Ssg
Production Engineer
New York, USA
Sponsorship not specified$150k-$200kDetected 182 days ago
PythonC++AnsibleLinuxGrafanaSite Reliability EngineeringpytestWireshark
About the role
- Exceptional trading emerges where human intuition meets frictionless experimentation.
- The Team: Production Engineering is responsible for the daily operation of the Trading System.
- Our trading system is a set of distributed network applications running on Linux hosts.
Responsibilities
- Our system needs to interface with a large number of external systems which occasionally have their own problems.
Requirements
- A Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field (Minimum GPA of 3.5 for recent graduates).
- Our high-performance trading engines run on C++, and the ability to read or interface with that codebase is valuable.
- While not required, familiarity with C++ is a strong plus.
Compensation
- The anticipated base salary for this role is $150,000 - $200,000.
- Please note that base salary is only one component of our total compensation package and does not include performance-based bonuses.
Benefits
- We offer competitive compensation, 401(K) matching, gender-neutral parental leave, and comprehensive medical, dental, and vision insurance.
- Bonus (C++): While not required, familiarity with C++ is a strong plus.
- In-office perks include lunch stipends, fully stocked kitchens, happy hours, and a great location with amazing colleagues.
Company info
- Summit is an established systematic trading firm.
- We are looking for a skilled engineer in NYC to join our existing Production Engineering team.
- We use a mix of open-source and proprietary software to provide low latency direct market access to support a variety of systematic trading strategies.
- Production Engineering focuses on several areas of development: Monitoring / Alerting (e.g., Grafana, Wireshark) Deployment and Testing (Ansible, pytest) System Optimization (C++, hardware testing) Who We Are Looking For: Linux Native: Comfortable with file/process management, system troubleshooting, debugging, configuration, networking.
- GitOps: Understands the value of treating infrastructure as code, treating servers as cattle, not pets.
- Problem Solver: Our system needs to interface with a large number of external systems which occasionally have their own problems.
- A successful production engineer will notice patterns and propose upgrades that make everything more resilient.
- Tactical: Production Engineers must weigh risk/reward constantly when making decisions that impact the bottom line of our trading business.
- They need to understand the technical side of the system well enough to help traders and other non-technical users navigate these choices.
- High performance networking: Experience utilizing latest technology to achieve low deterministic latency with the highest possible throughput with the least possible jitter. (kernel bypass, hardware timestamping, multicast, cut through switches, etc.) You Bring: Experience: 1-3 years of professional production engineering, site reliability engineering, system administration or related.
- Education: A Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field (Minimum GPA of 3.5 for recent graduates).
- Primary Language: Strong command of Python for backend development.
Equal opportunity
- equal opportunity employer.
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