Systems Engineer - Data Systems & Platforms

Hudson River Trading (HRT) is looking for a Systems Engineer to join our growing Research & Development team. This team builds and maintains an exceptionally large and growing distributed compute cluster, a petabyte-scale storage layer, operating systems, automation software, and development tools. Much of our hardware layer and operating system layer reflect the state-of-the-art at any given time. We are looking for an experienced SRE with solid Linux systems engineering skills and exposure to data platforms. You'll be at the forefront of designing, building, and maintaining HRT's diverse production database infrastructure, focusing on performance, scalability, and reliability. This is a job for an engineer looking to make a real difference working with a small, focused team of like-minded database and systems engineers. Responsibilities Design, build, and maintain HRT's SQL and NoSQL database infrastructure, supporting a globally distributed trading infrastructure and extending to large-scale research Configure and scale PostgreSQL and MySQL servers for trade-critical, real-time workflows Investigate and improve performance of PostgreSQL and MySQL queries and supporting infrastructure (Debian Linux) Transform the metrics and alerting landscape with Prometheus, VictoriaMetrics, and Grafana Architect and deploy Redis based key/value stores for current and future use-cases Engineer and apply infrastructure-as-code tools and services (Salt, […]

Hudson River Trading is a multi-asset class quantitative trading firm that provides liquidity on global markets and directly to our clients. We have built one of the world's most advanced computing environments for research and development, modeling, and risk management, and are at the forefront of technical innovation for financial markets everywhere. We are thoughtful market leaders, committed to the health and longevity of global markets.