Systems Software Engineer

job summary:

The Systems Development team builds and maintains the platform that is shared by all Systems teams to provision, monitor, and manage our server and network infrastructure. As a Systems Software Engineer, your main focus will be tool development in Python. You'll improve and integrate our existing tools and libraries across the platform, as well as design and building new ones to make trading, research, installation, and monitoring systems easier to manage and more reliable. strong Python skills and development experience are required, along with Unix experience.

This role offers a unique opportunity to have a significant impact on a critical part of our existing and growing infrastructure. Your responsibilities will vary, but a typical day in the life might look like:

• Building and maintaining tools and software features to automate systems engineering workflows related to machine provisioning, monitoring, metrics collection, maintenance, and network configuration

• Troubleshooting software bugs on a fleet of Linux machines, including application, network, operating system, and/or kernel issues

• Writing configuration management code to build, deploy, and maintain new services

• Helping to set the general direction for the Systems Python platform

location: NEW YORK, New York

job type: Permanent

salary: $150,000 - 250,000 per year

work hours: 9am to 5pm

education: Bachelors



responsibilities:

As a Systems Software Engineer, you will play a pivotal role in developing and maintaining tools that streamline and optimize our server and network infrastructure, directly impacting trading, research, installation, and monitoring systems. Your primary responsibility will be focused on enhancing our platform's tools and libraries using Python to improve efficiency, reliability, and scalability. Here's a look at your main duties:

Tool Development and Integration: Design, build, and integrate new tools and enhance existing ones to support automated systems engineering workflows, including machine provisioning, monitoring, metrics collection, maintenance, and network configuration.

Troubleshooting and Issue Resolution: Identify, debug, and resolve software issues across a fleet of Linux machines, including application, network, OS, and kernel-related problems.

Configuration Management: Write configuration management code for the deployment and maintenance of new services, ensuring seamless integration and operational stability.

Platform Strategy and Improvement: Contribute to setting the technical direction for the Systems Python platform by developing best practices, driving innovation, and proposing enhancements.

Collaboration and Teamwork: Work collaboratively within the Systems Development team, engaging with cross-functional teams to enhance platform functionality, reliability, and efficiency.

qualifications:

• Experience level: Entry Level
• Minimum 2 years of experience
• Education: Bachelors (required)

skills:

• Linux

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