Join our Linux engineering team to design and implement cutting-edge solutions for our trading servers and infrastructure. You'll work with proprietary tools and technology to ensure reliability, performance, and scalability. The team ensures that our critical trading servers and infrastructure operate efficiently and reliably across the globe.
Requirements
- Designing, deploying, and managing the lifecycle of a large-scale fleet of Linux servers across multiple data centers
- 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
- 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
- A performance-based bonus structure, enabling all of our employees to benefit from our global profit pool
- The opportunity to work alongside best-in-class professionals from over 50 different countries
- 25 paid vacation days in your first year, increasing to 30 from your second year onwards
- Training opportunities, discounts on health insurance, and fully paid first-class commuting expenses
- Extensive office perks, including breakfast, lunch and dinner, world-class barista coffee, in-house physio and chair massages, organized sports and leisure activities, and Friday afternoon drinks
- Training and continuous learning opportunities, including access to conferences and tech events
