Site Reliability Engineer
Jump Trading2 months ago
Singapore, SingaporeSenior
Responsibilities
- Own the production environment and drive performance, reliability, and operability improvements.
- Monitor and troubleshoot large-scale trading systems and exchange connectivity.
- Build and maintain DevOps tooling for configuration management, process management, deployment, monitoring, data collection, and analysis.
- Use firm-wide metrics to improve system scalability and performance.
- Collaborate across the technology organization to investigate and resolve complex system problems.
- Coordinate production changes and manage incidents with Risk Management and Operational Trading Support.
- 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 for production changes.
- Define and document processes and procedures.
- Mentor and cross-train other technical operations SREs.
- Participate in shared operational and periodic on-call duties.
Requirements
- Degree in Computer Science, a related field, or equivalent professional experience.
- At least 5 years of relevant IT operations experience in areas such as DevOps, SRE, Linux Systems Engineering, or Network Engineering.
- At least 3 years of experience with Python and shell scripting.
- Strong understanding of the Linux operating system, including networking and system configuration, kernel internals, scheduling, and performance tuning.
- Strong understanding of networking concepts including routing, multicast, LLDP, VLAN tagging, and Ethernet.
- Familiarity with C++ is helpful but not required.
- Detail-oriented and rigorous approach to operations, with a strong sense of ownership and urgency.
- Ability to maintain reliable availability and participate in shared operational and periodic on-call duties.
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.