Site Reliability Engineer

Jump Trading Group is committed to world class research. We empower exceptional talents in Mathematics, Physics, and Computer Science to seek scientific boundaries, push through them, and apply cutting edge research to global financial markets. Our culture is unique. Constant innovation requires fearlessness, creativity, intellectual honesty, and a relentless competitive streak. We believe in winning together and unlocking unique individual talent by incenting collaboration and mutual respect. At Jump, research outcomes drive more than superior risk adjusted returns. We design, develop, and deploy technologies that change our world, fund start-ups across industries, and partner with leading global research organizations and universities to solve problems.

Trading Infrastructure is a global organization of Engineers who architect, build and maintain our world-class infrastructure. From colocation design/implementation, to optimizing our exchange connectivity, to building world class low latent Wide Area Networks, we leverage research and automation to consistently adapt and innovate our infrastructure to scale and drive our trading and evolving business.

We are looking for exceptional talent that can work closely and collaborate effectively across multiple teams spread around the globe and continue to take our infrastructure to the next level.

What You'll Do:

• Work in a hybrid Systems Engineer / Software Developer capacity on Jump's internal systems that manage the global infrastructure and colocation footprint
• Architect, build and maintain streaming monitoring tooling, high performance / real-time packet and flow analysis systems, configuration management and automation frameworks
• Take an ops-first approach, focusing on improving quality of the platforms for the wider team and always strive to identify improvements and opportunities to make us more efficient
• Identify opportunities to make services more efficient and resilient by designing alerting and observability around team and business requirements
• Do deep-dive debugging sessions on low-level performance issues in complex software stacks
• Other duties as assigned or needed

Skills You'll Need:

• 5+ years of experience with Python and Go
• Strong experience with Linux
• Knowledge of streaming systems architecture and design
• Message/streaming queues (Apache Kafka, RabbitMQ, etc.)
• Working knowledge of Rust, C/C++
• Experience with big data / columnar style data stores (Bigtable, ClickHouse, Cassandra) and time series databases
• Experience working with version control and CI/CD systems
• App deployment management and lifecycle (CI/CD, Kubernetes, pods/containers)
• Proven knowledge of working on infrastructure challenges in a reliability capacity
• Previous experience demonstrating strategic thinking skills and maturity in tackling complex problems, dealing with people, technology and processes
• Reliable and predictable availability

Bonus Points:

• Experience with Rust
• Prior exposure to Arista or Cisco hardware
• Routing protocol knowledge
• Prior network design knowledge

BenefitsDiscretionary bonus eligibility Medical, dental, and vision insuranceHSA, FSA, and Dependent Care optionsEmployer Paid Group Term Life and AD&D InsuranceVoluntary Life & AD&D insurancePaid vacation plus paid holidaysRetirement plan with employer matchPaid parental leaveWellness Programs

Annual Base Salary Range : $200,000 USD - $225,000 USD