Linux Engineer
Core
Intern role focused on building and maintaining critical infrastructure for production trading systems, working at the OS, firmware, and hardware layers.
Role type
Linux Engineering Intern
Builds
Production trading systems infrastructure, monitoring systems, automation tools, and diagnostic systems
Domain
Financial technology / High-frequency trading infrastructure / Operating Systems
Deliverable
production ML models | product features | infrastructure
Required skills
Linux command-line proficiency, systems programming (sockets, virtual memory, process lifecycle), network protocol understanding, OS fundamentals, computer architecture, troubleshooting, code-based problem solving
Preferred skills
Experience with file system implementations, TCP diagnostics, infrastructure provisioning, root-cause analysis
Technologies
Linux, open source software, in-house software
Responsibilities
Develop and maintain production trading system infrastructure, investigate performance issues from application to hardware layers, fix kernel bugs, respond to datacenter incidents, analyze monitoring data, build automation for manual workflows, perform root-cause analyses on production issues
Seniority
Intern, mentored by full-time employees