Systems Engineer | Production Engineering (Weekend Warrior)
About this role
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.
Our Production Engineering team is based in Chicago, New York, London, Singapore and Sydney with some members in smaller offices or fully remote. We operate as one global team to support Jump’s infrastructure including multiple world-leading High-Performance 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 open-source software. As a Systems Engineer, you'll 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 cutting-edge technologies and getting their hands dirty to solve challenging technical problems.
As a Systems Engineering Weekend Warrior, you will be working a modified 4- or 5-day work week that includes Saturday and Sunday to help support our infrastructure on a full-time 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 12-hour shifts that overlap with colleagues in the other time zone (US & APAC). You'll have two days off during the week, and on workdays, you'll 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, Jump’s 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 You'll 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)
- Work a modified work week, which includes the weekends
Skills You'll 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 root-cause analysis
- Reliable and predictable availability
Company at a glance
For more than 25 years, Jump Trading has been home to people who see trading as the most fascinating problem in the world and want to solve it from every angle.
Headquartered in Chicago with 13 offices across 8 countries, we operate across asset classes, time zones, and horizons. If it trades, we want to trade it.
We are traders, engineers, and researchers working side by side to build the systems that move global markets. Our culture is built on curiosity, precision, and relentless iteration. We care deeply about impact, collaboration, and solving problems few ever get to see.
At Jump Trading, AI and machine learning are central to how we trade and build. We design and deploy advanced models, infrastructure, and tools to operate at scale in high-stakes, adversarial environments. From low-latency systems to cutting-edge research, we push the boundaries of what is possible.
We are also committed to the next generation of talent. Our student programs, from internships to our fully funded PhD Fellowships, provide hands-on experience, mentorship, and opportunities to do meaningful work. We support students at leading conferences worldwide and invite them to work with our teams on real-world challenges.
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