Hudson River Trading
Junior Trading Systems Engineer
$120K–$160K
Chicago, Illinois, United States +4 · Full-time · Posted Jul 6, 2026
- Location
- Chicago, Illinois, United States
Dublin, Ireland
London, United Kingdom
New York, NY, United States
All Offices - Experience
- 2+ years of relevant Linux systems management experience.
About the job
Manages and improves HRT’s global Linux-based trading infrastructure, supporting reliable, high-performance, low-latency production trading systems.
What you'll do
- Plan and execute infrastructure projects; troubleshoot hardware and software issues and implement system installations and upgrades.
- Deploy, configure, and test applications; improve documentation and reduce technical debt.
- Benchmark trading-stack performance and participate in an on-call rotation covering trading hours and weekends as needed.
What they ask for
- 2+ years of relevant experience managing Linux systems, including system administration and TCP/IP troubleshooting.
- Familiarity with installing and configuring Linux systems from hardware and networking through kernel and applications.
- Proven programming experience building and explaining working software; basic bash scripting experience.
- Project management skills; experience using JIRA; strong cross-functional communication and organization skills.
Nice to have
- Knowledge of Debian/Ubuntu and configuration management tools such as SaltStack, Puppet, Ansible, Chef, or CFEngine.
- Production systems experience and some AWS or GCP cloud experience.
Pay
120,000 to 160,000 USD per year (base salary)
Tools
Linux, TCP/IP, Debian/Ubuntu, SaltStack, Puppet, Ansible, Chef, CFEngine
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