Site Reliability Engineer

Jump Trading Group is committed to world class research. We empower exceptional talents in Mathematics, Physics, and Computer Science to seek scientific boundaries, push through them, and apply cutting edge research to global financial markets. Our culture is unique. Constant innovation requires fearlessness, creativity, intellectual honesty, and a relentless competitive streak. We believe in winning together and unlocking unique individual talent by incenting collaboration and mutual respect. At Jump, research outcomes drive more than superior risk adjusted returns. We design, develop, and deploy technologies that change our world, fund start-ups across industries, and partner with leading global research organizations and universities to solve problems.

Trading Infrastructure is a global organization of Engineers who architect, build and maintain our world-class infrastructure. From colo design/implementation, to optimizing our exchange connectivity, to building world class low latency Wide Area Networks, we leverage research and automation to consistently adapt and innovate our infrastructure to scale and drive our trading and evolving business.

We are looking for exceptional talent that can work closely and collaborate effectively across multiple teams spread around the globe and continue to take our infrastructure to the next level.

What You'll Do:

Develop deep technical expertise in your assigned product area and tech stack.

Own production deployment, configuration, and release processes

Drive performance, reliability, and operability through continuous improvement

Build and maintain production tooling that supports deployment, orchestration, monitoring, and system diagnostics

Define and maintain observability, SLI/SLOs, and performance metrics in partnership with product owners

Leverage metrics and capacity planning to ensure scalability and uptime

Collaborate across engineering teams to troubleshoot and resolve complex production incidents

Lead and coordinate incident response, root cause analysis, and post-mortems

Influence architecture and promote best practices by aligning with global SRE teams

Document processes and procedures; provide mentorship and cross-training to peers.

Actively manage operational risk for production changes

Other duties as assigned or needed

Skills You'll Need:

Degree in Computer Science, a related field, or equivalent professional experience

At least 5+ years of relevant work experience in an IT ops role, such as DevOps, SRE, Linux Systems Engineering, or Network Engineering

Expert level proficiency in C++

A rigorous, detail-oriented approach to operations

Strong understanding of the Linux operating system, including network and system configuration, kernel internals, scheduling, performance tuning

Strong understanding of networking concepts such as routing, multicast, LLDP, VLANs, and Ethernet

A deep sense of ownership and desire to meet business priorities with urgency

Ability to handle shared operational and periodic on-call duties

Reliable and predictable availability

If you are currently a student or recent graduate, please see our Campus postings which offer both Summer and Full-Time opportunities.