Software Engineer – Site Reliability Engineering

Description

The company is a global quantitative and systematic investment manager that trades across all liquid asset classes worldwide, using a data and technology driven, scientific approach to investing.

You will join a small, experienced team building a new bare-metal trading platform from scratch.

Responsibilities

• Take part in the team's on-call rota.
• Own the design, deployment, configuration and day-to-day operation of the physical infrastructure, including servers, switches, storage and other specialised hardware.
• Own the trading application environment, which is built from artifacts that developers and researchers deploy continuously.
• Own the observability stack for the whole platform.
• Own the intent-driven system that manages all platform elements as one coherent system.
• Work with traders, researchers, application developers and other internal teams, as well as external service providers.
• Resolve complex issues in a critical production environment, applying quick fixes when needed and turning them into engineered solutions afterwards.

Requirements

• A Bachelor's, Master's or PhD in Computer Science, Computer Engineering or Electrical Engineering.
• Strong problem-solving skills and a solid grasp of computer science fundamentals.
• Hands-on experience with Linux systems.
• A proven record of designing and delivering scalable systems in production.
• Experience with infrastructure-as-code tools.
• Experience with monitoring and observability tools.
• A deep understanding of servers, switches and operating systems.
• Expertise in synchronising and propagating ultra-precise timing signals.
• Knowledge of low-latency systems, trading environments, market data or exchange protocols.

Conditions

Requirements for the role are listed above; the team is small and experienced and the work is on a greenfield bare-metal platform.

The company is an equal opportunity employer and values diversity.

Benefits

• The company offers initiatives and programmes to support a healthy work-life balance.