Senior Linux Engineer - Low-Latency Market Data
United States,
New York
Permanent
Job ID: 2520
Job Description
[Up to c. $250k Base Salary + Discretionary Bonus | Hybrid Working]
Role Overview
We’re representing a global investment management firm hiring into the infrastructure team behind its trading, market data and research platforms. This is a hands-on Linux engineering role focused on low-latency co-location environments, RHEL-based market data infrastructure and third-line ownership across production systems. The role suits a senior Linux engineer with deep trading infrastructure experience: someone comfortable tuning servers for throughput and latency, troubleshooting packet-level issues, working with market data vendors and improving monitoring, automation and operational resilience...
Key Responsibilities
- Engineer, maintain and upgrade Linux infrastructure across co-located trading and market data environments
- Support RHEL-based market data systems used across latency-sensitive investment platforms
- Troubleshoot packet loss, feed gaps, data-quality issues and performance anomalies using packet captures
- Work with vendors, exchanges and internal teams on protocol changes, upgrades and production incidents
- Tune Linux systems for low-latency, high-throughput workloads, including kernel-bypass technologies
- Build automation and repeatable infrastructure workflows using Ansible, Terraform and scripting
- Improve monitoring and observability across infrastructure using Prometheus, Grafana and streaming data tooling
- Provide senior-level escalation support for production Linux and market data systems
What You’ll Bring…
- 8+ years’ Linux/Unix systems engineering experience, ideally across RHEL environments
- Strong experience supporting HFT, market data or co-location infrastructure
- Hands-on exposure to third-party feed handlers, market data capture systems or ticker plant environments
- Experience engaging directly with exchanges, market data vendors or infrastructure vendors
- Deep understanding of Linux performance tuning for low-latency and high-throughput systems
- Experience with kernel-bypass/low-latency networking technologies such as Exanic, Solarflare or equivalent
- Strong troubleshooting capability across packet captures, multicast, TCP/UDP and infrastructure performance
- Automation experience with tools such as Ansible, Terraform, Bash and Python
- Monitoring and instrumentation experience across Prometheus, Grafana or similar platforms
- Experience working with Git-based repositories and CI/CD workflows
- (Preferred) Cloud provisioning or hybrid infrastructure experience
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