Production Engineer Weekend warrior
Production Engineer Weekend warrior
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Job Description
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 startups across industries and partner with leading global research organizations and universities to solve problems.
Our Production Engineering team is based in Chicago New York London and Singapore with some members in smaller offices or fully remote. We operate as one global team to support Jumps infrastructure including multiple worldleading HighPerformance Computing (HPC) environments and a diverse global trading infrastructure that operates across many global financial markets. The team is responsible for everything from low level infrastructure to applications making heavy use of both internally developed and opensource software.As a Production Engineer youll have the opportunity to showcase your skills as a deeply technical resource with exceptional troubleshooting skills when required. We are looking for someone who loves learning new cuttingedge technologies and getting their hands dirty to solve challenging technical problems.
As a Production Engineering Weekend Warrior you will be working a modified 4 or 5day work week that includes Saturday and Sunday to help support our infrastructure on a fulltime basis. You will work the equivalent of a third of the weekends in a year (on a schedule agreed with two fellow weekend shift colleagues in your region). During on weekends you will work 12hour shifts that overlap with colleagues in the other time zone (US & APAC). Youll have two days off during the week and on workdays youll work flexible hours with the rest of the Jump Production Engineering team.Worth noting other teams have a similar setup so you will join a virtual weekend warrior team online all weekend in your time zone. Also Jumps systems are heavily automated so most of your time will be focused on project work but you will be available for immediate troubleshooting and support as required.
What Youll Do:
- Work on global projects across a wide range of infrastructure
- Manage and resolve technical issues with a high degree of technical complexity
- Develop tools that will help in diagnosing resolving and triaging difficult problems
- Other duties as assigned or required (we pride ourselves on avoiding siloing so this will include widely different engineering projects
- Worka modified work week which includes the weekends
Skills Youll Need:
- An insatiable desire to learn
- Expert Linux knowledge
- Some Networking knowledge and a willingness to learn more
- Scripting competence with either Go or Python (and a willing to learn both)
- Extensive experience profiling and debugging application stacks
- Extensive experience designing building and maintaining complicated systems
- Experience with system configuration management tools (Salt Puppet Ansible etc.
- A compulsion to perform rootcause analysis
- Reliable and predictable availability
Benefits
Discretionary bonus eligibilityMedical 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
Employment Type
Full Time
