Senior Linux Engineer
DRWAbout the Role
The Linux Engineering Team is responsible for providing a highly performant, scalable, and stable infrastructure that enables trading desks, developers, and internal customers to run their applications as efficiently and deterministically as possible.
- Collaborating with a global Linux Engineering team to coordinate work, engineering projects, changes, and on-call schedules
- Serving as a liaison between the Linux Engineering team and various trading desks and teams
- Configuring, deploying and maintaining DRW's Linux environments in a declarative and repeatable manner
- Actively monitoring the health of the entire Linux server environment and performing day-to-day troubleshooting
- Application packaging and maintenance of software repositories
- Automating repetitive system administration tasks
- Evaluating and recommending new hardware and software technologies or solutions
Requirements
- Experience working with configuration management tools, ideally Ansible, Chef, or Puppet
- Scripting and automation experience with one or more of the following: Bash, Python, or another high-level programming language
- Extensive Linux support and engineering experience in a large (10,000+ server) high availability environment
- Strong knowledge of Red Hat-based and Debian-based platforms (CentOS, Rocky, Alma, Oracle, Ubuntu)
- Solid understanding of protocols such as Kerberos, DNS, and DHCP, and applications like Kubernetes, VMware, and Openstack
- Previous experience tuning and debugging Linux systems for high performance, low latency trading applications
- A firm understanding of IP networking, routing, and multicast traffic
- Internally motivated people who take ownership of issues and projects, and consistently follow through
- Strong belief in automation, consistency, scalability, and simple design
What You'll Get
- $200k–$250k base salary
- Group medical, pharmacy, dental and vision insurance
- 401k (with discretionary employer match)
- Short and long-term disability insurance
- Life and AD&D insurance
- Health savings accounts
- Flexible spending accounts