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.
Trading Infrastructure is a global organization of Engineers who architect, build and maintain our world-class infrastructure. From colo design/implementation, to optimizing our exchange connectivity, to building world class low latency 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:
- Develop deep technical expertise in your assigned product area and tech stack.
- Own production deployment, configuration, and release processes
- Drive performance, reliability, and operability through continuous improvement
- Build and maintain production tooling that supports deployment, orchestration, monitoring, and system diagnostics
- Define and maintain observability, SLI/SLOs, and performance metrics in partnership with product owners
- Leverage metrics and capacity planning to ensure scalability and uptime
- Collaborate across engineering teams to troubleshoot and resolve complex production incidents
- Lead and coordinate incident response, root cause analysis, and post-mortems
- Influence architecture and promote best practices by aligning with global SRE teams
- Document processes and procedures; provide mentorship and cross-training to peers.
- Actively manage operational risk for production changes
- Other duties as assigned or needed
Skills You'll Need:
- Degree in Computer Science, a related field, or equivalent professional experience
- At least 5+ years of relevant work experience in an IT ops role, such as DevOps, SRE, Linux Systems Engineering, or Network Engineering
- At least 5+ years of experience using systems programming language (e.g. C++)
- A rigorous, detail-oriented approach to operations
- Strong understanding of the Linux operating system, including network and system configuration, kernel internals, scheduling, performance tuning
- Strong understanding of networking concepts such as routing, multicast, LLDP, VLANs, and Ethernet
- A deep sense of ownership and desire to meet business priorities with urgency
- Ability to handle shared operational and periodic on-call duties
- Reliable and predictable availability
If you are currently a student or recent graduate, please see our Campus postings which offer both Summer and Full-Time opportunities.
Skills Required
- Degree in Computer Science or related field
- At least 5+ years of experience in IT ops role
- At least 5+ years of experience with systems programming
- Strong understanding of Linux operating system
- Strong understanding of networking concepts
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.
