Jane Street is hiring a Linux Engineer in IT and Systems Engineering — New York, New York, United States. The overview below is synthesized from the employer posting on janestreet.com: factual requirements and scope are preserved, but prose is rewritten with editorial context. Verify details and apply via the employer link.
About the Position
Company context from the listing:
Our goal is to give you a real sense of what it's like to work at Jane Street full time while also providing a truly unparalleled educational experience. As an intern, you'll be paired with full-time employees who act as mentors, collaborating with you on real-world projects we actually need done.
As a Linux Engineering intern, you'll work side by side with full-timers to learn how we build and maintain the critical infrastructure underlying our firm's technology, including our production trading systems. Our work is hugely varied, both in the technical areas we work on and the ways we work.
During the program you'll spend the majority of your time working on a project, mentored closely by the full-time employees who designed it. Each project is carefully picked to challenge and develop both your in-depth understanding of Linux systems and your software engineering skills, both while delivering real value that is relevant to the challenges the firm is facing right now.
Alongside your project work and classes, you will also get to experience real-time operational work alongside experienced full-timers. This is a unique opportunity to see how our team interacts with almost every other group: resolving emerging issues in our production infrastructure, seeing what happens when things do go wrong, and helping us perform comprehensive root-cause analyses to ensure we learn from such mishaps.
Learn more about Jane Street's internship program here.
About You
Company context from the listing:
If you've never thought about a career in finance, you're in good company. Many of us were in the same position before working here.
- Knowledgeable about operating system fundamentals and computer architecture
- Experienced with systems programming concepts like sockets, virtual memory, and the process life cycle
- Able to understand network protocols at a basic level
- Comfortable at the command-line of a Linux machine, whether that’s from coursework, time spent as a systems administrator for your campus computer lab, side projects, etc.
- Fluent with basic introspection and troubleshooting common aspects of a Linux system (e.g. system health as a whole, individual processes, checking logs, etc.)
- Someone who solves problems by writing code (in any language) and is invested in robust software engineering
- Intellectually curious, collaborative, and eager to learn (including from mistakes)
- Humble and unafraid to ask questions
- A strong communicator
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