Overview

About SIG

SIG is a quantitative trading firm founded by a group of friends who share a passion for strategic games and optimal decision making. We have incorporated this approach into our culture, where you will find relentless problem solvers in trading, technology, and research. From offices around the world, our employees work collaboratively and are driven by the desire to achieve winning results together.

What we do

We are experts in trading essentially all listed financial products and asset classes, with a focus on options trading. We handle millions of trading transactions around the world every day, providing liquidity and ensuring competitive prices for buyers and sellers. How? We create expertise within each of our core disciplines: Trading, Technology, and Quant Research. While our presence in the market is broad, our trading desks are highly specialized, allowing for a deep understanding of unique drivers of each asset class.

Team Overview

Our Production Engineering team plays a critical role in maintaining our trading environment. This team is responsible for the monitoring and management of our large hardware environment, always looking for new ways to improve our monitoring capabilities. As a part of this team, you’ll have the opportunity to work closely with trading strategy and infrastructure development teams as you deploy and configure new strategies and technologies. You’ll have the opportunity to develop a range of tools used for monitoring, automation, configuration management and job management within our key trading platform.

SIG Engineers Are:

• Able to execute on ideas quickly
• Committed to innovation
• Focused on the entire technical stack with an eye for building a stable, scalable, optimized environment with minimized risk
• Inquisitive and curious about how applications communicate with each other across multiple discipline teams
• Passionate about technology and interested in exploring new technologies to find the optimal solution
• Strong object oriented software developers

By integrating sophisticated coding techniques with innovative engineering ideas, we design and optimize systems that can process massive amounts of data while still ensuring high performance and stability. Working with traders and quants, our systems engineers, network architects, technical analysts and software developers create industry-leading technical solutions.

What we’re looking for

What we’re looking for:

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Mathematics or related discipline
• Experience with C#, Python, or other Object Oriented Programming Languages
• Willingness and ability to work in all phases of the Software Development Life Cycle.
• Supporting the systems infrastructure, trading applications, database teams, and/or developer groups by diagnosing systems problems, recommending solutions, and implementing initiatives
• Troubleshooting systems & reducing our time to resolution by working directly with engineering teams to improve log ingestion pipelines, job scheduling, and performance monitoring
• Maintaining CI/CD infrastructure and coordinating daily system level changes, in both Windows and Linux environments
• Utilizing scripting languages (including PowerShell, Bash, and Python) to automate repetitive tasks including system testing, deployments, maintenance, and management
• Ability to meet deadlines and work well under pressure in a fast-paced team environment. 

SIG does not accept unsolicited resumes from recruiters or search firms. Any resume or referral submitted in the absence of a signed agreement will become the property of SIG and no fee will be paid.