalation
• Join an on-call rotation schedule to cover trading hours and weekend shifts, as needed

Qualifications

• 7+ years of relevant experience supporting a live production environment (especially trading)
• Expert in installing, configuring, and troubleshooting Linux systems, from hardware and networking to kernel to applications
• Knowledge of Debian/Ubuntu is desirable
• Proficiency with configuration management tools, particularly SaltStack – strong knowledge of Puppet, Ansible, Chef, or CFEngine is also desirable
• Advanced programming experience focusing on automation and integration; Python is strongly preferred
• Advanced shell (bash) scripting experience
• Significant experience managing and debugging production trading services
• Strong cross-functional communication and organization skills
• Proven ability to manage assigned projects efficiently, ideally using JIRA
• Architect-level cloud experience in AWS or GCP is desirable, but not required

Benefits

The estimated base salary range for this position is 150,000 to 250,000 USD per year (or local equivalent). The base pay offered may vary depending on multiple individualized factors, including location, job-related knowledge, skills, and experience. This role will also be eligible for discretionary performance-based bonuses and a competitive benefits package which includes medical, dental, vision, basic life insurance, and enrollment in our company’s retirement savings plans. Employees will receive sick and parental leave, as well as other paid time off including 20 vacation days and 10 paid holidays in the US. Please note that benefits and time off policies will vary across non-US locations.

Equal Opportunity Employer

HRT is an equal opportunity employer; so whoever you are we’d love to get to know you.