Site Reliability Engineer

Reposted 13 Days Ago
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New York, NY
Mid level
Information Technology • Financial Services
The Role
As a Site Reliability Engineer, you will manage deployment and maintenance of trading systems, solve technical problems, and support trading operations.
Summary Generated by Built In

Virtu is a leading financial firm that leverages cutting edge technology to deliver liquidity to the global markets and innovative, transparent trading solutions to our clients. As a market maker, Virtu provides deep liquidity that helps to create more efficient markets around the world. Our market structure expertise, broad diversification, and execution technology enables us to provide competitive bids and offers in over 19,000 securities, at over 235 venues, in 36 countries worldwide.​

THE ROLE

Virtu’s Site Reliability/Core Operations Engineers form a small, fast-paced global team dedicated to managing the deployment, maintenance, and enhancement of a sophisticated electronic trading system operating on hundreds of venues around the world. They are positioned at the very forefront of our technology’s interaction with the financial markets, requiring them to work well under high-stress situations and have an ability to react decisively and quickly in time-sensitive situations. This team is the first point of contact for all our external trading connections and, as such, they perform a dynamic mix of functions. This includes everything from counter party support to risk management and system triage/optimization. 

Our Site Reliability/Core Operations Engineers operate at a high-level in a Windows/Linux environment to solve complex technical problems and work with traders and exchanges to understand micro-market structure. A strong interest in the markets and technology is a must. This is a unique job opportunity to become an integral part of a fast-paced electronic trading environment.

THE CANDIDATE: 

  • Minimum 3 years of experience working experience, preferably in a site reliability engineering role
  • Excellent working knowledge of Windows/Linux environments
  • Ability to be cool under pressure and at ease in high-stress, time-sensitive environments
  • Interest in high transaction environments and/or low-latency systems.
  • Excellent communication skills
  • Strong academic record
  • Technical agility; interest in innovative technologies

DESIRED BUT NOT REQUIRED:

  • Working with financial systems or knowledge of the global financial market place
  • Competence in at least one programming language – preferably Python / Bash / Perl / Go or similar.
  • Experience with OMS/ESM order flow
  • Experience with SQL  
  • Experience with configuration management platforms (i.e. Ansible, Puppet or Salt)  
  • Knowledge of networking, both TCP and UDP  


Salary Range: $125,000 - $150,000 (salary range is exclusive of bonuses, benefits or other categories of compensation)

Virtu Financial is an equal opportunity employer, committed to a diverse and inclusive workplace, welcoming you for who you are and does not discriminate on the basis of race, national origin, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, protected veteran status, disability, age, or other legally protected status.


Top Skills

Ansible
Bash
Go
Linux
Perl
Puppet
Python
Salt
SQL
Windows
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The Company
HQ: New York, NY
822 Employees
On-site Workplace
Year Founded: 2008

What We Do

Virtu is a leading financial firm that leverages cutting edge technology to deliver liquidity to the global markets and innovative, transparent trading solutions to our clients.

We combine our market structure expertise and execution technology to provide deep liquidity and competitive bids and offers in over 19,000 securities, at over 235 venues in 36 countries and unrivaled execution technology to our clients, while creating more efficient and stable markets worldwide.

We strongly believe that transparency enables market participants to make better, more informed decisions while making markets more efficient. We strictly adhere to our core set of client values with each and every trade: Transparency, Reliability & Virtue.

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