Linux Engineer Senior Quant Systems Lead

2 days ago


London, Greater London, United Kingdom The D. E. Shaw Group Full time

The D. E. Shaw Group seeks a senior systems engineer with extensive Linux experience to lead its Quant Systems team.

This is a hands-on technical role within an engineering team responsible for high-performance trading and research infrastructure in London.

As a senior Linux engineer, you will design and maintain the firm's largest compute infrastructure, including operating system platforms, software development tooling, high-performance computing, networking, and storage for research and trading.

Key responsibilities include workload scheduling design and implementation, fleet management, clustered file system design and operation, software design and life cycle (SDLC), kernel and network performance tuning for low-latency and high-throughput applications, and metrics collection and data mining analysis.

To be successful in this role, you should have a degree in computer science (or another technical discipline) and at least 2 years of comparable work experience.

You will also require in-depth knowledge of Linux-based operating systems and associated configuration management tools, as well as development experience in Python.

Experience with Rust, C, and Go is a plus, but not required.

Candidates should have excellent troubleshooting capabilities and experience with diagnostic/tracing tools.

A competitive annual salary is offered, estimated at around £120,000 based on industry standards for a senior Linux engineer in London.



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