Systems Engineer, Research & Development

Hudson River Trading (HRT) is looking for Systems Engineers to join our growing Research & Development team. This team builds and maintains an exceptionally large and growing distributed compute cluster, a petabyte-scale storage layer, operating systems, automation software, and development tools. Much of our hardware layer and operating system layer reflect the state-of-the-art at any given time.

As a full-time Systems Engineer, you’ll work on projects that impact our live trading and research and allow them to run worldwide 24/7. A typical day could include scaling and keeping our HPC environment running smoothly or designing and building services to improve HRT’s research environment, but responsibilities are broad! Your day could also consist of hardware and software installation and configuration, remote administration, monitoring, new hardware and software testing, automation and tool development, and performance tuning. 

Responsibilities

• Plan/execute technical projects to make our Linux trading systems (hardware, network, OS, etc) faster, adaptable, and more maintainable
• Manage and optimize large scale distributed compute/HPC clusters
• Automate/troubleshoot a broad range of technical infrastructure 
• Troubleshoot hardware and software issues
• Operating system installation and upgrading
• Performance testing and tuning
• Scripting to automate repetitive tasks
• Working with vendors to resolve issues

Profile

• You enjoy tinkering with technology in your spare time
• Ability to manage time efficiently
• Can work independently and as a team player
• Exceptional communication skills - this role will require cross-collaboration with various stakeholders across HRT
• You are resourceful, have a sense of urgency, and are motivated to make things better and to always be learning. You don’t only want to just get the job done, you always want to deliver the highest quality work. 
• 5+ years of relevant experience

Qualifications

• Expertise in installation, configuration, and troubleshooting of Linux systems
• Comfortable using Linux/UNIX command line tools
• Experience with configuration management tools
• Python or Shell scripting experience
• Attention to detail needed to manage and debug production services
• Strong communication and organization
• Ability to context switch to work on several projects at once 
• Experience and knowledge of Debian/Ubuntu is a plus