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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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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