As a Linux Engineering Team Lead, you will oversee the Linux Engineering team while remaining hands-on. You'll help set technical direction and operational standards for Linux infrastructure supporting our real-time trading environment, development systems, research compute, and orchestration clusters. This role requires deep technical, operational, and people leadership skills to deliver results across the trading platform.
What You'll Do
- Lead and develop the Linux Engineering team; translate business needs into a clear roadmap and drive accountability across project and operational work
- Own the design, implementation, and operation of a global Linux infrastructure footprint with a focus on reliability, performance, and determinism
- Automate and standardize fleet operations (provisioning, configuration management, patching, upgrades, lifecycle) and improve monitoring/alerting to reduce time-to-detect and time-to-recover
- Establish operational excellence (runbooks, incident response, post-incident learning) and mentor engineers through debugging, performance tuning, and architecture decisions
- Partner across execution, network, and development teams to plan and coordinate changes; guide projects end-to-end and participate in an on-call rotation
What we're looking for
- Experience managing a team of people (e.g., conducting 1:1s, contributing to hiring or performance decisions)
- Extensive experience supporting a large-scale, global Linux server fleet and low-latency Linux systems
- Deep knowledge of Linux internals and systems-level debugging, with a track record of solving performance issues
- Demonstrated success in leadership and stakeholder management
- Strong problem-solving under pressure and a collaborative, customer-service mindset; financial trading industry experience preferred
Salary Range: $200,000 - $250,000, plus a discretionary bonus.
The discretionary bonus will be dependent upon the individuals skills, experience, qualifications, and firm performance.