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Posted July 6, 2026

Trading Systems Engineer

Hudson River Trading

Category:Infrastructure & IT

Location:AustinBoulderChicagoDublinLondonNew YorkSingapore

Seniority
Senior
Employment type
Full-time
Salary (per year)
$150k–$250k
Bonus
Yes

Requirements

  • 7+ years of relevant experience supporting a live production environment (especially trading)
  • Expert in installing, configuring, and troubleshooting Linux systems, from hardware and networking to kernel to applications
  • Project Management Skills
  • Significant experience managing and debugging production trading services
  • Strong cross-functional communication and organization skills
  • Proven ability to manage assigned projects efficiently, ideally using JIRA

About the role

Hudson River Trading (HRT) is seeking a Trading Systems Engineer to join our growing Trading Systems Infrastructure team. This team designs, builds, and maintains the infrastructure that powers our global trading, and is responsible for ensuring optimal performance and uptime of the ultra low-latency operating systems, automation software, and development tools that allow our trading strategies to run worldwide 24/7.

As a Trading Systems Engineer, you’ll work on projects focusing on our real-time production trading environment and tackle problems that require high availability, high throughput, and ultra low-latency solutions. The ideal candidate possesses a passion for coding and automation, is eager to learn new skills to help build an elegant stack, and has the ability to handle challenging technical issues within a dynamic and fast-paced environment.

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Responsibilities

  • Design, manage, automate, and optimize worldwide Linux-based trading infrastructure by planning and executing complex technical projects and tasks
  • Troubleshoot hardware and software issues across the stack
  • Design and implement system installations and upgrades
  • Deploy, configure, and test internal and external applications
  • Remain unfazed by production-critical issues, resolving them quickly and efficiently
  • Benchmark and tune the performance of the trading stack
  • Hold vendors accountable on performance and reliability issues, with the ability to confidently go toe-to-toe with a vendor's Tier 2 engineering team during an escalation
  • Join an on-call rotation schedule to cover trading hours and weekend shifts, as needed

What you'll get

  • $150k–$250k base salary
  • medical
  • dental
  • vision
  • basic life insurance
  • enrollment in our company’s retirement savings plans
  • sick and parental leave
  • 20 vacation days and 10 paid holidays in the US

Skills

Linux · Debian/Ubuntu · SaltStack · Puppet · Ansible · Chef · CFEngine · Python · bash · JIRA · AWS · GCP