Job Description
Empower Advanced Trading Systems @ Exchange with TRILLION $ Volume
This Amsterdam-based FinTech powerhouse is expanding its team with a Senior Systems Engineer to maintain, optimize, and automate its high-performance on-premises infrastructure.
You'll work on the low-latency trading platform, tackling deep Linux engineering challenges, automating provisioning, and ensuring bare-metal infrastructure and Kubernetes orchestration run seamlessly.
Key Responsibilities:
🔹 Ensure 24/7 availability of a complex trading infrastructure spanning bare-metal Linux and Kubernetes.
🔹 Architect and automate bare-metal provisioning and system configuration.
🔹 Investigate & resolve low-level Linux performance issues (networking, filesystem, kernel debugging).
🔹 Develop new tooling to optimize infrastructure, leveraging open-source technologies.
🔹 Participate in architectural discussions to ensure the platform remains cutting-edge.
🔹 On-call responsibilities: 1 week every 5.
This is your chance to work in a highly technical, fast-paced environment, shaping the future of high-performance trading infrastructure.
Why Choose This Company?
🚀 Work on bare-metal automation, high-performance tuning, and mission-critical infrastructure.
📈 Join a profitable, stable company, leading innovation in ultra-low-latency trading.
💰 Competitive salary package €90-120K, 13th-month bonus, pension, and performance bonuses.
🌟 Be part of a small, highly skilled team, taking ownership of key infrastructure projects.
⚙️ Contribute to a platform handling billions in trading volume daily.
Essential Experience:
✔️ 5+ years in Systems/Linux engineering.
✔️ Deep Linux expertise, including bare-metal provisioning and performance tuning.
✔️ Experience managing large-scale, complex on-prem infrastructure.
✔️ Configuration Management (Puppet, Chef, Salt).
Beneficial Experience:
➕ Kubernetes expertise (especially in on-premises environments).
➕ Experience in trading, finance, or other high-performance environments.
➕ Programming experience (Python, Golang) for automation & tooling.
📍 Location: Amsterdam (Hybrid: 1 day/week in office).
💰 Salary: €90-120K (incl. holiday allowance) + 13th-month bonus + pension + performance bonus.
✈ Relocation Support: Available.
📅 Start Date: ASAP.
Relevant technologies: Linux performance tuning, kernel debugging, PXE boot, infrastructure as code (IaC), CI/CD for infrastructure, ultra-low-latency systems, real-time trading infrastructure, high-frequency trading (HFT), networking (BGP, VXLAN, SR-IOV, DPDK, eBPF/XDP), and storage management (XFS, EXT4, ZFS, Btrfs, LVM).