Site Reliability Engineer | Production Infrastructure

As a Site Reliability Engineer on Jump Trading's Production Infrastructure team, you own the production environment for a global trading operation. You architect, build, and maintain world-class infrastructure that powers the trading platform, working across monitoring, deployment, configuration management, and automation to ensure reliability and performance at scale.

What you'll do

• Own the production environment, driving performance, reliability, and operability through continuous improvement
• Proactively monitor and troubleshoot large-scale trading systems and exchange connectivity
• Build and maintain the DevOps toolkit for the production trading system, including configuration management, process management, deployment, monitoring, data collection, and analysis
• Leverage firm-wide metrics to improve scalability and system performance
• Collaborate across the technology organization to analyze and troubleshoot complex system problems
• Work closely with Risk Management and Operational Trading Support teams to coordinate changes and manage incidents
• Interact directly with traders to communicate technology changes, manage incidents, and troubleshoot problems
• Work with the Clearing team to reconcile trades and position breaks
• Assess and manage operational risk of changes into the production environment
• Define and document processes and procedures
• Provide mentorship and cross-training to other technical operations SREs

What you bring

• A degree in Computer Science, a related field, or equivalent professional experience
• At least 5+ years of relevant work experience in an IT ops role such as DevOps, SRE, Linux Systems Engineering, or Network Engineering
• At least 3+ years of experience with Python and shell scripting
• A rigorous, detail-oriented approach to operations
• Strong understanding of the Linux operating system, including network and system configuration, kernel internals, scheduling, and performance tuning
• Strong understanding of networking concepts such as routing, multicast, LLDP, VLAN tagging, and Ethernet
• A deep sense of ownership and urgency
• Ability to handle shared operational and periodic on-call duties
• Reliable and predictable availability

Nice to have

• Familiarity with C++

About Jump Trading

Jump Trading Group is a research-driven firm that empowers exceptional talent in Mathematics, Physics, and Computer Science to push scientific boundaries and apply cutting-edge research to global financial markets. The firm designs, develops, and deploys technologies that change the world, funds start-ups across industries, and partners with leading research organizations and universities.