Systems Engineer

WorldQuant develops and deploys systematic financial strategies across a broad range of asset classes and global markets. We seek to produce high-quality predictive signals (alphas) through our proprietary research platform to employ financial strategies focused on market inefficiencies. Our teams work collaboratively to drive the production of alphas and financial strategies – the foundation of a balanced, global investment platform.

WorldQuant is built on a culture that pairs academic sensibility with accountability for results. Employees are encouraged to think openly about problems, balancing intellectualism and practicality. Excellent ideas come from anyone, anywhere. Employees are encouraged to challenge conventional thinking and possess an attitude of continuous improvement.

Our goal is to hire the best and the brightest. We value intellectual horsepower first and foremost, and people who demonstrate an outstanding talent. There is no roadmap to future success, so we need people who can help us build it.

Technologists at WorldQuant research, design, code, test and deploy firmwide platforms and tooling while working collaboratively with researchers and portfolio managers. Our environment is relaxed yet intellectually driven. We seek people who think in code and are motivated by being around like-minded people.

The Role: We are seeking an exceptionally talented engineer to join our Linux infrastructure team. As a member of the team, you will collaborate closely with application developers to translate business requirements into technical solutions. Effective communication with a distributed team to handle requests and incidents from high-profile clients is essential. Additionally, you will participate in the development and maintenance of the team's configuration management system.  Knowledge of Linux kernel internals, networking, and performance tuning is a crucial requirement.

What You'll Do:

• Support and maintain the firm's Linux platform as part of a globally distributed engineering team.
• Demonstrate a strong sense of task and mission ownership, acting as a liaison between regions.
• Troubleshoot issues such as packet loss, storage and network latency, and instability.
• Proactively understand internal clients' needs and effectively communicate them to leadership both regionally and globally.
• Identify risks, develop contingency plans, and implement them.
• Monitor the performance and health of critical computing environments.
• Drive or assist in fixing advanced system and network issues involving Linux, complex routing, switching schemes, and network protocols, across various platforms (e.g., Slurm, Kubernetes, Salt, Grafana, etc).
• Participate in occasional (monthly) on-call responsibilities and support on-call staff during their shifts.
• Exhibit a strong desire to learn and grow skills independently and from senior team members, and maintain training materials and documentation.

What You'll Bring:

• Excellent communication skills, with the ability to engage respectfully and professionally with individuals and teams at varying levels of seniority.
• A positive and professional attitude when interacting with clients and management during incidents.
• Strong understanding of Linux system internals, kernel operations, memory management, sockets, interrupts, etc.
• Strong knowledge of storage technologies, including Pure, Lightbits, GPFS, NFS, and NetApp
• Basic or advanced knowledge of networking and storage.
• Solid understanding of network protocols and how the kernel handles them.
• Proficiency in automating manual processes using Python, shell scripting, or other high-performance interpreted languages.
• Ability to automate infrastructure tasks or a strong willingness to learn and participate in development.
• A commitment to expanding your knowledge base, collaborating across areas, and contributing to a strong and cohesive team within the region and beyond.

What We Offer:

• Competitive compensation package 
• Core benefits include: premium private health insurance and life insurance with savings plan  
• Support for every aspect of life through Employee Assistance Program and fully covered sick leave 
• Strong culture of learning and development: training courses, library, guest speakers, share and learn events, global conferences 
• Regular offsite team buildings, annual conferences and occasional global summits – opportunity to travel and connect with our local and global teams 

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