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# Site Reliability Engineer

- **Company:** Jump Trading
- **Location:** New York, United States
- **Experience:** Expert
- **Salary:** $200,000.0 - $225,000.0
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** Big Data, BigTable, C++ (Programming Language), Cisco Hardwares, Configuration Management, Continuous Integration, Data Stores, Software Debugging, Linux, Data-Flow Analysis, Python (Programming Language), Network Planning and Design, Routing, RabbitMQ, Data Streaming, Time Series Databases, Kubernetes, Information Technology, Cassandra, Apache Kafka, Vertica, Stream Processing, Software Version Control
- **Published:** October 1, 2026
- **Apply:** https://startup.jobs/site-reliability-engineer-jump-trading-10237126

## About the Role

* 5+ years experience with Python, Go
 * Strong experience with Linux
 * Knowledge of streaming systems architecture and design
 * Message/streaming queues (Apache Kafka, RabbitMQ, etc.)
 * Working knowledge of Rust, C/C++
 * Experience with big data / columnar style data stores (Bigtable, Clickhouse, Cassandra) and time series databases
 * Experience working with version control and CI/CD systems.
 * App deployment management and lifecycle (CI/CD, Kubernetes, pods/containers)
 * Proven knowledge of working on infrastructure challenges in a reliability capacity
 * Previous experience demonstrating strategic thinking skills and maturity in tackling complex problems, dealing with people, technology and processes
 * Reliable and predictable availability

Bonus skills:

 * Experience with Rust
 * Prior exposure to Arista or Cisco hardware
 * Routing protocol knowledge
 * Prior network design knowledge

## Description

* Work in a hybrid Systems Engineer / Software Developer capacity on Jump's internal systems that manage the global infrastructure and colocation footprint
 * Architect, build and maintain streaming monitoring tooling, high performance / real-time packet and flow analysis systems, configuration management and automation frameworks
 * Take an ops-first approach, focusing on improving quality of the platforms for the wider team and always strive to identify improvements and opportunities for further make us more efficient
 * Identify opportunities to make services more efficient and resilient by designing alerting and observability around team and business requirements
 * Do deep-dive debugging sessions on low-level performance issues in complex software stacks
 * Other duties as assigned or needed


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