Security Systems Engineer — Python/Go Tooling

Fantastic opportunity for talented programmers at one of the world’s top algorithmic trading firms in their London office. They make the world’s markets more financially efficient using smart algorithms. To get the job done, they hire some of the smartest computer scientists in the world to develop both their low latency trading platform and their massive distributed research platform.

The Systems Development team builds and maintains the platform that is shared by all Systems teams to provision, monitor, and manage the server and network infrastructure. As a Systems Software Engineer with a focus on Security, your main focus will be tool development in Python and Go to engineer creative solutions to security challenges. You’ll improve and integrate existing tools and libraries across the platform, as well as design and build new ones to make trading, research, installation, and monitoring systems easier to manage, more secure, and more reliable.

Strong Python skills and development experience are required, along with Unix experience and interest in the security space. This role offers a unique opportunity to make a significant impact on a critical part of existing and growing infrastructure.

Your responsibilities will vary, but a typical day in the life might look like:

• Building and maintaining tools and software features to automate systems engineering workflows related to secure machine provisioning, monitoring, metrics collection, maintenance, secrets management, and network configuration.
• Troubleshooting software bugs on a fleet of Linux machines, including application, network, operating system, and/or kernel issues.
• Writing configuration management code to build, deploy, and maintain new services.
• Helping to set the general direction for the Systems Python platform.
• Working across the engineering teams to help create solutions to a variety of security challenges.

Qualifications

• Strong Python programming.
• Ability to debug and analyze problems quickly.
• Ability to learn at a fast pace and apply new skills effectively.
• Strong grasp of computer science fundamentals and software design patterns.
• Solid understanding of Linux/UNIX operating systems.
• Interest in and awareness of security best practices.

Preferred

• Understanding of Debian operating system.
• Familiarity with systems configuration management and monitoring technologies.
• Familiarity with continuous integration and continuous deployment tools and processes.
• Understanding of networking protocols.

Profile

• BS and/or MS in computer science or a related field.
• 2+ years of relevant experience, including programming in Python.
• Experience using automation to solve problems and improve process efficiency.
• Acts effectively as a team player, but also works well independently.
• Skilled at juggling multiple tasks while maintaining meticulous attention to detail.
• Familiarity with open-source software.

This fund brings a scientific approach to trading financial products. They’ve built one of the world’s most sophisticated computing environments for research and development, and their researchers are at the forefront of innovation in the world of algorithmic trading. Colleagues come from all sorts of backgrounds: mathematics, computer science, statistics, physics, and engineering. A community of self-starters who are motivated by the excitement of being at the cutting edge of automated trading, and their culture celebrates great ideas whether they come from veterans or new hires.

Seem like something you might be interested in? The goal is to find the best people and bring them together to do great work in a place where everyone is valued. They’re proud of their diverse staff; with offices all over the globe they benefit from varied and unique perspectives. This is an equal opportunity employer; so whoever you are they’d love to get to know you.