Jump Trading

Financial Services

LeadSiteReliabilityEngineer

$175–200k Chicago, Illinois, United States Remote Friendly
Market Sentiment
HIGH DEMAND

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The Brief

“Lead Site Reliability Engineer at Jump Trading. Skills: Site Reliability Engineering, Production Infrastructure, Automation. Manage engineers. Mentor engineers”

What You'll Achieve.

Increase resilience; Reduce downtime; Reduce operational toil

Industry & Context.

Financial Services
Problems you'll solve

Root cause analysis

What They're Looking For.

Must Have

Proven leadership experience, Managed people across distributed teams, Solving reliability challenges, Strategic thinking skills, Tackling complex problems, Programming skills in Python, Go, or equivalent

Nice to Have

Experience in large-scale production environments

What You'll Do.

Architect monitoring systems

Implement monitoring systems

Architect alerting systems

Implement alerting systems

Architect automation frameworks

Implement automation frameworks

Oversee incident management

Improve incident management

Oversee change management

Improve change management

Improve post-incident review

Identify sources of toil

Eliminate sources of toil

Partner with engineering teams

Partner with networking teams

Partner with trading teams

Investigate performance issues

Optimize for throughput

Influence strategic direction

Influence tooling roadmap

Influence infrastructure scaling

Influence vendor partnerships

How You'll Work.

Team & Collaboration

Distributed teams; Engineering teams; Networking teams; Trading teams; Multiple regions

Process & Methodology

Roadmap planning

Full Job Description

Jump Trading Group is committed to world class research. We empower exceptional talents in Mathematics, Physics, and Computer Science to seek scientific boundaries, push through them, and apply cutting edge research to global financial markets. Our culture is unique. Constant innovation requires fearlessness, creativity, intellectual honesty, and a relentless competitive streak. We believe in winning together and unlocking unique individual talent by incenting collaboration and mutual respect. At Jump, research outcomes drive more than superior risk adjusted returns. We design, develop, and deploy technologies that change our world, fund start-ups across industries, and partner with leading global research organizations and universities to solve problems. CORE (Central Ops and Reliability Engineering) is the Production Infrastructure team responsible for operating and improving Jump’s production trading environment. The team combines deep operational ownership with software and reliability engineering practices to support production systems, drive incident and change management, improve observability and deployment workflows, and reduce operational toil across a fast-moving global trading platform. What You’ll Do: As Lead Site Reliability Engineer in CORE, you will both manage and mentor engineers across teams and contribute directly to key projects, balancing leadership responsibilities with hands-on work. Design & Build: Architect and implement high-performance monitoring and alerting systems, real-time packet/flow analysis tooling, and automation frameworks for managing Jump’s global production footprint. Lead Operational Maturity: Oversee and improve incident management, change management, and post-incident review processes to increase resilience and reduce downtime. Drive Efficiency: Identify and eliminate sources of operational toil through automation and tooling. Collaborate Globally: Partner with engineering, networking, and trading teams in multiple regions

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