IMC
Trading Engineer - Strategy
$175K–$225K
Chicago, United States · Full-time · Posted Jan 15, 2025
- Experience
- 3+ years; site reliability, systems engineering, or technical operations.
- Education
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or related field.
About the job
Supports IMC’s trading strategies by monitoring and improving production systems, automating operational work, and collaborating with traders, quants, and developers.
What you'll do
- Monitor trading systems, respond to market-driven incidents, and investigate root causes in distributed architectures.
- Build tools and automations to reduce manual processes and improve reliability.
- Collaborate across disciplines to improve trading systems, reliability, and performance.
What they ask for
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or a related field.
- 3+ years in site reliability, systems engineering, or technical operations.
- Python required; software-development mindset applied to operational automation.
- Hands-on experience managing production Linux and Kubernetes environments.
Nice to have
- Experience supporting high-performance or real-time systems.
- Familiarity with Prometheus, SQL/MongoDB, InfluxDB, Kafka, or similar technologies.
Pay
$175,000 — $225,000 USD (base salary)
Tools
Python, Linux, Kubernetes, Prometheus, SQL/MongoDB, InfluxDB, Kafka
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