Senior Platform Linux Systems and Hardware Engineer

Our Client is a global financial services firm located in NYC. Our client's Electronic Trading Infrastructure is looking for a hands-on Senior Systems Linux Specialist to help lead, design, and integrate/build the low-latency operating system and physical infrastructure to allow the firms Electronic Trading. The successful candidate will work in tight collaboration across our engineering, release management, operations and estate management teams with a keen attention on quality, testing, and validation of surrounding dependencies.

What they bring to the table

Opportunities to develop and grow as an engineer

We are always expanding into new areas, including exploring new technologies in our New York lab.

• A global team of incredibly capable and dedicated peers, from engineering through operations.
• A stable, collaborative and supportive work environment - We work together to get things done and adapt to the changing needs of our end-users and teams members.

Breadth and Depth

We sit across all functions of the trading infrastructure which allows us to go deep to help optimize every manual and tedious task that we encounter regardless of platform or process.

Growth and Mentorship

Opportunities to deliver projects of expanding impact, improve professional skills that complement technical skills and partner with senior leadership on objectives.

Qualifications

Linux Depth

Must be comfortable building systems from scratch, changing configuration and amending code-paths and debugging core-dumps

Hardware Depth

Must be comfortable with the internals of servers and principles of drivers with a key focus

FPGA Knowledge

Can demonstrate high-levels of proficiency oh the how / why for Hardware Acceleration in workloads and the most common methods of developing, deploying and managing this specialized hardware.

Performance Depth

Tuning systems or networks of systems for performance brings out your best.

Operational Excellence

Data excites you and you make decisions based on data rather than assumptions. You have done data analytics and pipelines from scratch to prove a point.

Network Knowledge

demonstrating high levels of proficiency in network principles (routing & switching) for the first hop off the box as well a thorough understanding of the TCP/IP protocol stack.

Leadership

We work in a fast-paced environment requiring clarity-of-thought and articulations across a diverse range of stakeholders to drive outcomes. Ability to identify work, work-independently and solve problems.

Fearless Engineering

You move outside your comfort zone to pick up new skills and solve broader problems across the technology stack.

Technical Excellence

You can speak to the trade-offs and have implemented industry best practices in Infrastructure-as-Code, continuous delivery, automated testing, security practices, performance, high-availability and disaster-recovery