Location: Illinois or Texas (Remote, significant travel required)

About Hexnode

Hexnode is a global leader in Unified Endpoint Management (UEM), trusted by over 100 countries and managing millions of devices worldwide. With a rapid pace of innovation, we have established ourselves as a dominant force across Apple, Windows, Android, macOS, Linux, and tvOS.

Hexnode is a rare combination of global scale, product excellence, and startup-level velocity. We operate in a mission-critical category—unified endpoint management—supporting organizations that rely on secure, reliable device management every minute of every day.

Role

Drive high-velocity pipeline and revenue growth through a strategic partner ecosystem across the Central and Western US. You will be responsible for recruiting, enabling, and co-selling with top-tier VARs, MSPs, and Distributors, targeting key buyers in IT, Security, and Endpoint Management.

Responsibilities

• Identify and activate a strategic portfolio of partners, prioritizing quality and long-term alignment over sheer volume.
• Develop and execute "Top 10" quarterly business plans, including joint pipeline development, executive alignment, and structured QBRs.
• Empower partners through expert-level pitch coaching, product demos, and sharp competitive positioning against incumbents like Intune, JAMF, Ivanti, and Workspace ONE.
• Collaborate on compelling partner offers, including creative bundling, MDF/co-marketing initiatives, and clear referral/resale frameworks.
• Maintain a disciplined cadence for forecasting partner-sourced pipeline and bookings to ensure consistent quota over-performance.

Who You Are

• 6–11 years of B2B partner/channel sales experience within SaaS, Security, or IT Infrastructure.
• Proven record of carrying a partner quota and navigating 2-tier distribution models (Distributor → Reseller/MSP).
• Exceptionally comfortable selling into the mid-market and commercial enterprise segments (500–10,000 employees).
• Deep experience working with MSPs, VARs, SIs, and Apple-focused or Education resellers. Experience with mobile carriers or agent networks is a significant plus.
• A skilled "internal seller" capable of securing SE resources, pricing approvals, and marketing support to unblock partner deals.
• High partner empathy with the ability to translate technical complexity into a simple, partner-ready value proposition.

Hexnode is an Equal Opportunity Employer. We welcome and encourage candidates of all backgrounds, identities, and experiences to apply.

The Hardware team at Hudson River Trading (HRT) creates high performance compute engines using FPGA and ASIC technology to drive low latency trading decisions on global markets. We build custom solutions across the spectrum of speed and smarts: from bespoke circuits to world-class machine learning accelerators.

FPGAs and ASICs are critical pieces of our technology stack. We are looking for talented hardware developers to architect and design complex systems on a highly collaborative global team. In this role, you'll identify efficient ways to perform on-the-fly transformations of market data and implement models with complex data structures in RTL. Deep knowledge of SystemVerilog, FPGA internals and/or ASIC primitives, computer architecture, and vendor tool suites are essential to succeeding in this role. Expertise in networking protocols, CPU design, and/or machine learning accelerators is a big plus. No financial experience is necessary.

Responsibilities

• Collaborate with a cross-functional team to develop and deploy custom FPGA and/or ASIC solutions for a wide range of trading applications
• Investigate new technologies and tools
• Contribute to a nimble hardware development tech stack

Qualifications

• Ability to describe hardware designs at a high level, low level, or anywhere in between
• Brilliant design, optimization, debugging and problem solving skills
• Professional experience (2+ years) in RTL design for FPGA or ASIC
• Expert SystemVerilog development skills with a thorough understanding of the language 
• Expert on low level FPGA or ASIC architectures, with a deep understanding of what makes them "tick"
• Skilled in network communications, processing pipelines, and/or machine learning
• Working knowledge of Python and/or C++
• Comfortable in a Linux environment
• Strong verification experience
• Familiarity with AMD Vivado is a plus
• A bachelor’s degree in computer science, electrical engineering, or a related field

This job is accepting ongoing applications and there is no application deadline.

The estimated base salary range for this position is 200,000 to 300,000 USD per year (or local equivalent). The base pay offered may vary depending on multiple individualized factors, including location, job-related knowledge, skills, and experience.

This role will also be eligible for discretionary performance-based bonuses and a competitive benefits package which includes medical, dental, vision, basic life insurance, and enrollment in our company’s retirement savings plans. Employees will receive sick and parental leave, as well as other paid time off (including 20 vacation days and 10 paid holidays in the US). Please note that benefits and time off policies will vary across non-US locations.

In any materials you submit, you may redact or remove age-identifying information such as age, date of birth, or dates of school attendance or graduation. You will not be penalized for redacting or removing this information.

The Research and Development (R&D) team at Hudson River Trading (HRT) builds and maintains the computers, networks, data storage, operating systems, and software that allow our trading strategies and research environment to operate worldwide 24/7. The Storage team within R&D manages hundreds of petabytes of storage to facilitate industry-leading AI/ML-based trading.

We are seeking an experienced Storage Engineer who enjoys being challenged, appreciates an open and collaborative organizational structure, and thrives in a fast-paced environment. In this role, you will manage our existing storage infrastructure and be responsible for the design, automation, and management of future storage solutions to support our large-scale research environment. This is an exciting opportunity to join a small team focused on HPC storage and help set the direction for storage solutions at HRT. You’ll have freedom to research, propose, and test new hardware and software to improve the performance and usability of our research environment.

Responsibilities

• Design, deploy and manage a variety of storage solutions
• Troubleshoot complex storage, OS, and networking issues
• Build tools to improve the performance and monitoring of storage clusters
• Research and experiment with new storage solutions

Qualifications

• Knowledge of distributed file systems used for large-scale cluster computing (Lustre, CephFS, GPFS, etc.) 
• Ability to design a home grown NAS storage solution with redundancy and high availability
• 3+ years of experience in HPC-like environments with large scale storage deployments greater than 1PB
• 3+ years of experience with scale-out enterprise storage solutions such as Isilon, VAST, NetApp, and Pure
• Extensive experience with Linux troubleshooting and NFS
• Strong knowledge of Linux, ZFS, and other Linux filesystems
• Proficient in Python and shell scripting 
• Strong cross-functional communication skills
• Ability to analyze and solve problems quickly in a fast-paced environment
• Exceptional time management skills and the ability to balance independent and collaborative workflows 
• Eager to learn and apply new skills

The estimated base salary range for this position is 150,000 to 250,000 USD per year (or local equivalent). The base pay offered may vary depending on multiple individualized factors, including location, job-related knowledge, skills, and experience. This role will also be eligible for discretionary performance-based bonuses and a competitive benefits package.

Hudson River Trading’s High Performance Computing (HPC) Network Engineering team designs and engineers the low-latency communications infrastructure that underpins our incredibly large GPU and CPU compute clusters. Our mandate is to architect, optimize, and scale the high-performance LAN and WAN infrastructure that interconnects globally distributed, large-scale on-prem data centers, enabling them to grow rapidly and operate at peak performance in support of HRT’s demanding computational workloads. 

We are looking for a Network Engineer with deep experience in designing, deploying, and scaling networks for large-scale HPC environments. You will be building the next generation of infrastructure required by a premier algorithmic trading firm operating at the forefront of technology and finance.

This position requires deep technical skills, along with the  product leadership and vision needed for the future of cloud-scale networking. You’ll have broad responsibilities and freedom to analyze and solve problems, and your solutions will have an immediate impact on our operations worldwide. We’re looking for someone who loves  technology and is excited about tackling big picture problems. You will work on a wide variety of projects to enhance the performance and capacity of the network and contribute to both the management and the technical nitty-gritty of our computing architecture. Our people and our compute capabilities are our two most important differentiators, and that is where we are investing the most.

Responsibilities

• Network design, product selection, routing, configuration and troubleshooting
• Closely work with our HPC Systems team, as well as other teams to scale our research environment 
• Meet with external parties for project related items as well as future endeavors
• Overall capacity planning for the data center networks
• Develop scripts and processes to increase efficiency
• Collaborate with others in the network team to solve cross discipline problems
• Provide detailed documentation 
• Mentor others as a senior resource 

Profile

• 10+ years of relevant experience
• Proven ability to prioritize workloads and manage implementation schedules with a meticulous attention to detail 
• Proactive problem-solver with the technical skills and hands-on mentality to tackle challenges in the field.
• Strong collaboration skills and a focus on continuous improvement, with the humility to own and learn from mistakes 

Skills

• Excellent oral and written communication skills: able to distill complicated issues into clear and concise terms
• Able to create and maintain clear and effective technical documentation
• In depth understanding of common layer 2 and layer 3 network protocols (OSPF, BGP, PIM, IGMP, RoCEv2, spine-leaf architecture, and VXLAN) and best practices for them
• Proven ability to select and work with vendors to engineer switches for next-generation computing environments
• Experience managing Arista (EOS), Cisco (NX-OS), Nvidia (Cumulus) and SONiC-based switches, as well as an interest in exploring new platforms
• Strong design skills in computing and grid networks, with expertise in capacity planning, and full lifecycle project management
• Experience with packet decoding and analysis tools such as tcpdump and Wireshark
• Experience with public cloud networks, such as AWS, GCP, Azure
• Familiarity with configuration management tools, such as Ansible or Salt is desirable to support zero-touch network management
• Familiarity with Python, Prometheus, Grafana, ELK, GitHub is desirable
• Understanding of basic power consumption and cooling issues in a data center environment
• Knowledge of fiber optics technology and cabling standards ranging from 1 to 800 Gbps. Ability to sort through specs and make recommendations on appropriate purchases.
• Skilled in Unix/Linux command line utilities and networking stack
• Experience with AI style network designs and workloads is preferred

The estimated base salary range for this position is 200,000 to 300,000 USD per year (or local equivalent). The base pay offered may vary depending on multiple individualized factors, including location, job-related knowledge, skills, and experience. 

This role will also be eligible for discretionary performance-based bonuses and a competitive benefits package which includes medical, dental, vision, basic life insurance, and enrollment in our company’s retirement savings plans. Employees will receive sick and parental leave, as well as other paid time off (including 20 vacation days and 10 paid holidays in the US). Please note that benefits and time off policies will vary across non-US locations.

Hudson River Trading (HRT) is seeking a Junior Trading Systems Engineer to join our growing Trading Systems Infrastructure team. This team designs, builds, and maintains the infrastructure that powers our global trading, and is responsible for ensuring optimal performance and uptime of the ultra low-latency operating systems, automation software, and development tools that allow our trading strategies to run worldwide 24/7.

As a Junior Trading Systems Engineer, you’ll work on projects focusing on our real-time production trading environment and tackle problems that require high availability, high throughput, and ultra low-latency solutions. The ideal candidate possesses a passion for coding and automation, is eager to learn new skills to help build an elegant stack, and has the ability to handle challenging technical issues within a dynamic and fast-paced environment. 

Responsibilities

• Manage worldwide Linux-based trading infrastructure by contributing to the planning and execution of complex technical projects and tasks
• Troubleshoot hardware and software issues across the stack 
• Plan and implement system installations and upgrades 
• Deploy, configure, and test internal and external applications 
• Improve documentation and reduce technical debt
• Benchmark the performance of the trading stack, working with subject matter experts across the organization
• Join an on-call rotation schedule to cover trading hours and weekend shifts, as needed

Qualifications

• 2+ years of relevant experience managing Linux systems: you can install packages, manage users, control services, and know where to look for system logs, and you understand TCP/IP networking, default gateways, and how to debug connectivity problems
• Familiarity installing and configuring Linux systems, from hardware and networking to kernel to applications 
• Knowledge of Debian/Ubuntu is desirable
• Basic familiarity with configuration management tools, particularly SaltStack – some knowledge of Puppet, Ansible, Chef, or CFEngine is also desirable
• Proven programming experience: you don't just know what big-O notation is, you've also built working software and can explain and defend your design
• Basic shell (bash) scripting experience
• Experience using JIRA
• Strong cross-functional communication and organization skills
• Experience with production systems, as well as some cloud experience in AWS or GCP, is desirable but not required

The estimated base salary range for this position is 120,000 to 160,000 USD per year (or local equivalent). The base pay offered may vary depending on multiple individualized factors, including location, job-related knowledge, skills, and experience. This role will also be eligible for discretionary performance-based bonuses and a competitive benefits package.

The Hardware team at Hudson River Trading (HRT) creates high performance compute engines using FPGA and ASIC technology to drive low latency trading decisions on global markets. We build custom solutions across the spectrum of speed and smarts: from bespoke circuits to world-class machine learning accelerators.

These high performance designs require even higher performance verification. We are looking for experienced Design Verification (DV) engineers who are skilled at writing testbenches and building verification environments to exercise complex HDL. Our ideal candidate is not only an ace tester, but a practicing toolsmith. You know the EDA landscape and want to be part of a team actively working to rethink, redesign, and surpass the status quo. For example, members of our team are active maintainers of popular open source projects such as Slang, Verilator, and Cocotb.

FPGA and ASIC verification is part of an innovative, growing team at HRT which is integral to the success of our trading. You can expect to always be challenged by the ever-changing financial markets as you work to ensure correctness and robustness of our critical hardware in an extremely fast-paced, real-time environment. No financial experience is necessary.

Responsibilities

• Creating testbenches and tests for our hardware platform, leveraging a hybrid open-source/proprietary, highly flexible environment
• Writing detailed verification plans
• Quickly root-cause RTL bugs
• Collaborating directly with designers for rapid bringup of new projects and debugging of existing designs
• Managing test suites and continuous integration infrastructure
• Developing and improving open-source and internal tools

Qualifications 

• Superb debug and analytical skills 
• Professional experience (2+ years) in RTL functional verification for FPGA or ASIC
• Experience with code and functional coverage collection/analysis
• Experience with SystemVerilog and industry-standard frameworks such as UVM
• Experience with Python
• Comfortable in a Linux environment
• Familiarity with Verilator and/or Cocotb preferred
• C++ experience is a plus
• A bachelor’s degree in computer science, electrical engineering, or a related field

The estimated base salary range for this position is 175,000 to 250,000 USD per year (or local equivalent). The base pay offered may vary depending on multiple individualized factors, including location, job-related knowledge, skills, and experience. This role will also be eligible for discretionary performance-based bonuses and a competitive benefits package.

Hudson River Trading (HRT) is seeking a Trading Systems Engineer to join our growing Trading Systems Infrastructure team. This team designs, builds, and maintains the infrastructure that powers our global trading, and is responsible for ensuring optimal performance and uptime of the ultra low-latency operating systems, automation software, and development tools that allow our trading strategies to run worldwide 24/7.

As a Trading Systems Engineer, you’ll work on projects focusing on our real-time production trading environment and tackle problems that require high availability, high throughput, and ultra low-latency solutions. The ideal candidate possesses a passion for coding and automation, is eager to learn new skills to help build an elegant stack, and has the ability to handle challenging technical issues within a dynamic and fast-paced environment.

Responsibilities

• Design, manage, automate, and optimize worldwide Linux-based trading infrastructure by planning and executing complex technical projects and tasks
• Troubleshoot hardware and software issues across the stack 
• Design and implement system installations and upgrades 
• Deploy, configure, and test internal and external applications 
• Remain unfazed by production-critical issues, resolving them quickly and efficiently
• Benchmark and tune the performance of the trading stack 
• Hold vendors accountable on performance and reliability issues, with the ability to confidently go toe-to-toe with a vendor's Tier 2 engineering team during an escalation
• Join an on-call rotation schedule to cover trading hours and weekend shifts, as needed

Qualifications

• 7+ years of relevant experience supporting a live production environment (especially trading)
• Expert in installing, configuring, and troubleshooting Linux systems, from hardware and networking to kernel to applications 
• Knowledge of Debian/Ubuntu is desirable
• Proficiency with configuration management tools, particularly SaltStack – strong knowledge of Puppet, Ansible, Chef, or CFEngine is also desirable
• Advanced programming experience focusing on automation and integration; Python is strongly preferred
• Advanced shell (bash) scripting experience
• Significant experience managing and debugging production trading services
• Strong cross-functional communication and organization skills
• Proven ability to manage assigned projects efficiently, ideally using JIRA
• Architect-level cloud experience in AWS or GCP is desirable, but not required

This job is accepting ongoing applications and there is no application deadline.

The estimated base salary range for this position is 150,000 to 250,000 USD per year (or local equivalent). The base pay offered may vary depending on multiple individualized factors, including location, job-related knowledge, skills, and experience.

This role will also be eligible for discretionary performance-based bonuses and a competitive benefits package which includes medical, dental, vision, basic life insurance, and enrollment in our company’s retirement savings plans. Employees will receive sick and parental leave, as well as other paid time off (including 20 vacation days and 10 paid holidays in the US). Please note that benefits and time off policies will vary across non-US locations.

In any materials you submit, you may redact or remove age-identifying information such as age, date of birth, or dates of school attendance or graduation. You will not be penalized for redacting or removing this information.

At Hudson River Trading (HRT), C++ is at the center of our live trading systems and research infrastructure. Our C++ engineers build the highly performant, fault-tolerant systems that power trading across global markets. HRT’s distributed system is on the Pareto frontier of latency and throughput, giving you limitless opportunity to leverage your deep knowledge of C++, OS internals, CPU architecture, and networking hardware and protocols. You’ll work side-by-side with researchers, traders, and hardware specialists, implementing solutions where every microsecond matters.

Our bottom-up approach to projects and our highly collaborative environment empower talented engineers to make significant contributions and see their impact daily. At HRT, you'll be challenged to solve complex problems in a fast-paced, highly competitive industry, surrounded by some of the brightest minds in the field.

C++ Engineers at HRT work on a wide variety of projects. Examples include: 

• Develop and optimize infrastructure for market data, order entry and execution logic, spanning tens of asset classes including options, equities, futures, crypto, and fixed income. 
• Design fault-tolerant, low-latency systems for live trading, including encoding/prioritization of data over WAN links and recovery from hardware failures.
• Profile and improve performance-critical code for both throughput and latency in production environments.
• Build and maintain infrastructure that drives products including client-facing wholesale and SDP platforms, distributed network filesystems, and scalable research workflows.
• Write software that interfaces with specialized hardware such as FPGAs and ASICs used in trading systems.

Profile

• You’re one of the top devs in your current organization, as measured by productivity, technical capability, and helpfulness to other devs.
• You are capable of solving complex engineering problems independently and providing technical advice for others in areas of your expertise. 
• You can make progress on long-term architectural projects while troubleshooting smaller tasks and bug fixes with agility.
• You can describe software designs at a high level (the abstract interface), low level (step-by-step algorithm), or anywhere in between. 
• You are always looking for ways to make systems better.

Qualifications

• 1+ years of professional work experience 
• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or related field
• Superior design, debugging, and problem solving skills
• Advanced C++ experience is required, daily use preferred
• Knowledge of UNIX operating systems (we use Linux), system/processor performance, and network communication

The estimated base salary range for this position is 200,000 to 300,000 USD per year (or local equivalent). The base pay offered may vary depending on multiple individualized factors, including location, job-related knowledge, skills, and experience. This role will also be eligible for discretionary performance-based bonuses and a competitive benefits package.

The Networks team designs, builds and maintains all the communications infrastructure that allows our high-capacity, low-latency trading and data research environments to run 24/7.  This network spans over 25 countries and 100 locations. We are looking for a Senior Network Engineer with experience designing and managing large environments to fulfill the high-performance and availability requirements of a premiere algorithmic trading firm operating in global financial markets. 

This position requires both project management and deep technical skills. Working together with some of the brightest minds in our industry, you’ll be responsible for everything from product selection and design to routing configuration and troubleshooting. You will work closely with our Systems and Trading Operations teams as well as others at HRT to build, manage, and monitor our low-latency trading network. You’ll have broad responsibilities with freedom to analyze and solve problems, and your solutions will have an immediate impact on our worldwide operations. 

We’re looking for someone with a love for technology and an excitement for tackling big picture problems. You will work on a wide variety of projects to enhance the performance and capacity of the global trading and research platforms and contribute to both high-level strategy and the technical nitty-gritty of our global network architecture.

Qualifications

• BS in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, or related IT field
• 5-10 years of relevant experience, preferably in low-latency and high-frequency trading environments.
• In depth understanding of common layer 2 and layer 3 network protocols and best practices; working knowledge of OSPF, BGP, PIM, IGMP
• Experience managing Arista, Cisco, and other common networking devices on a day-to-day basis
• Familiarity with low-latency microwave networks and/or optical transmission systems, such as Adva, Ciena is desirable
• Experience in designing enterprise networks, capacity planning, and full lifecycle project management
• Experience with packet decoding and analysis tools such as tcpdump and Wireshark
• Excellent oral and written communication skills: able to distill complicated issues into clear and concise terms and to create and maintain effective technical documentation
• Experience with Unix/Linux command line utilities and networking stack
• Excellent troubleshooting skills on a wide range of networking issues, including common ethernet LAN problems, multicast market data distribution, and global WAN
• Understanding of basic power consumption and cooling issues in a datacenter environment
• Knowledge of fiber optics technology and cabling standards. Ability to sort through specs and make recommendations on appropriate purchases
• Willingness and ability to solve small technical problems in the field yourself.
• You have excellent collaboration skills and a willingness to admit mistakes.
• Familiarity with firewalls (including Cisco, Palo Alto, Fortinet), VPNs and NAT
• Familiarity with configuration management tools, such as Ansible or Salt is desirable
• Familiarity with Python, Prometheus, Grafana, ELK, GitHub is desirable
• Familiarity with public cloud networks, such as AWS, GCP, Azure, is desirable

The estimated base salary range for this position is 200,000 to 300,000 USD per year (or local equivalent). The base pay offered may vary depending on multiple individualized factors, including location, job-related knowledge, skills, and experience.

This role will also be eligible for discretionary performance-based bonuses and a competitive benefits package which includes medical, dental, vision, basic life insurance, and enrollment in our company’s retirement savings plans. Employees will receive sick and parental leave, as well as other paid time off (including 20 vacation days and 10 paid holidays in the US). Please note that benefits and time off policies will vary across non-US locations.

Working as a coder at Hudson River Trading (HRT) means working on a small, highly productive, and efficient team. You may see "trading" in our name and assume you'll be relegated to some dark corner to code for the "business," but that could not be further from the truth! 

At HRT, an automated trading firm based in NYC, the code you write *is* our business, so it is everyone's job to make sure our developers have everything they need to do their jobs well.

As a member of the AI Tools team, you will be responsible for increasing productivity across the company by integrating the newest AI tools into our users’ workflows. Whether it’s for a Python developer writing a web app, a C++ developer speeding up order execution, a researcher investigating trade signals, or even Business Development meeting with vendors - we are focused on deploying what works.

This is an exciting opportunity to help build and define the AI tooling ecosystem at HRT. You will have to navigate the rapidly evolving options in this space, and adapt them to our own internal systems. You might be fixing auth one day, comparing vendors the next, and coding a new MCP the third. 

Responsibilities

• Help us develop software that improves productivity for every office and department at HRT while using the latest technologies and techniques in software engineering and the broader AI tooling ecosystem.
• HRT has many high-impact areas where we are integrating AI tools; here’s what you could work on:
• Writing a custom MCP wrapper around internal resources.
• Fine-tuning a new code completion model.
• Deploying a new coding assistant across all developer and researcher environments.
• Developing evaluations and iterating on an autonomous coding agent.
• Collaborating with security to improve AI sandboxing.
• Presenting and educating users on best practices.

Profile

• You’re one of the top devs in your current organization, as measured by productivity, technical capability, and helpfulness to other devs.
• Experience deploying and maintaining applications. You’ve managed an application from the design phase through the production phase.
• You’re comfortable with defining direction in an environment of ambiguity and uncertainty. The AI tooling space changes rapidly.
• You really like to work with people who challenge you and make you better at what you do.
• In your spare time you code, tinker, read, explore, break things, and have an insatiable curiosity for all things AI and computer-related.

Qualifications

• Completed a Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related technical field. If you are currently pursuing your Bachelor's degree, please apply to our Campus/New Grad opportunities.
• Python experience is required, daily use of most recent standards preferred.
• C++ and JavaScript (TypeScript, React) experience a plus.
• Experience with the AI tooling ecosystem (use coding assistants/agentic workflows, ideally have built your own customizations).
• Superior design, debugging, and problem solving skills.
• Knowledge of UNIX operating systems (we use Linux), system/processor performance, and network communication.

The estimated base salary range for this position is 200,000 to 300,000 USD per year (or local equivalent). The base pay offered may vary depending on multiple individualized factors, including location, job-related knowledge, skills, and experience. This role will also be eligible for discretionary performance-based bonuses and a competitive benefits package.

Senior Software Engineer - [Chicago | Atlanta | Boston]

Who We Are 

At 8th Light, we bring life to the best ideas.

Founded in 2006 and headquartered in Chicago, we are a technology solutions provider that partners with organizations to solve meaningful challenges and drive sustainable growth. From early-stage startups to global enterprises, we work across industries to optimize our clients’ digital products through product strategy innovation, experiential design, AI solutions, and deep engineering expertise. 

Our commitment to quality means we deliver solutions we’re truly proud of, while our curiosity sparks innovation and breakthrough thinking. 8th Lights thrive in an environment that champions continuous education, fueling our growth through mentorship and hands-on work. We foster an open and collaborative culture grounded in honesty that builds trust, and believe true success is measured by the outcomes we create for our clients.

If this kind of work and our kind of people energizes you, you’ve found the right place. 

Who You Are

You’ve shown repeated success on a variety of projects, typically over the course of 4+ years. You have a broad range of expertise that allows you to make an immediate impact on projects. In your previous experience, you have:

• Successfully contributed to high-stakes consulting engagements from discovery to production 
• Written production-quality code using a variety of languages and frameworks, that include: Python, Java, JavaScript, TypeScript, React, Ruby, Scala, R, SQL, and Go
• Built high-quality, maintainable software collaboratively, incrementally, and through an approach tailored towards the unique needs of the clients you’ve served 
• Leveraged AI-assistive development tools for tasks like scaffolding, refactoring, debugging, test generation, and documentation, where appropriate
• Experience building or integrating AI/ML-powered features into products or systems (e.g., recommendation engines, NLP models, computer vision, predictive analytics) 
• Used context-appropriate automated testing to inform software design choices and catch bugs
• Debugged and refactored pre-existing code to incrementally improve it
• Collaborated with teams using Git, MacOS/Linux, and CI/CD
• Remedied architecture-level concerns such as scalability, security, reliability, and performance
• Contributed to forums that encourage idea sharing, collaboration, and problem solving
• Made thoughtful recommendations and set direction in the face of ambiguity
• Mentored and shared knowledge with colleagues
• Actively sought out and effectively given feedback
• Communicated empathically with stakeholders and colleagues
• Influenced stakeholders to balance technical considerations with product and user needs

What You’ll Do At 8th Light

As a senior technologist on projects, you’ll work with a variety of clients, typically one to two in a year, through a variety of technologies and frameworks over the course of your career with us. You’ll work with colleagues who share your passion for technology solutions. You’ll invest time developing your skills and sharing what you know. You’ll be responsible for:

• Making immediate contributions to projects, rapidly building trust with your clients and team
• Working pragmatically to balance technology choices while delivering high-quality work within deadlines
• Contributing to architecture and software design discussions
• Collaborating on systems that involve the full ML lifecycle from data ingestion and preprocessing, to model deployment, integration, and performance monitoring
• Generating new potential solutions to challenges (technical and non-technical) in partnership with team members and clients
• Contributing to formal feedback conversations with teams and clients via retrospectives
• Clearly articulating and documenting outcomes and driving forward action items
• Regular syncs with your delivery team to provide status updates, and for identifying and evaluating risks and presenting potential solutions
• Identifying, mitigating, and resolving blockers to team progress
• Pursuing opportunities to further your skills to grow your career and keep pace with the rapid changes within the technology industry 
• Contributing to your team culture by building connections with your fellow 8th Lights, showing up on camera, and leveraging collaboration opportunities, such as coworking spaces and local team gatherings, where appropriate
• Confidently predicting the next World Series Win for the Chicago White Sox. 

Strongly Preferred Skills

We work across many areas, and encourage anyone with the experience listed above to apply. We would particularly like to encourage applicants with experience in the following areas:

• MLOps: including tools like LangChain for application development and managing the ML lifecycle
• Data Engineering: including platforms like Databricks for data processing and analytics
• DevSecOps & DevOps
• Infrastructure as Code

Building a truly diverse, equitable, and inclusive workplace is an ongoing journey, and we’re excited to keep learning and growing together. We have a proud tradition of hiring talented colleagues with real-world career experiences. 

How You’ll be Supported

At 8th Light, we believe our people are our greatest asset. Their growth, well-being, and success shape our future. 

Our wellness package is designed with the Whole YOU in mind and includes:

• A robust L&D program featuring unlimited access to thousands of books, courses, and expert-led training on the O'Reilly learning platform
• Coworking support for our global team
• Flexible PTO 
• 12 weeks of new parent leave available for eligible employees
• Transparent semi-annual promotion panel

See our full list of Benefits. 

A Note on Compensation

At 8th Light, we are committed to a compensation philosophy that is transparent, fair, and helps us attract and retain top talent in alignment with our company’s strategic growth goals and clients’ needs.

We benchmark our salaries using Geographic Structures to establish competitive pay ranges within the regions where 8th Lights live. Our pay ranges for our Senior Engineer position within Chicago, Illinois is: $104,160-$130,200 USD. 

Reach out to recruiting@8thlight.com for more relevant information pertaining to your local market.

8th Light Hubs and Geographies

As a remote-first company, 8th Light's culture is rooted in strong connections that extend across our teams, regions, and beyond client work. We are a distributed team across the United States, Canada, and the United Kingdom, with hubs in Chicago, London, Los Angeles, New York, and Seattle. 

If you are hired into a hub, you will be a part of a team with regular rituals around co-working and community building. For team members outside of those cities, we offer access to coworking spaces to foster continued collaboration and connection across our global team. 

In most cases, our consulting engagements do not require travel.

We hope to see you apply! 

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WHO WE ARE:  

Aviatrix® is pioneering the Cloud Native Security Fabric — the architecture the Containment Era requires. The Cloud Native Security Fabric governs every workload communication path across every cloud, every VPC, every Kubernetes cluster, and every serverless function, from a single policy plane. One rule. Universal propagation. Enforced at the workload, not at a chokepoint. Trusted by more than 500 of the world's leading enterprises. For more information, visit aviatrix.ai.

ABOUT THE ROLE:

The Aviatrix SRE team is a small but highly skilled global group of Systems Engineers/SREs dedicated to ensuring the reliability, availability, and performance of Aviatrix’s critical systems and services. Our mission is to build and maintain a robust, resilient infrastructure that enables Aviatrix to deliver high-quality services with agility through automation, best practices, and a culture of operational excellence.

As a Member of Technical Staff (MTS) Site Reliability Engineer, you’ll be developing your foundational SRE skills while contributing to the reliability and performance of our systems. You’ll work under supervision to implement solutions, learn our infrastructure, and gain hands-on experience with production systems.

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES

• Kubernetes: Learn to manage basic application deployments, assist with troubleshooting, and support monitoring tasks
• Infrastructure as Code: Implement IaC for straightforward provisioning tasks and configuration changes
• Automation & Development: Contribute to existing automation tools and frameworks in Golang and Python
• Basic System Maintenance: Contribute to system reliability through routine maintenance tasks and monitoring
• Implementation Support: Implement well-defined solutions for moderate complexity technical problems
• Reliability Engineering: Learn fundamentals of system reliability; contribute to maintaining uptime for well-defined services under guidance
• Automation Excellence: Execute basic automation scripts; contribute to existing automation frameworks with supervision
• Observability: Implement basic monitoring configurations; learn to read dashboards and interpret common metrics
• Incident Management: Participate in incident response with escalation support; document findings and learnings
• Performance Engineering: Monitor system performance using established metrics; escalate performance issues appropriately
• Collaboration: Participate actively in team meetings; communicate status and blockers effectively

QUALIFICATIONS

• Experience: 0-3+ years in software engineering, system administration, or related technical roles
• Education: BS in Computer Science, Engineering, or related field
• Programming: Basic proficiency in at least one programming language (Golang, Python preferred)
• Cloud Platforms: Foundational knowledge of cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, GCP)
• Linux: Basic Linux system administration skills
• Version Control: Experience with Git and code review processes
• Communication: Strong communication skills and eagerness to learn
• Problem-Solving: Demonstrated ability to solve technical problems independently

US Pay Range

The annual base salary range for this full-time position is $111,600-$131,300 + benefits + 401(k) match + equity and is bonus eligible. The pay range is determined by the role, work location, job-related skills, level, experience and relevant education.  The range displayed is applicable only for new hires for the listed position located in the US. Your Talent Advisor can share more details regarding salary ranges, benefits, and equity for your location during the hiring process.

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Overview:

You’ll build the infrastructure and workflows that power systematic and semi-systematic trading at scale. Sitting at the intersection of research and engineering, this role enables large-scale experimentation, high-fidelity backtesting, and data-driven strategy development. 

You’ll partner closely with traders and researchers to turn ideas into measurable experiments—designing robust backtests, iterating quickly, and uncovering signal in complex datasets. The systems you build will be critical to exploring new trading strategies, refining execution logic, and supporting advanced techniques including machine learning. 

This is a highly experimental environment where progress depends on speed, correctness, and the ability to ask—and answer—the right questions.

Technology at Optiver:

At Optiver we pride ourselves on being real engineers, not just coders. Our engineers work closely with traders to identify the business problems we face and determine how they should be solved. We apply a disciplined and scientific approach. We engineer simple, well-architected solutions that meet the dynamic needs of our traders. Our passion is to solve problems which really matter to the business, and we take pride in the quality of our solutions.

What you’ll do:

• Build and scale high-performance backtesting and simulation infrastructure 
• Design workflows that enable rapid experimentation and hypothesis testing  
• Translate trading ideas into testable models, signals, and research pipelines  
• Ensure realism and correctness in simulations (e.g., market microstructure, latency, data quality)  
• Develop tools to analyze performance, explain behavior, and guide iteration  
• Improve the speed, reliability, and usability of the research platform  
• Own the full lifecycle from idea → backtest → analysis → production  

What you’ll get:

You’ll join a culture of collaboration and excellence, surrounded by curious thinkers and creative problem-solvers. Motivated by a passion for continuous improvement, you’ll thrive in a supportive, high-performing environment alongside talented colleagues, collectively tackling some of the toughest challenges in the financial markets.

In addition, you’ll receive:

• The opportunity to work alongside best-in-class professionals from over 40 different countries
• A highly competitive compensation package
• Global profit-sharing pool and performance-based bonus structure
• 401(k) match up to 50%
• Comprehensive health, mental, dental, vision, disability, and life coverage
• 25 paid vacation days alongside market holidays
• Extensive office perks, including breakfast, lunch and snacks, regular social events, clubs, sporting leagues and more

Who you are:

• Experience leading complex, large-scale engineering projects
• Strong computer science fundamentals and sound engineering judgment
• Ability to balance innovative thinking with practical execution
• Proficiency in systems-level programming (e.g., C, C++, Linux)
• A mindset of continuous improvement in a fast-paced environment
• Willingness to set technical direction, uphold engineering standards, and take ownership of outcomes 

Who we are:

Optiver is a tech-driven trading firm and leading global market maker. As one of the oldest market making institutions, we are a trusted partner of 70+ exchanges across the globe. Our mission is to constantly improve the market by injecting liquidity, providing accurate pricing, increasing transparency and acting as a stabilising force no matter the market conditions. With a focus on continuous improvement, we participate in the safeguarding of healthy and efficient markets for everyone who participates.

Optiver Chicago’s culture parallels the energetic city we’re immersed in. Home to the Chicago Board of Trade, Chicago Board Options Exchange, and Chicago Mercantile Exchange, Chicago has established itself as the trading capital of the US. Active on leading US exchanges, Optiver’s Chicago office trades a wide range of products from listed derivatives to cash equities, ETFs, bonds and foreign exchange.

Our differences are our edge. Optiver does not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, sex, gender identity, sexual orientation, age, physical or mental disability, or other legally protected characteristics.

Overview:

You’ll work at the center of our interaction with retail order flow, building systems that decide how millions of orders are priced, routed, and executed in real time. This role sits directly alongside traders and researchers, owning problems end-to-end—from exchange connectivity and routing logic to pricing, risk checks, and monitoring. 

You’ll operate across the full stack, balancing performance, correctness, and adaptability in a fast-moving market environment. 

Technology at Optiver:

At Optiver we pride ourselves on being real engineers, not just coders. Our engineers work closely with traders to identify the business problems we face and determine how they should be solved. We apply a disciplined and scientific approach. We engineer simple, well-architected solutions that meet the dynamic needs of our traders. Our passion is to solve problems which really matter to the business, and we take pride in the quality of our solutions.

What you’ll do:

• Design and build real-time order routing and execution systems handling high volumes of retail flow.
• Work closely with trading and research to optimize execution quality (fill rates, slippage, speed)
• Improve resiliency, observability, and risk controls across the execution stack
• Analyze production behavior and implement data-driven improvements to routing and execution strategies
• Own systems end-to-end, from design and deployment to monitoring and iteration  

What you’ll get:

You’ll join a culture of collaboration and excellence, surrounded by curious thinkers and creative problem-solvers. Motivated by a passion for continuous improvement, you’ll thrive in a supportive, high-performing environment alongside talented colleagues, collectively tackling some of the toughest challenges in the financial markets.

In addition, you’ll receive:

• The opportunity to work alongside best-in-class professionals from over 40 different countries
• A highly competitive compensation package
• Global profit-sharing pool and performance-based bonus structure
• 401(k) match up to 50%
• Comprehensive health, mental, dental, vision, disability, and life coverage
• 25 paid vacation days alongside market holidays
• Extensive office perks, including breakfast, lunch and snacks, regular social events, clubs, sporting leagues and more

Who you are:

• Experience leading complex, large-scale engineering projects
• Strong computer science fundamentals and sound engineering judgment
• Ability to balance innovative thinking with practical execution
• Proficient in systems-level programming (e.g., C, C++, Linux)
• A mindset of continuous improvement in a fast-paced environment
• Willingness to set technical direction, uphold engineering standards, and take ownership of outcomes 

Who we are:

Optiver is a tech-driven trading firm and leading global market maker. As one of the oldest market making institutions, we are a trusted partner of 70+ exchanges across the globe. Our mission is to constantly improve the market by injecting liquidity, providing accurate pricing, increasing transparency and acting as a stabilising force no matter the market conditions. With a focus on continuous improvement, we participate in the safeguarding of healthy and efficient markets for everyone who participates.

Optiver Chicago’s culture parallels the energetic city we’re immersed in. Home to the Chicago Board of Trade, Chicago Board Options Exchange, and Chicago Mercantile Exchange, Chicago has established itself as the trading capital of the US. Active on leading US exchanges, Optiver’s Chicago office trades a wide range of products from listed derivatives to cash equities, ETFs, bonds and foreign exchange.

Our differences are our edge. Optiver does not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, sex, gender identity, sexual orientation, age, physical or mental disability, or other legally protected characteristics.

Overview:

The Automated Trading Systems (ATS) team designs and builds systematic and semi-systematic trading strategies that convert pricing and risk into real-time execution on exchange. Our systems operate across extreme scales—from nanosecond-sensitive, collocated infrastructure to large-scale simulation platforms processing terabytes of data daily with deterministic precision.
Engineers work side-by-side with traders and researchers in a tight feedback loop, where ideas move rapidly from research to production. You’ll own problems end-to-end, with the autonomy to drive improvements and direct visibility into trading outcomes.

Technology at Optiver:

At Optiver we pride ourselves on being real engineers, not just coders. Our engineers work closely with traders to identify the business problems we face and determine how they should be solved. We apply a disciplined and scientific approach. We engineer simple, well-architected solutions that meet the dynamic needs of our traders. Our passion is to solve problems which really matter to the business, and we take pride in the quality of our solutions.

What you’ll do:

• Drive improvements to our options trading systems through hands-on engineering and cross-functional collaboration
  • Trading algorithms
  • Backtesting and research infrastructure
  • Market data and execution systems
• Partner closely with traders and researchers to iterate on and deploy strategies
• Lead and contribute to large-scale, performance-critical projects
• Mentor and develop junior engineers
• Influence technical direction and contribute to strategic decisions shaping the business

What you’ll get:

You’ll join a culture of collaboration and excellence, surrounded by curious thinkers and creative problem-solvers. Motivated by a passion for continuous improvement, you’ll thrive in a supportive, high-performing environment alongside talented colleagues, collectively tackling some of the toughest challenges in the financial markets.

In addition, you’ll receive:

• The opportunity to work alongside best-in-class professionals from over 40 different countries
• A highly competitive compensation package
• Global profit-sharing pool and performance-based bonus structure
• 401(k) match up to 50%
• Comprehensive health, mental, dental, vision, disability, and life coverage
• 25 paid vacation days alongside market holidays
• Extensive office perks, including breakfast, lunch and snacks, regular social events, clubs, sporting leagues and more

Who you are:

• Experience leading complex, large-scale engineering projects
• Strong computer science fundamentals and sound engineering judgment
• Proficiency in systems-level or performance-oriented programming (e.g., C, C++, Python, Linux)
• Ability to balance innovative thinking with practical execution
• A mindset of continuous improvement in a fast-paced environment
• Willingness to set technical direction, uphold engineering standards, and take ownership of outcomes

Who we are:

Optiver is a tech-driven trading firm and leading global market maker. As one of the oldest market making institutions, we are a trusted partner of 70+ exchanges across the globe. Our mission is to constantly improve the market by injecting liquidity, providing accurate pricing, increasing transparency and acting as a stabilising force no matter the market conditions. With a focus on continuous improvement, we participate in the safeguarding of healthy and efficient markets for everyone who participates.

Optiver Chicago’s culture parallels the energetic city we’re immersed in. Home to the Chicago Board of Trade, Chicago Board Options Exchange, and Chicago Mercantile Exchange, Chicago has established itself as the trading capital of the US. Active on leading US exchanges, Optiver’s Chicago office trades a wide range of products from listed derivatives to cash equities, ETFs, bonds and foreign exchange.

Our differences are our edge. Optiver does not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, sex, gender identity, sexual orientation, age, physical or mental disability, or other legally protected characteristics.

Overview:

You’ll work directly with traders to solve the core problems that drive our trading. This role is fully embedded on the desk, owning systems and workflows end-to-end across the stack—from real-time trading infrastructure to internal tools and analytics. 

Unlike more specialized roles, you’ll operate across a wide range of challenges: building new trading logic, improving existing systems, developing tools to support decision-making, and scaling infrastructure as strategies evolve. The problems are fast-moving and often ambiguous, requiring close collaboration with traders and a strong sense of ownership. 

This is a high-impact role where your work directly influences trading performance, and where success comes from quickly understanding problems, building solutions, and iterating in production.

Technology at Optiver:

At Optiver we pride ourselves on being real engineers, not just coders. Our engineers work closely with traders to identify the business problems we face and determine how they should be solved. We apply a disciplined and scientific approach. We engineer simple, well-architected solutions that meet the dynamic needs of our traders. Our passion is to solve problems which really matter to the business, and we take pride in the quality of our solutions.

What you’ll do:

• Work side-by-side with traders to identify, prioritize, and solve high-impact problems
• Build and maintain systems across the stack, including trading logic, infrastructure, and internal tooling
• Rapidly prototype and iterate on solutions based on live feedback from the desk
• Take ownership of problems end-to-end: idea → design → implementation → production → iteration
• Operate effectively in a fast-paced, ambiguous environment where priorities evolve quickly 

What you’ll get:

You’ll join a culture of collaboration and excellence, surrounded by curious thinkers and creative problem-solvers. Motivated by a passion for continuous improvement, you’ll thrive in a supportive, high-performing environment alongside talented colleagues, collectively tackling some of the toughest challenges in the financial markets.

In addition, you’ll receive:

• The opportunity to work alongside best-in-class professionals from over 40 different countries
• A highly competitive compensation package
• Global profit-sharing pool and performance-based bonus structure
• 401(k) match up to 50%
• Comprehensive health, mental, dental, vision, disability, and life coverage
• 25 paid vacation days alongside market holidays
• Extensive office perks, including breakfast, lunch and snacks, regular social events, clubs, sporting leagues and more

Who you are:

• Experience leading complex, large-scale engineering projects
• Strong computer science fundamentals and sound engineering judgment
• Ability to balance innovative thinking with practical execution
• Proficient in systems-level programming (e.g., C, C++, Linux)
• A mindset of continuous improvement in a fast-paced environment
• Willingness to set technical direction, uphold engineering standards, and take ownership of outcomes 

Who we are:

Optiver is a tech-driven trading firm and leading global market maker. As one of the oldest market making institutions, we are a trusted partner of 70+ exchanges across the globe. Our mission is to constantly improve the market by injecting liquidity, providing accurate pricing, increasing transparency and acting as a stabilising force no matter the market conditions. With a focus on continuous improvement, we participate in the safeguarding of healthy and efficient markets for everyone who participates.

Optiver Chicago’s culture parallels the energetic city we’re immersed in. Home to the Chicago Board of Trade, Chicago Board Options Exchange, and Chicago Mercantile Exchange, Chicago has established itself as the trading capital of the US. Active on leading US exchanges, Optiver’s Chicago office trades a wide range of products from listed derivatives to cash equities, ETFs, bonds and foreign exchange.

Our differences are our edge. Optiver does not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, sex, gender identity, sexual orientation, age, physical or mental disability, or other legally protected characteristics.

Overview:

You’ll work on the systems and experiments that shape how we compete on exchanges. This role sits at the intersection of engineering, trading, and market microstructure research – focused on understanding what drives execution outcomes and turning those insights into production systems. 

You’ll collaborate with the team on the mandate is to understand exchange architecture end-to-end – from matching engines and order types to market data feeds and queue dynamics – and use that knowledge to design and evaluate new approaches to order placement and execution. 

Rather than purely optimizing for latency, this role is centered on research, experimentation, and iteration under uncertainty. You’ll explore ambiguous problems where the right answer isn’t known upfront, form hypotheses, and validate them through a combination of data analysis, simulation, and live experimentation. Working closely with researchers, you’ll continuously refine how we interact with markets based on real-world feedback.

Technology at Optiver:

At Optiver we pride ourselves on being real engineers, not just coders. Our engineers work closely with traders to identify the business problems we face and determine how they should be solved. We apply a disciplined and scientific approach. We engineer simple, well-architected solutions that meet the dynamic needs of our traders. Our passion is to solve problems which really matter to the business, and we take pride in the quality of our solutions.

What you’ll do:

• Operate in ambiguous, high-uncertainty environments, turning open-ended questions into a deep understanding of exchange microstructure
• Partner with researchers to design and run experiments that evaluate execution strategies and market behavior
• Build systems that enable rapid iteration on order placement, cancellation, and execution logic
• Translate research findings into robust production improvements
• Own the full loop: idea → experiment → analysis → implementation 

What you’ll get:

You’ll join a culture of collaboration and excellence, surrounded by curious thinkers and creative problem-solvers. Motivated by a passion for continuous improvement, you’ll thrive in a supportive, high-performing environment alongside talented colleagues, collectively tackling some of the toughest challenges in the financial markets.

In addition, you’ll receive:

• The opportunity to work alongside best-in-class professionals from over 40 different countries
• A highly competitive compensation package
• Global profit-sharing pool and performance-based bonus structure
• 401(k) match up to 50%
• Comprehensive health, mental, dental, vision, disability, and life coverage
• 25 paid vacation days alongside market holidays
• Extensive office perks, including breakfast, lunch and snacks, regular social events, clubs, sporting leagues and more

Who you are:

• Experience leading complex, large-scale engineering projects
• Strong computer science fundamentals and sound engineering judgment
• Ability to balance innovative thinking with practical execution
• Proficient in systems-level programming (e.g., C, C++, Linux)
• A mindset of continuous improvement in a fast-paced environment
• Willingness to set technical direction, uphold engineering standards, and take ownership of outcomes 

Who we are:

Optiver is a tech-driven trading firm and leading global market maker. As one of the oldest market making institutions, we are a trusted partner of 70+ exchanges across the globe. Our mission is to constantly improve the market by injecting liquidity, providing accurate pricing, increasing transparency and acting as a stabilising force no matter the market conditions. With a focus on continuous improvement, we participate in the safeguarding of healthy and efficient markets for everyone who participates.

Optiver Chicago’s culture parallels the energetic city we’re immersed in. Home to the Chicago Board of Trade, Chicago Board Options Exchange, and Chicago Mercantile Exchange, Chicago has established itself as the trading capital of the US. Active on leading US exchanges, Optiver’s Chicago office trades a wide range of products from listed derivatives to cash equities, ETFs, bonds and foreign exchange.

Our differences are our edge. Optiver does not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, sex, gender identity, sexual orientation, age, physical or mental disability, or other legally protected characteristics.

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As a Linux Engineering Team Lead, you will oversee the Linux Engineering team while remaining hands-on. You’ll help set technical direction and operational standards for Linux infrastructure supporting our real-time trading environment, development systems, research compute, and orchestration clusters. This role requires deep technical, operational, and people leadership skills to deliver results across the trading platform.

What You'll Do

• Lead and develop the Linux Engineering team; translate business needs into a clear roadmap and drive accountability across project and operational work

• Own the design, implementation, and operation of a global Linux infrastructure footprint with a focus on reliability, performance, and determinism

• Automate and standardize fleet operations (provisioning, configuration management, patching, upgrades, lifecycle) and improve monitoring/alerting to reduce time-to-detect and time-to-recover

• Establish operational excellence (runbooks, incident response, post-incident learning) and mentor engineers through debugging, performance tuning, and architecture decisions

• Partner across execution, network, and development teams to plan and coordinate changes; guide projects end-to-end and participate in an on-call rotation

What we're looking for

• Experience managing a team of people (e.g., conducting 1:1s, contributing to hiring or performance decisions)

• Extensive experience supporting a large-scale, global Linux server fleet and low-latency Linux systems

• Deep knowledge of Linux internals and systems-level debugging, with a track record of solving performance issues

• Demonstrated success in leadership and stakeholder management

• Strong problem-solving under pressure and a collaborative, customer-service mindset; financial trading industry experience preferred

Salary Range: $200,000 - $250,000, plus a discretionary bonus.

The discretionary bonus will be dependent upon the individuals skills, experience, qualifications, and firm performance. 

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Description

Our Software development team designs and builds low-latency systems that allow us to trade a diverse set of instruments across a wide range of financial marketplaces. This smaller, focused team comes with a high degree of responsibility and ownership. Our systems aim to be clean and understandable while achieving low latency and robust error tolerance. The libraries you work on will become the engine of our firm’s strategies.

Responsibilities

• Design and implement network connectivity, market data, and execution libraries for our automated trading software platform
• Work closely with our strategy teams to understand how they consume the software you write, so that you can anticipate and deliver future improvements
• Leverage libraries you've worked on to facilitate backtesting and post-trade analysis of our trading strategies
• Tune and refine existing components to improve performance, flexibility, and stability 
• Tools: C++, Python, Bash, Linux, SQL

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in a quantitative or technical field, plus five years of experience in software engineering, or a Master’s degree in a quantitative or technical field, plus three years of experience in software engineering 
• 2-3 years of previous experience with implementing low-latency connectivity at any major exchange in C++
• Strong knowledge of engineering software systems for low latency
• Excellent technical and non-technical communication skills
• Passion for the trading industry and interest in interfacing with multi-disciplinary trading teams
• Proficiency in C++, multithreading, IPC, automated testing and benchmarking, lock-free data structures, Linux, Solarflare network stack
• Experience with Python and/or Bash scripting, SQL, Gitlab CI/CD preferred
• This position requires physical presence and is on-site (no remote work)

Description

Our Software development team designs and builds low-latency systems that allow us to trade a diverse set of instruments across a wide range of financial marketplaces. This smaller, focused team comes with a high degree of responsibility and ownership. Our systems aim to be clean and understandable while achieving low latency and robust error tolerance. The libraries you work on will become the engine of our firm’s strategies.

Responsibilities

• Work with Sr. Software Developers to assist and learn all facets of software development applied to the automated trading business
• Develop, code, maintain, and support production-quality automated components for global proprietary trading
• Develop expertise in software development principles, C++, and high-performance automated trading systems
• Collaborate with technology, software, trading, business, and accounting/finance teams

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in a quantitative or technical field
• Passion for software and math applied to markets and trading
• Strong understanding of computing, math, probability, statistics, and finance is also preferred
• Programming proficiency and experience (C++, Python). Linux scripting is a plus
• Strong work ethic and willingness to do what it takes to get the job done
• Excellent technical and non-technical communication skills
• This position requires physical presence and is onsite (no remote work)

We are seeking a highly motivated, technically adept Senior Trade Support Engineer. In this high-impact role, you’ll collaborate directly with traders and developers to troubleshoot critical live trading issues, manage complex incidents, and ensure the stability and resilience of production trading systems. You will be relied upon for swift problem diagnosis under pressure, rapid resolutions to minimize system downtime, and clear, concise communication across both technical and non-technical teams. This is an individual contributor role for a seasoned engineer who relishes autonomy, thrives in urgent situations, and is eager to make meaningful contributions to a cutting-edge trading operation. 

WHAT YOU’LL DO

• Troubleshoot and resolve live trading system issues, minimizing downtime during outages and communicating status updates to stakeholders. 
• Monitor real-time production environments, respond to anomalies, and escalate as needed. 
• Automate workflows and manual processes using Linux, Python, and Bash to improve operational efficiency. 
• Collaborate directly with traders and developers to relay critical system and software issues, and assist with patching and recovery. 
• Contribute to process improvements, documentation, and knowledge-sharing materials (runbooks, FAQs, retrospectives). 
• Own incident response, follow up on lessons learned, and drive continuous improvement of support operations. 

WHAT WE’RE LOOKING FOR

• Advanced knowledge of Linux; strong troubleshooting experience via CLI. 
• Experience working within the options space and familiar with one core market CME-Cboe.
• Proficient in Python and Bash scripting for automation. 
• Experience querying databases (SQL, Snowflake). 
• Prior experience supporting trading systems in a high-pressure, fast-paced environment. 
• Excellent problem-solving and communication skills; comfortable working with technical and non-technical teams. 
• Detail-oriented with a proactive, ownership-driven approach to incident management and process improvement. 

Radix Trading is seeking an experienced Network Engineer to design, implement, and manage our complex, low-latency network infrastructure. In this pivotal role, you will operate with a high degree of independence to ensure the reliability, performance, and optimization of our global network. The ideal candidate has deep expertise in networking within fast-paced trading environments and excels at solving challenging technical problems at scale.

Responsibilities:

• Oversee the architecture, design, and strategy for research, enterprise and trading networks.
• Lead the design and deployment of trading network infrastructure, ensuring optimal performance and low latency.
• Troubleshoot complex network issues, ensuring minimal disruption to trading activities.
• Collaborate with internal teams to ensure network systems meet trading application requirements.
• Maintain and improve networking standards across the organization, adhering to best practices and regulatory requirements.
• Work with remote datacenter teams to troubleshoot complex hardware, cabling, and optics issues
• Develop scripts and tools for network automation and monitoring
• Lead initiatives to ensure network scalability and performance in line with business goals.
• Provide expert guidance on networking protocols.

Skills & Qualifications:

• Expert knowledge of networking and TCP/IP protocols.
• Experience with vendor hardware and operating systems, including Arista, Cisco, and Juniper 
• Proficiency in Python scripting for network automation.
• Strong knowledge of Unix/Linux network stack and command line tools. Experience with multicast design, especially in high-performance trading environments.
• Trading network experience is highly desired.
• Results-oriented, highly flexible, team player.
• Strong problem-solving skills and the ability to lead network projects.

Radix Trading is seeking a seasoned HPC Systems Engineer with a passion for Linux, HPC systems and research infrastructure to join us. This role requires the ability to quickly troubleshoot and resolve technical issues, navigate networking and system alerts, and collaborate with internal teams and external partners. The ideal candidate is a self-starter that has experience leading projects end-to-end, fluency in scripting languages, and a proven track record of solving complex technical problems.

Job Functions:

• Own monitoring and performance tuning across HPC applications, SLURM job scheduler, networking, storage, and hardware to optimize workload efficiency.
• Perform root-cause analysis to develop sustainable automated solutions.
• Support and troubleshoot alerts and errors with savvy communication skills to interact with external entities and internal counterparts.
• Keep up communication with new and existing external vendors on technical infrastructure work.
• Keep up communication with new and existing external business interfaces --- day-to-day operation, planning connectivity, and exchange upgrades.
• Oversee communication with others internally - project management across different functions to plan exchange upgrades, hardware refreshes, and other improvements/rollouts.
• Build out and support research, trading, and enterprise infrastructure.

Qualifications:

• 5+ years of HPC system administration/architecture including RHEL/CentOS/Rocky Systems
• Experience with job scheduler and resource management tools such as SLURM, Moab, or Torque
• Knowledge of network storage systems such as DDN, IBM SpectrumScale, NetApp, Weka, or Vast
• Knowledge of parallel file systems such as Lustre or Spectrum Scale (GPFS)
• Experience working with InfiniBand and high-speed Ethernet
• Hands-on experience with configuration management tools such as xCAT, Ansible, Salt, and Terraform
• Exposure to bare metal provisioning — including DHCP, DNS, PXE Boot
• Competence in Python, able to edit and create scripts

At Armis, our Sales Engineers (SE) serve as the linchpin of every prospect engagement. Working closely with our prospects to demonstrate the value of the Armis agentless platform via console demonstrations, proof-of-value deployments, and targeted training sessions.

What you'll do...

Work closely with our prospects to:

• Provide virtual and in-person technical demonstrations
• Deploy proof-of-value installations
• Lead technical training sessions based on POV findings
• Support marketing activities, conferences, speaking engagements
• Consistently and cogently address our prospects needs through astute verbal and written communication skills
• Thrive in a team-oriented culture through delivering a significant individual contribution while collaborating with and strengthening teammates
• Think critically, spanning the sales process through customer support, troubleshooting, and developing new use cases for internal and external consumption.
• Develop prospect facing documentation
• Expected to travel up to 40% of the time on average (can vary by region)

Education:

• BS degrees in computer science, MIS, or equivalent experience required

Experience:

• 5+ years experience in technical positions required (SE, Pre-Sales Engineer, Solutions Architect) ideally for a Cyber Security vendor
• 5+ years of experience in customer-facing or customer support positions
• Solid understanding of networking concepts and technologies
• A demonstrated track record of taking ownership of complex initiatives and producing successful outcomes
• Experience closing complex cyber security SaaS solutions with Enterprise Customers and supporting Sales AE's / RSM's.

Knowledge in one or more of the following:

• IoT, OT, IoMT
• Wireless technologies (WLCs, Meraki, Aruba, etc.)
• Linux Operating Systems
• Virtualized environments
• Network knowledge
• Utility Scripting (Python preferred)

About Gotion 

Gotion, Inc. is a leading manufacturer of advanced battery technologies, committed to driving the clean energy transition. As we scale operations in Illinois, we seek talented individuals to join our dynamic and innovative team. 

Position Overview 

We are seeking an experienced and bilingual IT Manager to lead our IT network infrastructure initiatives in Manteno, IL. This individual will play a critical role in designing, implementing, and maintaining a secure and efficient IT network, ensuring seamless operations across our facilities. Fluency in both English and at least business level Chinese is required to support communication with global teams and vendors. 

Key Responsibilities 

• Network Infrastructure Management: Design, deploy, and manage (Cisco)LAN/WAN, Wi-Fi, and VPN infrastructure, ensuring network performance and security. 

• Team Leadership: Lead a team of IT professionals, providing guidance and ensuring alignment with organizational goals for Helpdesk, MES and Infrastructure. 

• Cybersecurity: Implement and monitor security protocols to protect sensitive data and prevent breaches following group standards and provide feedback to HQ on issues.  

• Global Collaboration: Serve as a liaison between the U.S. and Chinese IT teams to ensure alignment on global IT strategies and standards and reviewing with leadership before implementing. 

• System Upgrades: Oversee upgrades to hardware, software, and networking equipment in alignment with business needs and to learn and support all company-specific software solutions including but not limited to researching, procuring, implementing, and maintaining all companywide software. 

• Vendor Management: Manage relationships with IT vendors, ensuring optimal service levels and cost efficiency. 

• Compliance: Ensure compliance (ISO27001,TISAX)with local and international regulations, including data protection and privacy laws (GRC) 
• Helpdesk Support: Provide escalation support for complex IT issues and ensure timely resolution. 

Qualifications 

• Bachelor’s degree in Information Technology, Computer Science, or a related field; a Master’s degree is a plus. 
• 7+ years of IT experience, with a focus on network management. 

• 3+ years in a leadership or managerial role. 

Technical Expertise: 

• Proficiency in managing Cisco, Juniper, or similar networking hardware. 

• knowledge Linux/Windows server and VMware 

• Strong knowledge of network security protocols, firewalls, and intrusion detection systems. 

• Familiarity with cloud-based solutions and hybrid IT environments. 

• Languages: Fluency in Chinese (Mandarin) and English (written and spoken) is mandatory for the international corporation

Soft Skills: 

• Strong leadership and project management skills. 

• Working closely with other department Managers to assess the growth needs and maintenance of the company’s network 

• Excellent communication and interpersonal abilities. 

• Problem-solving and analytical thinking. 

Responsibilities:

• Provision, configure, and support server, network, and desktop equipment.
• Mature the automation efforts of the lifecycle of a server, including onboarding, patching, and sunsetting.
• Provide technical support to traders and other office staff, with a strong focus on user satisfaction.
• Perform data center work, such as cabling, server install/decom, and part replacement.
• Monitor and respond to application, operating system, network and hardware events quickly. Enhance existing monitoring infrastructure as needed.
• Document new projects and procedures. Improve upon existing documentation where needed.
• Work with network, trading, and operations staff as part of daily trading and on projects.

Requirements:

• Pursuing a BS or MS degree in computer science, engineering, or IT with expected graduation in 2025/2026.
• Good understanding of computer science fundamentals, including operating systems, networking, and programming concepts.
• Experience with Linux and various Linux distributions. Examples: Debian, CentOS, Ubuntu.
• Bash and Python experience.
• Prior use and understanding of a version control system, such as Git.
• Familiarity with virtualization and containers, such as VMware and Docker.
• Experience with configuration management tools like Ansible, Terraform, Salt Stack, etc... are a plus.
• Basic client-side and server-side SQL (PostgreSQL, MySQL, etc...) and NoSQL (MongoDB, Redis, etc..) database experience is a plus.
• Ability to lift equipment weighing up to 50 pounds.
• Prior use of bare-metal server provisioning tools, such as Foreman, is a plus.
• Willingness to work occasional weekends and evenings.
• Ability to communicate clearly and stay calm under pressure.
• This position requires physical presence and is on-site (no remote work).

Description

Our Algorithmic Traders use their expert understanding of the financial markets and market microstructure to develop relative value arbitrage trading software and build and improve trading strategies. Our Senior Traders benefit from the resources and scale that our group can provide with its strong team and robust capital base to grow your effective trading strategy to the next level. The ideal candidate will have proven success and discipline in their trading strategies, excellent risk assessment and management, and strong proficiency and experience in applying programming skills in a fast-paced environment (C++, Python, Linux scripting).

Responsibilities

• Maintain expertise in market microstructure, tick data, and automated trading systems
• Build and maintain trading quantitative model tools and analytics
• Develop, code, maintain and support production quality automated trading softwares and strategies
• Improve strategies and trade execution by performing post trade analyses and developing prediction models.
• Manage a small group of dynamic Junior Traders and guide research and trading software development projects
• Mentor Junior Traders and promote their learning on the desk
• Help steer recruitment initiatives to advance the growth and development of the team

Requirements

• Bachelor's, Master's, or Doctorate in a technical field or pertinent industry experience
• Minimum five (5) years of work experience in the trading industry
• Programming proficiency and experience (C++, Python)
• Proficiency and experience in Linux scripting are a plus
• Passion for math and software applied to markets and trading
• Expert understanding of computing, math, probability, statistics, and finance
• Strong work ethic and willingness to do what it takes to get the job done
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills
• Ability to work within a team in a fast-paced environment
• This position requires physical presence and is onsite at our office in Chicago, IL

Description

Our Algorithmic Traders use their expert understanding of the financial markets and market microstructure to develop relative value arbitrage trading software and build and improve trading strategies. As a Junior Algorithmic Trader, you will have the opportunity to experience relative value arbitrage trading paired with innovative software. You will partner with Senior Traders to assist and learn all facets of automated trading. From researching and analyzing high-frequency tick data and trading performance, to building mathematical models and performing time series analysis, you will experience a deep dive into real-time trading and gain exposure to build your expertise. The ideal candidate is intellectually curious, technically analytical, and has the desire to learn and apply programming skills in a fast-paced environment (Python, C++). 

Responsibilities

• Work with Senior Algorithmic Traders to assist and learn all facets of automated trading
• Develop expertise in market microstructure, tick data, and automated trading systems
• Learn and master object-oriented programming languages (C++ and Python)
• Build and maintain trading quantitative model tools and analytics
• Develop, code, maintain and support production quality automated trading softwares and strategies
• Improve strategies and trade execution by performing post trade analyses and developing prediction models

Requirements

• Pursuing a Bachelor's, Master's, or Doctorate in a technical field such as but not limited to STEM or Finance with a graduation date between December 2024 and Spring 2025 or 1-2 years pertinent industry experience 
• Required courses: Data structures, Probability, Statistics and Linear Algebra
• Minimum major GPA of 3.5/4 or equivalent scale
• Proficiency and experience in object-oriented programming languages, C++, Python and/or Java preferred 
• Proficiency and experience in Linux scripting are a plus
• Demonstrated passion for markets, finance, and trading such as, but not limited to personal trading, participation in trading competitions, attendance at firm discover days, industry related student groups or clubs and/or prior internship experience preferred 
• Project or internship experience in data analysis, quantitative modeling and/or machine learning
• Passion for math and software applied to markets and trading
• Strong understanding of computing, math, probability, statistics, and finance
• Strong work ethic and willingness to do what it takes to get the job done
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills
• Ability to work within a team in a fast-paced environment
• This position requires physical presence and is onsite at our office in Chicago, IL

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Responsibilities

• Ownership over our data center infrastructure, tasked with all aspects of keeping it up and operating in an optimal and reliable manner
• Contacting third-party vendors about remote equipment installation and maintenance and then supervising those projects through completion
• Performing hardware installation and troubleshooting existing hardware
• Documenting both new and established procedures to establish and foster best practices firmwide
• Cooperating with other engineers to provide stable and secure deployments of new infrastructure components
• Working with network engineers to reliably upgrade and replace old network equipment
• Developing an automated provisioning system and keeping the inventory system up to date
• Troubleshooting software issues that might be related to hardware failures
• Providing in-office hardware support
• Working as part of an in-office team to collaborate directly with our experienced traders and technologists on brainstorming and implementing creative solutions to a wide range of problems

Requirements

• BA/BS/MS degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or related experience
• 2+ years of experience in related field
• Hands-on experience cabling, racking, and installing bare metal servers, network devices, and network cards
• Experience with remote management tools for servers (iDrac, iLO)
• Understanding of automated provisioning tools (PXE, Foreman) and ability to create installation files (kickstart, preseed)
• Experience with Linux at the administration level (Debian, CentOS)
• Working experience with Windows is a plus
• Practical knowledge of inventory tools (Netbox)
• Good understanding of monitoring tools (Icinga2, Grafana, ELK)
• Experience with infrastructure management tools (Ansible, Puppet)
• Good management skills with ticketing and documentation tools (Jira, Confluence)
• Experience with scripting and automation (Python, Bash or other) is a plus
• Experience in a low latency environment a strong plus, e.g., Solarflare, Onload, PTP

Additional Requirements

• Flexibility to occasionally work outside of core business hours and on weekends.
• Ability to travel and provide support to other regions occasionally as needed.
• This position requires physical presence and is onsite (no remote work)