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Edgestream Partners, L.P.

Infrastructure Engineer

Edgestream Partners, L.P., Princeton, New Jersey, us, 08543


About UsEdgestream Partners is a tight-knit team of scientists, engineers, and business professionals who devote our talents to developing quantitative models of financial markets and using them to trade systematically around the world and around the clock.

Edgestream’s culture has more in common with research laboratories and technology startups than with traditional finance. We prize curiosity, creativity, diligence, and intellectual honesty. We focus on the long term, working together to build elegant and general systems that endure and scale as we grow. And we incentivize our employees to cooperate and share ideas, because we know that compounding our efforts magnifies our achievements. The result is a company where smart, dedicated effort can have a major impact.

We’ve been in the hedge fund business since 2003, and we’re still growing. We’re looking for talented and driven people who can grow with us in the years ahead.

About the JobAt Edgestream, information systems are a critical element of our global trading platform. We are seeking a highly effective infrastructure systems generalist with 5+ years of experience designing, implementing, and maintaining heterogeneous compute environments, a passion for performance and automation, and a desire to create high-performance systems in a collaborative environment. Our systems administrators work with compute, networking, storage, and automation, supporting our production, research, and back-office teams. Be a big part of a small high-impact team working on the forefront of quantitative trading and machine learning.

Responsibilities:

Collaborate on continuous improvements to our global trading platform

Tune, update, and maintain our research compute cluster

Contribute code to our infrastructure automation code repository

Own the deployment pipeline for OS level changes to our dev, staging, and production systems

Design, implement, and maintain highly secure, auditable, and elegant technology solutions to complex, multi-domain problems

Identify and eliminate security vulnerabilities in the infrastructure and software stack, and work closely with trading operations and production development teams to evaluate potential problems and solutions

Collaborate with research and production developers on container environment specifications and deployments

Help maintain and support our co-located datacenters in NYC and Chicago, including some hands-on support

Maintain and improve other aspects of technology including MACs, business systems, end-user support for a small number of endpoints

Qualifications:

5+ years of experience as a systems engineer in high-performance compute environments (RHEL, Slurm)

Datacenter and WAN network engineering experience including BGP (Arista)

High performance storage array experience (Pure Flashblade, Ceph)

Proficiency with at least one programming language (Python, Bash, etc.)

Proficiency with imperative configuration management solutions (We use Ansible)

Experience with virtualization and containerization (Singularity, Nix, OVirt, etc.)

Experience working with git and Gitlab-type code management solutions

Expertise in creating repeatable, reliable, scalable systems architectures, with high availability, fault tolerance, performance tuning, monitoring, and statistics/metrics collection

Must be comfortable working with mission critical and sensitive systems, with a sense of urgency appropriate to the responsibilities

Excellent verbal and written communications

Some of the benefits of working at Edgestream:

Competitive salary, bonus, and incentive compensation based on overall company performance.

Fantastic resources, accumulated over decades, for turning ideas into reality.

Comprehensive, first-class benefits (including excellent medical and dental insurance, 401(k), HRA, FSA, life insurance, daily catered lunch, and an onsite gym).

For qualified employees, the opportunity to invest in our funds.

Contact InfoE-mail:

careers@edgestreamlp.com .

Legal disclaimer: In compliance with federal law, all persons hired will be required to verify identity and eligibility to work in the United States and to complete the required employment eligibility verification document form upon hire.

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