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Senior Linux Engineer

Selby Jennings
Chicago, IL Full Time
POSTED ON 1/14/2025 CLOSED ON 4/4/2025

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Senior Linux Engineer

Salary : 160,000-250,000 base salary with annual discretionary bonus

A proprietary trading firm is looking to bring on a Senior Linux Engineer to their global team.

The Linux Engineer will be responsible for :

  • Design, Build, and maintain linux systems on which the firms trading infrastructure runs on.
  • Optimize linux systems to run with the lowest possible latency, including performance tuning, and kernel tuning.
  • Contribute to on-going globalization efforts of the firms Linux systems including reducing redundancies, improving infrastructure bottlenecks, and improving automation stacks.
  • Collaborate closely with network, hardware, and software development teams.

The Linux Engineer should have the following qualifications :

  • Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or equivalent
  • Python development
  • Expertise in Kernel development, performance optimization, and kernel tuning.
  • Experience working in latency sensitive environments
  • High Performance Computing, and Kubernetes experience a major plus.
  • This role must sit in the firms Chicago office working in a hybrid model of 3 days per week in office, 2 days remote.

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