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Campus Systems Engineer (Intern)

Jump Trading
🇬🇧London🇳🇱AmsterdamStudentInternPosted July 13, 2026

About the Role

This is an intensive 10-week systems engineering internship with Jump Trading's frontline technology operations teams responsible for managing, monitoring, and improving the real-time trading environment. You will work directly with experienced systems and network engineers, gaining broad technical and operational knowledge across the trading platform and technology stack.

  • Proactively monitor the overall health and performance of the trading platform
  • Analyze and troubleshoot complex system, software, and networking infrastructure issues
  • Design, implement and optimize network infrastructure for proprietary low latency trading applications at various data centers worldwide
  • Build automation to manage and improve the production trading environment
  • Work closely with risk management and trading teams to coordinate changes and manage incidents

Requirements

  • Major in Computer Science/Engineering, Information Systems, or related technical field
  • Experience working with Linux/UNIX OS including advanced commands and shell scripts
  • Practical working knowledge of python
  • Understanding of networking concepts such as routing, multicast, ethernet
  • A rigorous, detail-oriented approach to operations
  • Ability to operate and communicate clearly under pressure
  • Desire to work in a collaborative, team environment with a positive can do attitude
  • Reliable and predictable availability