Linux Engineer
Jane Street14 days ago
Responsibilities
- Build and maintain critical Linux infrastructure underlying the firm’s technology and production trading systems.
- Complete a mentored project focused on Linux systems and software engineering.
- Investigate performance issues across application, operating system, and hardware layers.
- Fix kernel bugs and troubleshoot firmware or physical hardware issues.
- Build automation for previously manual workflows.
- Participate in real-time operational work, production issue resolution, and comprehensive root-cause analyses.
Requirements
- Knowledge of operating system fundamentals and computer architecture.
- Experience with systems programming concepts such as sockets, virtual memory, and the process life cycle.
- Basic understanding of network protocols.
- Comfort using the Linux command line.
- Ability to troubleshoot Linux systems, processes, logs, and overall system health.
- Ability and willingness to solve problems by writing robust code in any language.
- Intellectual curiosity, collaboration, eagerness to learn, humility, and strong communication skills.
Benefits
- Internship program with mentorship from full-time employees.
- Work on real-world projects delivering value to Jane Street.
- Classes alongside project work and real-time operational experience.
- Educational experience focused on Linux systems and software engineering.
About Jane Street
Jane Street is a quantitative trading firm with offices in New York, London, Hong Kong, Singapore, and Amsterdam. We are always recruiting top candidates and we invest heavily in teaching and training. The environment at Jane Street is open, informal, intellectual, and fun. People grow into long careers here because there are always new and interesting problems to solve, systems to build, and theories to test. More than twenty years after our founding, it still feels like we’re just getting started. Jane Street does not offer any services to individual investors: https://www.janestreet.com/fraud-and-impersonation-warnings/