Linux Engineer

Senior Linux Engineer

Salary: 160,000-250,000 base salary with annual discretionary bonus

A proprietary trading firm is looking to bring on a Senior Linux Engineer to their global team.

The Linux Engineer will be responsible for:

• Design, Build, and maintain Linux systems on which the firms trading infrastructure runs on.
• Optimise Linux systems to run with the lowest possible latency, including performance tuning, and kernel tuning.
• Contribute to on-going globalisation efforts of the firms Linux systems including reducing redundancies, improving infrastructure bottlenecks, and improving automation stacks.
• Collaborate closely with network, hardware, and software development teams.

The Linux Engineer should have the following qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or equivalent
• Python development
• Expertise in Kernel development, performance optimisation, and kernel tuning.
• Experience working in latency sensitive environments
• High Performance Computing, and Kubernetes experience a major plus.

This role must sit in the firms Chicago office working in a hybrid model of 3 days per week in office, 2 days remote.