HPC Systems Engineer
Jump Trading2 months ago
Mumbai, IndiaSenior
Responsibilities
- Design, implement, maintain, and support high-performance compute and storage systems.
- Implement and support performance-monitoring and fault-monitoring systems.
- Monitor compute, storage, and network performance.
- Build tooling to compile, package, install, and upgrade software and operating-system components at scale.
- Write code and testing infrastructure across new and existing codebases in multiple programming languages.
- Develop systems and user documentation.
- Participate in coordinated maintenance operations, including evenings and weekends.
- Collaborate with researchers to optimize their use of HPC infrastructure.
- Develop and monitor tools used to maintain production computing environments.
- Provide rotating operational support.
- Manage relationships with external vendors and travel domestically and internationally as needed.
- Follow company cybersecurity and IT policies and use only approved hardware and software.
Requirements
- At least 5 years of professional high-performance computing experience, including parallel filesystems and batch systems.
- At least 5 years of Linux systems administration experience.
- High proficiency in at least one programming or scripting language such as Go, Python, or C.
- Extensive experience designing, building, and maintaining complex, interdependent, distributed systems.
- Extensive experience profiling and debugging application stacks using debuggers and profilers.
- Experience with configuration-management tools such as SaltStack, Ansible, or Puppet.
- Strong root-cause-analysis orientation and reliable, predictable availability.
- Experience with high-performance network interconnects is a plus but not required.
Benefits
- Sydney office location.
- Rotating operational support and coordinated maintenance may include evenings and weekends.
- Domestic and international travel may be required for vendor meetings.
- Global infrastructure projects and collaboration with researchers and teams.
About Jump Trading
Jump Trading is a privately held quantitative and high-frequency trading firm that designs low-latency systems and models to trade global markets across asset classes, including equities, futures, options, and cryptocurrencies. It trades its own capital rather than selling software or services, and operates from Chicago with offices across North America, Europe, and Asia; the firm was founded in 1999. Affiliates include Jump Crypto for digital assets and the venture arm Jump Capital.