Production Reliability Engineer, Trading team

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.

Our trading teams are each comprised of a dynamic group of traders, quantitative researchers, and engineers who work together to examine the global markets, seeking to understand the complexities of various traded products and exchanges. They leverage their impeccable statistical analysis and data mining skills, using the results of their research to make forecasts and develop profitable predictive trading models.

What you'll do:

The Trading team PRE will solve complex problems that require both technical and business understanding. The engineer will work with traders, quantitative researchers, back-office teams, exchanges, and developers to optimize the trading environment and investigate and solve system issues.

• Manage the production environment, driving performance, reliability, and operability through continuous improvement
• Proactively monitor and troubleshoot large-scale trading systems and exchange connectivity, ensuring strategies are connected to all markets
• Ensure data is available and in the right volume and format
• Leverage firm-wide metrics to improve scalability and system performance
• Collaborate across the technology organization to analyze and troubleshoot complex system problems
• Work closely with Risk Management and Trade Support teams to coordinate changes and manage incidents
• Interact directly with traders to communicate and drive technology changes, manage incidents, and troubleshoot problems
• Work with Clearing team to reconcile trades and position breaks
• Assess and manage operational risk of changes into the production environment
• Define and document process and procedure

Skills you'll need:

• Degree in Computer Science, a related field, or equivalent professional experience
• At least 2 years of relevant work experience in an IT ops role, such as DevOps, SRE, Linux Systems Engineering, or Network Engineering, in a trading environment (buy or sell side)
• Fluency in python and shell scripting
• A rigorous, detail-oriented approach to operations
• A deep sense of ownership and urgency
• Ability to handle shared operational and periodic on-call duties
• Familiarity with C++ and the linux operating system are helpful but not required

If you are currently a student or recent graduate, please see our Campus postings which offer both Summer and Full-Time opportunities.