Systems Engineer - Low Latency Trading

Hudson River Trading (HRT) is looking for a Trading Systems Engineer to join our growing Trading Systems Infrastructure  team. This team builds and maintains trading infrastructure hyper-optimized for low-latency, operating systems, automation software, and development tools that allow our trading strategies to run worldwide 24/7.

As 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 low-latency solutions. You should possess a passion for coding and automation, along with the ability to handle challenging technical issues within a dynamic and fast-paced setting. 

Responsibilities

• Plan and execute technical projects to make our Linux trading systems (hardware, network, OS, etc.) faster, adaptable, and more maintainable
• Manage and optimize worldwide trading infrastructure
• Automate and troubleshoot a broad range of technical infrastructure 
• Troubleshoot hardware and software issues
• Operate and upgrade system installations
• Deploy, configure, and test internal and external applications 
• Performance testing and tuning
• Script solutions to automate repetitive tasks
• Work with vendors to resolve issues

Qualifications

• 7+ years of relevant experience supporting a live trading environment 
• Expertise in installation, configuration, and troubleshooting of Linux systems, from hardware and kernel to applications
• Experience with configuration management tools, particularly SaltStack but Puppet, Ansible, Chef, or CFEngine are also a plus
• Python programming experience focusing on automation and integration 
• Advanced shell (bash) scripting experience
• Experience managing and debugging production services
• Strong communication and organization skills
• Experience and knowledge of Debian/Ubuntu is a plus
• Ability to manage projects efficiently
• Architect-level cloud experience in AWS or GCP is desirable 

Annual base salary range of $150,000 to $250,000. Pay (base and bonus) may vary depending on job-related skills and experience. A sign-on and discretionary performance bonus may be provided as part of the total compensation package, in addition to company-paid medical and/or other benefits.