Junior Trading Systems Engineer

Overview

As a Junior Trading Systems Engineer you will help manage and improve the Linux-based trading infrastructure that powers global, low-latency trading. You’ll work with the Trading Systems Infrastructure team on high-availability, high-throughput projects in a real-time production environment. You’ll tackle challenging technical issues and contribute to an elegant automation stack, supporting 24/7 trading operations. This role offers hands-on exposure to scalable systems, cutting-edge tooling, and cross-functional collaboration that shapes our trading platform.

Pay / Benefits

• discretionary performance-based bonuses
• competitive benefits package

Responsibilities

• Manage worldwide Linux-based trading infrastructure and contribute to complex technical projects
• 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 trading stack performance with SMEs across the organization
• Join on-call rotation to cover trading hours and weekends as needed

Key requirements

• 2+ years of experience managing Linux systems (package installation, user management, services, logs)
• Familiarity with installing and configuring Linux systems from hardware to applications
• Knowledge of Debian/Ubuntu is desirable
• Basic experience with configuration management tools (SaltStack preferred; Puppet/Ansible/CFEngine desirable)
• Proven programming experience and ability to defend design decisions
• Basic shell scripting (bash)
• Experience using JIRA
• Strong cross-functional communication and organization skills
• Desirable experience with production systems and cloud (AWS or GCP)

• cross-functional communication
• organization
• reliability under on-call load
• Linux system administration
• TCP/IP networking and debugging
• Debian/Ubuntu

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