Job Description
Job Description
Sr. DevOps Software Engineer
HFT (High-Frequency Trading) Experience required
The Development Tools team is responsible for liaising with various internal research and development teams to help them become more productive through the delivery and support of novel solutions that utilize our hybrid cloud infrastructure.
Responsibilities
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Understanding development team needs and evangelizing appropriate open-source and proprietary tools to push the boundaries of automation and productivity
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Liaising with developers and QA teams to implement efficient and robust frameworks supporting development, test, and release workflows for critical trading applications
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Scaling up the CI/CD infrastructure using our hybrid cloud while monitoring its health and effectiveness; drive fixes to underlying problems and optimizations to improve efficiency
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Quickly detecting, debugging, and resolving build and process failures for non-code related causes
Some of the tools and challenges that you'll get a chance to work on include:
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A user-space package manager. We build, distribute, and support hundreds of packages used by everyone. We now need to scale it to work with thousands of nodes.
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A smart build system. We need someone to evolve the build system to make builds faster and provide seamless access to code testing/quality tools.
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A dependency and release management tool. We have a shiny new tool to help us deal with the complexity of millions of lines of code spread amongst multiple repositories being modified by hundreds of developers across multiple time zones.
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Continuous Integration system. To make sure all of the code that developers are writing is well tested and deployed correctly, we have a growing CI/CD system that leverages a hybrid cloud infrastructure based on Docker and Kubernetes to deal with increased capacity demand and load.
Qualifications
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A Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Math, or Physics from a top-tier college or university and at least 6 years of programming experience
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Proficiency with Python, Bash and/or Go (expertise in at least 2 of them).
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Thorough understanding of Linux fundamentals and C++ compiling/linking/loading process. We are primarily a Linux shop.
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Deep knowledge of git, git branching, and git workflows
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Experience with CI/CD frameworks such as Jenkins, Concourse, Travis, or CircleCI
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Experience with CMake, Conda, Gitlab/Github, and Docker/Kubernetes (preferred)
Financial experience is not required
Benefits
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Competitive salary and performance-based bonuses
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401(k) with company matching
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5 weeks of paid vacation per year plus 9 paid holidays
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Reimbursement for health and wellness expenses
Keywords:
Information Systems
Automation
Platform Engineer
Employment Type
Full-time
Number of Hires
1 - 10
Visa Sponsorship
No
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