Trading Systems Engineer

4 weeks ago


Chicago, United States Tardis Tech Full time

About the Company:


A prominent technology-driven trading firm, operating with proprietary capital across diverse asset classes, instruments, and strategies globally.


Role Overview:


The Trading Systems Engineer, based in Chicago, plays a pivotal role in supporting trading operations and research for one of the most successful futures trading desks out there. By maintaining and expanding high-performance trading infrastructure. Collaborating closely with experienced colleagues, this individual integrates cutting-edge network and compute technologies with internally developed hardware and software to sustain the company's industry-leading trading system architecture.


Key Responsibilities:


  • Collaborate with researchers, traders, and developers to architect, expand, and maintain high-performance trading and research systems.
  • Assume ownership of infrastructure, including designing and implementing new deployment solutions.
  • Propose scalable, reliable, and high-performance solutions while addressing troubleshooting requirements.
  • Develop and extend system automation for repeat processes and reliability.
  • Integrate and monitor various systems within the trading stack.
  • Identify and evaluate new and cutting-edge technologies.


Requirements:


  • 7+ years of Linux experience; minimum of 2 years working on infrastructure in a trading system environment strongly preferred.
  • Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, or equivalent preferred.
  • Demonstrated knowledge of network communications, including comprehensive understanding of the Linux TCP-IP stack and network protocol interactions.
  • Experience in performance tuning of Linux on x86_64 based systems.
  • Proficiency in Linux administration, deployment, and configuration management.
  • Experience managing a high-performance compute environment such as Spectrum LSF, slurm, or PBS is a plus.
  • Hands-on development experience in scripting languages like Bash, Python, or Ruby.
  • Familiarity with configuration management software such as Ansible, Chef, or Puppet.
  • Experience with compilation and packaging of open-source software.
  • Strong diagnostic capabilities across application layer, network, and low-level hardware.
  • Experience with network capture, time synchronization, and network offload systems is advantageous.
  • High level of ownership, accountability, reliability, and strong follow-through.


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