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.

Requirements

• Support and maintain the firm’s Linux platform as part of a globally distributed engineering team.
• 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.

Benefits

• 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