Site Reliability Engineer
Jump Trading Group is committed to world class research. We empower exceptional talents in Mathematics, Physics, and Computer Science to seek scientific boundaries, push through them, and apply cutting edge research to global financial markets. Our culture is unique. Constant innovation requires fearlessness, creativity, intellectual honesty, and a relentless competitive streak. We believe in winning together and unlocking unique individual talent by incentivizing collaboration and mutual respect. At Jump, research outcomes drive more than superior risk adjusted returns. We design, develop, and deploy technologies that change our world, fund start-ups across industries, and partner with leading global research organizations and universities to solve problems.
Trading Infrastructure is a global organization of Engineers who architect, build and maintain our world-class infrastructure. From colocation design/implementation, to optimizing our exchange connectivity, to building world class low latent Wide Area Networks, we leverage research and automation to consistently adapt and innovate our infrastructure to scale and drive our trading and evolving business.
We are looking for exceptional talent that can work closely and collaborate effectively across multiple teams spread around the globe and continue to take our infrastructure to the next level.
What You'll Do:
- Work in a hybrid Systems Engineer / Software Developer capacity on Jump’s internal systems that manage the global infrastructure and colocation footprint
- Architect, build and maintain streaming monitoring tooling, high performance / real-time packet and flow analysis systems, configuration management and automation frameworks
- Take an ops-first approach, focusing on improving quality of the platforms for the wider team and always strive to identify improvements and opportunities for further make us more efficient
- Identify opportunities to make services more efficient and resilient by designing alerting and observability around team and business requirements
- Do deep-dive debugging sessions on low-level performance issues in complex software stacks
- Other duties as assigned or needed
Skills You’ll Need:
- 5+ years experience with Python, Go
- Strong experience with Linux
- Knowledge of streaming systems architecture and design
- Message/streaming queues (Apache Kafka, RabbitMQ, etc.)
- Working knowledge of Rust, C/C++
- Experience with big data / columnar style data stores (Bigtable, Clickhouse, Cassandra) and time series databases
- Experience working with version control and CI/CD systems.
- App deployment management and lifecycle (CI/CD, Kubernetes, pods/containers)
- Proven knowledge of working on infrastructure challenges in a reliability capacity
- Previous experience demonstrating strategic thinking skills and maturity in tackling complex problems, dealing with people, technology and processes
- Reliable and predictable availability
Bonus skills:
- Experience with Rust
- Prior exposure to Arista or Cisco hardware
- Routing protocol knowledge
- Prior network design knowledge
Benefits
- Discretionary bonus eligibility
- Medical, dental, and vision insurance
- HSA, FSA, and Dependent Care options
- Employer Paid Group Term Life and AD&D Insurance
- Voluntary Life & AD&D insurance
- Paid vacation plus paid holidays
- Retirement plan with employer match
- Paid parental leave
- Wellness Programs
Skills Required
- 5+ years of experience with Python and Go
- Strong experience with Linux
- Knowledge of streaming systems architecture and design
- Experience with message or streaming queues such as Apache Kafka or RabbitMQ
- Working knowledge of Rust, C, or C++
- Experience with big data or columnar data stores such as Bigtable, ClickHouse, or Cassandra
- Experience with time-series databases
- Experience with version control and CI/CD systems
- Experience with application deployment management and lifecycle, including Kubernetes, pods, or containers
- Proven knowledge of infrastructure challenges in a reliability capacity
- Strategic thinking, maturity, and ability to tackle complex people, technology, and process problems
- Reliable and predictable availability
- Experience with Rust
- Prior exposure to Arista or Cisco hardware
- Routing protocol knowledge
- Prior network design knowledge
Jump Trading Group Compensation & Benefits Highlights
The following summarizes recurring compensation and benefits themes identified from responses generated by popular LLMs to common candidate questions about Jump Trading Group and has not been reviewed or approved by Jump Trading Group.
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Career-Linked Recognition & Rewards — Pay is considered very competitive for revenue‑adjacent and technical roles, with strong total packages when team performance is solid. Compensation structures align outcomes closely with impact, creating high satisfaction on strong desks.
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Healthcare Strength — Health coverage is described as comprehensive across medical, dental, and vision, with wellness programs and employer‑paid life/AD&D also highlighted. These offerings are portrayed as robust and compare favorably with similar employers.
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Retirement Support — A 401(k) with employer match is repeatedly noted, with mentions of a pension as well. Together these indicate strong retirement backing relative to many employers.
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What We Do
Jump Trading Group is committed to world class research. We empower exceptional talents in Mathematics, Physics, and Computer Science to seek scientific boundaries, push through them, and apply cutting edge research to global financial markets. Our culture is unique. Constant innovation requires fearlessness, creativity, intellectual honesty, and a relentless competitive streak. We believe in winning together and unlocking unique individual talent by incenting collaboration and mutual respect. At Jump, research outcomes drive more than superior risk adjusted returns. We design, develop, and deploy technologies that change our world, fund start-ups across industries, and partner with leading global research organizations and universities to solve problems.
