Experienced Software Engineer - Security

Requirements

• Required:
• Strong Python programming
• Ability to debug and analyze problems quickly
• Ability to learn at a fast pace and apply new skills effectively
• Strong grasp of computer science fundamentals and software design patterns
• Solid understanding of Linux/UNIX operating systems
• Interest in and awareness of security best practices
• Preferred:
• Understanding of Debian operating system
• Familiarity with systems configuration management and monitoring technologies
• Familiarity with continuous integration and continuous deployment tools and processes
• Understanding of networking protocols
• Profile
• BS and/or MS in computer science or a related field
• 2+ years of relevant experience, including programming in Python
• Experience using automation to solve problems and improve process efficiency
• Acts effectively as a team player, but also works well independently
• Skilled at juggling multiple tasks while maintaining meticulous attention to detail
• Familiarity with open-source software
• Culture
• Hudson River Trading (HRT) brings a scientific approach to trading financial products. We have built one of the world's most sophisticated computing environments for research and development. Our researchers are at the forefront of innovation in the world of algorithmic trading.

Benefits

Additional Information

The Systems Development team builds and maintains the platform that is shared by all Systems teams to provision, monitor, and manage HRT's server and network infrastructure. As a Systems Software Engineer with a focus on Security, your main focus will be tool development in Python and Go to engineer creative solutions to security challenges. You'll improve and integrate our existing tools and libraries across the platform, as well as design and build new ones to make trading, research, installation, and monitoring systems easier to manage, more secure, and more reliable. Strong Python skills and development experience are required, along with Unix experience and interest in the security space. This role offers a unique opportunity to make a significant impact on a critical part of our existing and growing infrastructure. Your responsibilities will vary, but a typical day in the life might look like: Building and maintaining tools and software features to automate systems engineering workflows related to secure machine provisioning, monitoring, metrics collection, maintenance, secrets management, and network configuration Troubleshooting software bugs on a fleet of Linux machines, including application, network, operating system, and/or kernel issues Writing configuration management code to build, deploy, and maintain new services Helping to set the general direction for the Systems Python platform Working across HRT's engineering teams to help create solutions to a variety of security challenges

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