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Hudson River Trading

Senior Systems Software Engineer

Hudson River Trading, Austin, Texas, us, 78716


The Systems Development team at Hudson River Trading builds and maintains the platform that is shared by all Systems teams to provision, monitor, and manage our server and network infrastructure. As a Systems Software Engineer, you will develop tools in Python with a focus on improving development experience for users of our configuration management system, SaltStack. This role offers a unique opportunity to impact a critical part of our existing and growing infrastructure. You’ll improve and integrate our existing tools and libraries across the platform, as well as design and build new ones to make trading, research, installation, and monitoring systems easier to manage and more reliable. Strong Python skills, development experience, and some experience with Unix are required.

Responsibilities

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

Integrating and extending configuration management modules (SaltStack and Ansible) and tools

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

Writing configuration management (SaltStack) code to build, deploy, and maintain new services

Helping to set the general direction for the Systems Python platform, representing Salt users internally

Qualifications

Required:

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

5+ 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 works well independently

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

Familiar with open-source software

Strong Python programming skills

Must be able to debug and analyze problems quickly

Must be able 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

Preferred:

Understanding of Debian operating system

Proven experience with SaltStack internals or platform ownership

Familiarity with systems configuration management and monitoring technologies

Familiarity with continuous integration and continuous deployment tools and processes

Understanding of networking protocols

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