Junior Trading Systems Engineer
Hudson River Trading
Overview
As a Junior Trading Systems Engineer you will help manage and improve the Linux-based trading infrastructure that powers global, low-latency trading. You’ll work with the Trading Systems Infrastructure team on high-availability, high-throughput projects in a real-time production environment. You’ll tackle challenging technical issues and contribute to an elegant automation stack, supporting 24/7 trading operations. This role offers hands-on exposure to scalable systems, cutting-edge tooling, and cross-functional collaboration that shapes our trading platform.
Pay / Benefits- discretionary performance-based bonuses
- competitive benefits package
- Manage worldwide Linux-based trading infrastructure and contribute to complex technical projects
- Troubleshoot hardware and software issues across the stack
- Plan and implement system installations and upgrades
- Deploy, configure, and test internal and external applications
- Improve documentation and reduce technical debt
- Benchmark trading stack performance with SMEs across the organization
- Join on-call rotation to cover trading hours and weekends as needed
- 2+ years of experience managing Linux systems (package installation, user management, services, logs)
- Familiarity with installing and configuring Linux systems from hardware to applications
- Knowledge of Debian/Ubuntu is desirable
- Basic experience with configuration management tools (SaltStack preferred; Puppet/Ansible/CFEngine desirable)
- Proven programming experience and ability to defend design decisions
- Basic shell scripting (bash)
- Experience using JIRA
- Strong cross-functional communication and organization skills
- Desirable experience with production systems and cloud (AWS or GCP)
- cross-functional communication
- organization
- reliability under on-call load
- Linux system administration
- TCP/IP networking and debugging
- Debian/Ubuntu
Reference: WJ-747_30181985