FalconX

Site Reliability Engineer

San Francisco, CA Chicago, IL
USD 155k - 245k
Java Go AWS Git Python Kubernetes Docker MySQL Shell
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Description

Who are we?

FalconX is the most advanced digital asset platform for institutions. We provide trade execution, credit & treasury management, prime offering and market making services. Given our global operations, industry-leading technology and deep liquidity, we have facilitated client transactions of $1 trillion in volume. Our products & services are regulated, compliant and trusted.

We are a team of engineers, product builders, institutional sales and trading leaders, operations experts, and business strategists. Our teammates have entrepreneurial experience and come from companies such as Google, Apple, Paypal, Citadel, Bridgewater, and Goldman Sachs. And, we embody our values: Think big; Drive bold outcomes; Be one team; Iterate with speed; and be an entrepreneur.

We prioritize learning. Outcomes are mission-critical, but we also believe that learning in success and in failure will drive our continued success. Our industry is emergent - there’s no shortage of experiments to get involved with and to continue growing and learning together. 

 

Responsibilities

  • Be part of a SRE team, dedicated to an internal platform.
  • Work closely with middleware teams and trading teams to improve the system reliability, scalability and security.
  • Engage in and improve the infrastructure quality supporting the platform.
  • Build and manage systems, infrastructure and applications through automation.
  • Provide operational support to internal teams working on the platform.
  • Work on improvements to bring in high efficiency, reduce latency, deploy systems faster.
  • Practice sustainable incident response and blameless postmortems.
  • Together with your engineering team, you will share an on-call rotation and be an escalation contact for service incidents.

 

Minimum Qualification

  • BS with 5 years or MS with 3 years working experience as Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) / Devops Engineer
  • Experience with programming in at least one of the following languages: C, C++, Java, Python, or Go
  • Experience working with trading systems from a high frequency trading shop, investment banking or crypto company
  • Deep knowledge of Linux internals.
  • Strong skills around observability, debugging and performance tuning, willing to dive into understanding, debugging, and improving any layer of the stack.
  • Strong experience in managing infrastructure with providers like AWS.
  • Strong experience in Cloud Native technologies in kubernetes, docker etc.
  • Basic knowledge of RDBMS systems like mysql.
  • Understanding of networking protocols such as TCP/IP.

 

Preferred Qualification

 

  • System administrator
    • OS setup and configure, modules install, dependencies and versions tracking
    • Help to find modules, resolve missed dependencies or conflicts, setup new user, setup ulimit, core dumps setup
    • Dev environment setup, help with customization (vim, git, terminal, etc)
    • OS upgrade as needed, understanding of OS stability and bugs management
    • Kernel / user services setup
    • Shell scripts and automated jobs, help with shell scripting
    • Work with devOps on production environment setup and support
    • Resolve system issues (dmesg etc)
    Network engineer
    • Network setup, interfaces and services configuration
    • Security and permissions understanding, DMZ understanding
    • Switch and routers configuration
    • Linux routing table and services, multiple IPs per interface, virtual networks setup
    • Experience with TCP dump, collect traffic statistics, understanding of network latency and bottlenecks
    HFT system administrator and network engineer
    • HFT OS configuration, tickless core, cores isolation, irq binding, system processes affinity, numa pci configuration, numa memory configuration, huge pages setup, Intel CAT setup.
    • OS HFT configuration validation, able to read system events (thread context switching, IRQ rate per core).
    • Module and kernel customization and build.
    • HFT network cards experience (SolarFlare or other), 10G, 100G ethernet experience, traditional markets colo experience, corvil experience, ethernet fragmentation, packets gap and frames format understanding
    • Kernel bypass setup (ef_vi, openonload), FPGA network cards experience

 

Base pay for this role is expected to be between $155,000 and $245,000 USD. This expected base pay range is based on information at the time this post was generated. This role will also be eligible for other forms of compensation such as a performance linked bonus, equity, and a competitive benefits package. Actual compensation for a successful candidate will be determined based on a number of factors such as skillset, experience, and qualifications.

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