Site Reliability Engineer | Linux Platform Development | Experienced Hire

Overview

As a member of our Linux Platform Development team, you’ll spend your day building the infrastructure that powers Susquehanna’s primary trading platforms. You will be given the design freedom to push our environment to new heights as you build complex infrastructure to meet the challenges of maximum performance and rapidly expanding scalability.

In this role, you will

• Contribute to all phases of infrastructure growth, from initial requirements through final testing and implementation
• Focus on extending and evolving the entire technical stack to build a stable, scalable, and optimized environment with minimal risk
• As a Specialist on this team, you will engage directly with internal lines of business

What you can expect from us:

• Real Impact : By integrating sophisticated coding techniques with innovative engineering ideas, we design and optimize systems that can process massive amounts of data while still ensuring high performance and stability. You’ll see how your contributions towards developing and supporting leading-edge hardware and software technologies make a firm-wide impact that makes us all smarter, faster, and better.
• Collaboration : You will partner closely with our Strategy Developers and Quantitative Researchers to translate complex trading problems into scalable and highly performant hardware solutions.
• Growth : For many of our roles, we don’t expect you to have prior industry experience in proprietary trading or financial services to succeed at Susquehanna International Group. We’re looking for people who are naturally curious, relentless problem solvers, and have the desire to continuously innovate, learn, and grow.
• Benefits : Susquehanna offers a wide array of competitive employee perks & benefits. 

What we’re looking for

• A Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Information Systems or a related discipline
• 5+ years of progressive experience building Linux based platforms 
• Familiarity with kernel-level and I/O subsystem tweaks and limit controls and tools such as vmstat, strace, tcpdump, and netstat
• Recent hands on experience with automation in Python or other tools (Puppet, Ansible, or Chef)

About Susquehanna Susquehanna is a global quantitative trading firm founded by a group of friends who share a passion for game theory and probabilistic thinking. We have incorporated this approach into our culture, where you will find relentless problem solvers within each of our core disciplines: Trading, Technology, and Quantitative Research. From offices around the world, our employees collaborate to make optimal decisions and are driven by the desire to achieve winning results together. 

What we do We are experts in trading essentially all listed financial products and asset classes, with a focus on derivatives trading. Through market making and market taking, we handle millions of trading transactions around the world every day, providing liquidity and ensuring competitive prices for buyers and sellers. While our presence in the market is broad, our trading desks are highly specialized, allowing for a deep understanding of unique drivers of each asset class.

Susquehanna does not accept unsolicited resumes from recruiters or search firms. Any resume or referral submitted in the absence of a signed agreement will become the property of SIG and no fee will be paid.

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