Our Linux engineering team ensures that our critical trading servers and infrastructure operate efficiently and reliably across the globe. In a highly customized, bare-metal environment powered by proprietary tools and technology, you’ll help design and implement cutting-edge solutions that enable scalable technological evolution while maintaining peak performance together with speed and precision.
Requirements
- Designing, deploying, and managing the lifecycle of a large-scale fleet of Linux servers across multiple data centers, ensuring reliability, performance, and scalability.
- Architecting, building, and maintaining systems that drive efficiency and support Optiver’s evolving technology stack.
- Ensuring system reliability by swiftly resolving incidents and optimizing performance to meet trading demands, even during extreme market conditions.
- Researching and implementing new technologies or building enhanced in-house solutions to improve performance and system stability.
- Bridging the gap between hardware and software to ensure seamless interaction and integration.
- Optimizing system and kernel performance, including CPU affinity, NUMA balancing, HugePages, IRQ tuning, and other low-level configurations.
- Developing and maintaining automation tools using Python to enhance system efficiency.
- Monitoring system health and performance using observability tools such as Prometheus, Grafana, and Alertmanager.
- Managing system provisioning and infrastructure deployment using Infrastructure-as-Code tools like Ansible and/or Terraform.
- Joining our rotating support and on-call roster to facilitate global trading operations.
Benefits
- Performance-based bonus structure
- 25 paid vacation days in the first year, increasing to 30 from the second year onwards
- Training opportunities
- Discounts on health insurance
- Fully paid first-class commuting expenses
- Extensive office perks
