Systems Software Engineer role at Hudson River Trading
Overview
The Systems Development team builds and maintains the platform that is shared by all Systems teams to provision, monitor, and manage our server and network infrastructure. As a Systems Software Engineer, your main focus will be tool development in Python. You’ll improve and integrate our existing tools and libraries across the platform, as well as design and build new ones to make trading, research, installation, and monitoring systems easier to manage and more reliable. Strong Python skills and development experience are required, along with Unix experience.
Responsibilities
* Building and maintaining tools and software features to automate systems engineering workflows related to machine provisioning, monitoring, metrics collection, maintenance, and network configuration
* Troubleshooting software bugs on a fleet of Linux machines, including application, network, operating system, and/or kernel issues
* Writing configuration management code to build, deploy, and maintain new services
* Helping to set the general direction for the Systems Python platform
Qualifications
Required:
* Strong Python programming
* Ability to debug and analyze problems quickly
* Ability to learn at a fast pace and apply new skills effectively
* Strong grasp of computer science fundamentals and software design patterns
* Solid understanding of Linux/UNIX operating systems
Preferred:
* Understanding of Debian operating system
* Familiarity with systems configuration management and monitoring technologies
* Familiarity with continuous integration and continuous deployment tools and processes
* Understanding of networking protocols
Profile
* BS and/or MS in computer science or a related field
* 2+ years of relevant experience, including programming in Python
* Experience using automation to solve problems and improve processes efficiently
* Acts effectively as a team player but also work well independently
* Skilled at juggling multiple tasks while maintaining a high level of attention to detail
* Familiar with open-source software
Culture
Hudson River Trading (HRT) brings a scientific approach to trading financial products. We have built one of the world\'s most sophisticated computing environments for research and development. Our researchers are at the forefront of innovation in the world of algorithmic trading. We welcome a variety of expertise and value openness and transparency. We are an equal opportunity employer; we’d love to get to know you.
Details
* Seniority level: Mid-Senior level
* Employment type: Full-time
* Job function: Finance
* Industries: Capital Markets
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