Senior Site Reliability Engineer

Tower Research Capital, a leading high-frequency proprietary trading firm founded in 1998, seeks a skilled Senior Site Reliability Engineer (SRE) to join our global SRE Team in Singapore or Hong Kong.

Responsibilities 

• Supporting and maintaining the firm’s Linux trading infrastructure on a day to day operational basis
• Providing Level II support:
• Emergency response
• Executing planned changes and deployment
• Advanced profiling and troubleshooting of performance issues
• Participating in an on-call rotation, early and weekend shifts
• Contributing to tools and systems to fully automate the provisioning, configuration and monitoring of thousands of servers
• Interacting with both Trading and Core Engineering teams on regular basis
• Lead designs of major software components and systems to improve the availability, latency, and efficiency of Tower's trading services
• Providing guidance to other team members on managing the performance of trading critical services and building automation to prevent problem recurrence.
• Mentoring and training other team members on design techniques and coding standards, and to cultivate innovation and collaboration within and across teams.
• Managing individual projects priorities, deadlines, and deliverables

Qualifications

• Strong experience in a Linux production environment
• Expert knowledge of Python and Bash
• Prior experience in software engineering
• Daily use of and contribution to developing automation and monitoring tools, such as configuration management, source control, CI/CD, automated deployment
• Good understanding of OS concepts and internals of Linux
• Working knowledge of Intel-based hardware and server components
• Understanding of server-side networking and typical network protocols
• Experience architecting, developing, and troubleshooting systems
• Systematic problem-solving approach, coupled with excellent communication skills and a sense of ownership and drive

Preferred Qualifications

• Participation in open source or personal projects
• Experience in High Frequency Trading, Quantitative Finance or low latency environment is preferred but not a requirement

 Candidates should also be: 

• Organized, responsible, and meticulous
• Strong communicator
• Proactive and willing to take initiative
• Able to manage and prioritize multiple tasks
• Excellent at supporting Linux Production environments
• Able to work both within a team and independently

Benefits

Tower continues to enhance the in-house trading system and strategies that have positioned the firm as a leader in the thriving field of quantitative trading. While Tower offers challenges and rewards rivaling those of any Wall Street firm, Tower’s cubicle-free workplace, jeans-clad workforce, and well-stocked kitchens reflect the premium the firm places on quality of life. Benefits include:

• Competitive salary and discretionary bonuses
• 5 weeks of paid vacation per year
• Breakfast, lunch, and snacks on a daily basis
• International medical insurance
• Free gym membership
• For employees ineligible to participate in the CPF, the cash equivalent of the employer’s CPF contribution
• Free events and workshops
• Donation matching program

Tower Research Capital is an equal opportunity employer.