Systems Software Engineer

About the position

The Systems Development team builds and maintains the platform that is shared by all Systems teams to provision, monitor, and manage our server and network infrastructure. As a Systems Software Engineer, your main focus will be tool development in Python. You’ll improve and integrate our existing tools and libraries across the platform, as well as design and build new ones to make trading, research, installation, and monitoring systems easier to manage and more reliable. Strong Python skills and development experience are required, along with Unix experience. This role offers a unique opportunity to have a significant impact on a critical part of our existing and growing infrastructure.

Responsibilities

• Building and maintaining tools and software features to automate systems engineering workflows related to machine provisioning, monitoring, metrics collection, maintenance, and network configuration
• Troubleshooting software bugs on a fleet of Linux machines, including application, network, operating system, and/or kernel issues
• Writing configuration management code to build, deploy, and maintain new services
• Helping to set the general direction for the Systems Python platform

Requirements

• Strong Python programming
• Ability to debug and analyze problems quickly
• Ability to learn at a fast pace and apply new skills effectively
• Strong grasp of computer science fundamentals and software design patterns
• Solid understanding of Linux/UNIX operating systems

Nice-to-haves

• Understanding of Debian operating system
• Familiarity with systems configuration management and monitoring technologies
• Familiarity with continuous integration and continuous deployment tools and processes
• Understanding of networking protocols

Benefits

• Discretionary performance-based bonuses
• Competitive benefits package