Junior Trading Systems Engineer

Summary

Hudson River Trading (HRT) is seeking a Junior Trading Systems Engineer to join our growing Trading Systems Infrastructure team. This role focuses on managing and maintaining the infrastructure that supports global trading, ensuring optimal performance and uptime of systems and tools.

Responsibilities

• Manage worldwide Linux-based trading infrastructure by contributing to the planning and execution of complex technical projects and tasks
• Troubleshoot hardware and software issues across the stack
• Plan and implement system installations and upgrades
• Deploy, configure, and test internal and external applications
• Improve documentation and reduce technical debt
• Benchmark the performance of the trading stack, working with subject matter experts across the organization
• Join an on-call rotation schedule to cover trading hours and weekend shifts, as needed

Skills

• 2+ years of relevant experience managing Linux systems: you can install packages, manage users, control services, and know where to look for system logs, and you understand TCP/IP networking, default gateways, and how to debug connectivity problems
• Familiarity installing and configuring Linux systems, from hardware and networking to kernel to applications
• Proven programming experience: you don't just know what big-O notation is, you've also built working software and can explain and defend your design
• Basic shell (bash) scripting experience
• Experience using JIRA
• Strong cross-functional communication and organization skills
• Knowledge of Debian/Ubuntu is desirable
• Basic familiarity with configuration management tools, particularly SaltStack – some knowledge of Puppet, Ansible, Chef, or CFEngine is also desirable
• Experience with production systems, as well as some cloud experience in AWS or GCP, is desirable but not required

Qualifications

Must Haves

• 2+ years of relevant experience managing Linux systems: you can install packages, manage users, control services, and know where to look for system logs, and you understand TCP/IP networking, default gateways, and how to debug connectivity problems
• Familiarity installing and configuring Linux systems, from hardware and networking to kernel to applications
• Proven programming experience: you don't just know what big-O notation is, you've also built working software and can explain and defend your design
• Basic shell (bash) scripting experience
• Experience using JIRA
• Strong cross-functional communication and organization skills

Nice to Haves

• Knowledge of Debian/Ubuntu is desirable
• Basic familiarity with configuration management tools, particularly SaltStack – some knowledge of Puppet, Ansible, Chef, or CFEngine is also desirable
• Experience with production systems, as well as some cloud experience in AWS or GCP, is desirable but not required

Benefits

• Discretionary performance-based bonuses
• A competitive benefits package