Linux Systems Engineer

Our Linux Team ensures our trading servers work so we can trade. You will work in a highly-customized environment where proprietary tools and technology run. You will be expected to help build the pioneering tools to keep our systems best-in-class while enabling our technology evolution in a controlled way.

Who we are:

Optiver is a tech-driven trading firm and leading global market maker. As one of the oldest market making institutions, we are a trusted partner of 50+ exchanges across the globe. Our mission is to constantly improve the market by injecting liquidity, providing accurate pricing, increasing transparency and acting as a stabilizing force no matter the market conditions. With a focus on continuous improvement, we participate in the safeguarding of healthy and efficient markets for everyone who participates.

With major tech companies calling Austin home, the city is a natural complement to Optiver’s Chicago office, and a fitting location from which to pursue new and exciting opportunities in the US market. Located in “The Domain” neighborhood, Optiver Austin focuses on quantitative research, engineering initiatives and cutting-edge technology. Since 2021, the newly-christened “Silicon Hills” has also served as the location for our Delta-One trading team, which focuses on machine learning-based algorithmic trading.

What you’ll do:

Our Linux Systems Engineers are instrumental in ensuring that our production environment works optimally by deploying, maintaining, monitoring and operating a fleet of predominantly bare-metal UNIX servers.

• Tackle the life cycle of a server and build and deploy new solutions
• Performance monitoring and managing the system capacity
• Fix and analyze technical incidents, solve technical ad hoc problems
• Lead our charge to intelligent automation
• Be the connection between hardware and software
• Research new technologies and solutions, implement them or build better

Who you are:

• A Linux Engineer with a programming mindset to help build the right tools for our continual improvement
• A minimum of 5 years experience designing, deploying and supporting large scale Linux/Unix server environments
• Experience within a high-performance computer environment where the result matters
• Some focus on automating and solid Python scripting skills
• Infrastructure-as-Code using Ansible
• Knowledge of virtualization and networking, experience with cloud providers as AWS or Azure preferred
• A proactive approach to problem solving
• High attention to detail coupled with strong communication skills
• The ability to multitask and handle priorities in collaboration with other teams

What you’ll get:

• Work alongside best-in-class professionals from over 40 different countries.
• Performance based bonus structure that is unmatched anywhere in the industry. We combine our profits across desks, teams and offices into a global profit pool fostering a truly collaborative environment to work in.
• Ownership over initiatives that directly solve business problems.

Alongside this, you will get great other benefits, such as 25 paid vacation days and market holidays, fully-paid commuting expenses and health insurance, daily breakfast and lunch, training opportunities, 401(k) match up to 50% and charitable match opportunities, regular social events and clubs, and many more.