Systems Software Engineer, Entry Level

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Job Summary:

Hudson River Trading is a company that brings a scientific approach to trading financial products. As a Systems Software Engineer, you will focus on tool development in Python, improving and integrating existing tools and libraries across the platform to facilitate easier management and reliability of trading, research, installation, and monitoring systems.

Responsibilities:

• Building and maintaining tools and software features to automate systems engineering workflows related to machine provisioning, monitoring, metrics collection, maintenance, and network configuration

• Troubleshooting software bugs on a fleet of Linux machines, including application, network, operating system, and/or kernel issues

• Writing configuration management code to build, deploy, and maintain new services

• Helping to set the general direction for the Systems Python platform

Qualifications:

Required:

• Strong Python programming

• Ability to debug and analyze problems quickly

• Ability to learn at a fast pace and apply new skills effectively

• Strong grasp of computer science fundamentals and software design patterns

• Solid understanding of Linux/UNIX operating systems

• BS and/or MS in computer science or a related field

• 2+ years of relevant experience, including programming in Python

• Experience using automation to solve problems and improve processes efficiently

• Acts effectively as a team player but also work well independently

• Skilled at juggling multiple tasks while maintaining a high level of attention to detail

• Familiar with open-source software

Preferred:

• Understanding of Debian operating system

• Familiarity with systems configuration management and monitoring technologies

• Familiarity with continuous integration and continuous deployment tools and processes

• Understanding of networking protocols

Company:

Hudson River Trading opertes as a multi-asset class quantitative trading firm. Founded in 2002, headquartered in New York, New York, USA, team size 501-1000 employees, currently Late Stage. Hudson River Trading has a track record of offering H1B sponsorships.