Systems Engineer - Austin, United States - Hudson River Trading

Description

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 High-Performance Computing (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 research 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 including configuration management, monitoring, metrics, and logging

Troubleshoot hardware and software issues throughout the stack, from kernel to HPC scheduler

Performance testing and tuning

Scripting to automate repetitive tasks

Working with vendors and upstream 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, demonstrating leadership in a flat organization

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 and tuning kernel performance

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 dpkg is a plus

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