Linux Engineer
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About the Position
We are looking for Linux Engineers to join the team that maintains the critical infrastructure underlying the rest of Jane Streets technology. Our group includes hardworking Systems Engineers Administrators and Programmers tasked with maintaining and improving the platform that powers Jane Streets production trading systems. Our mix of inhouse and open source software allows you to investigate and innovate at every level. On any given day you could be debugging kernel performance developing management tools or resolving production issues in real time. Diving into tricky systems problems is our specialty.
Deployment automation scalable configuration management and obsessive monitoring are the focus of some of our ongoing projects. We automate as much of our work as we can but not because were lazy. We find that automation reduces our error rate and overall workload plus we think its fun.
Working in our group provides opportunities for involvement with almost every other facet of the company. We work directly with colleagues in trading technology and operations to build and maintain systems with a firmwide scope. Using feedback from other groups and our custom monitoring tools we strive to resolve production issues quickly perform comprehensive rootcause analyses and integrate longterm fixes in a clean and robust way.
We dont expect you to come in with deep experience were happy to hire smart problem solvers and teach them what they need to know. Youll train alongside our more seasoned team members in a handson capacity learning how we make tangible and immediate improvements to our infrastructure every day.
About You
- Bachelors degree in Computer Science Software Engineering or other technical discipline or equivalent experience
- Experience managing/troubleshooting Linux systems in a home work or school environment
- Exposure to Linux environments through past experience in either software development IT operations (Helpdesk Technical Support DevOps etc. or a similar field
- Interested in systems programming and administration and a desire to expand these skills
- Willing to learn OCaml our programming language of choice (no prior experience with OCaml is required though)
- Able to analyze and deconstruct technical problems
- Knowledgeable about operating system fundamentals especially Linux
- Confident with the Unix command line and basic shell scripting
- Has a basic understanding of network protocols and can perform basic troubleshooting
- Comfortable with fundamental programming concepts
- Practical experience with modern Linux systems and systems programming concepts (e.g. C sockets virtual memory process life cycle)
- Intermediate/advanced knowledge of troubleshooting tools and techniques (e.g. gdb perf DTrace or SystemTap) is a plus
- Intermediate/advanced programming experience in any language is a plus
- Intending to start fulltime employment in 2025
- Fluency in English required
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Employment Type
Full Time
