Staff Software Engineer Job

Responsible for reviewing Grafana charts of system and application metrics, tweaking configurations on market data feed handlers, using our Kubernetes infrastructure to horizontally scale a key service, or collaborating with our infrastructure team on a new, cloud native service to introduce to our stack. Regularly participate in and contribute to regular architecture cadences, drive discussions and decisions on coding standards and practices, mentor other engineers and help reinforce and improve PEAK6’s engineering culture. Responsible for: Consuming and distributing high frequency market data feeds; Building tools and practices to allow all teams to effectively manage their services on a cloud native stack; Advocating and drive our continuous integration and delivery processes; Creating improvements in stability, performance, and scalability across major business-critical systems; Optimizing and monitoring critical path performance; and troubleshooting production issues quickly and efficiently.

Requirements – Bachelor’s or foreign degree equivalent in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or related field and 2 years of experience in the job offered or in software engineering. Special skills – Experience in the trading or finance industry, building distributed systems and Cloud Native technologies, Docker and Kubernetes. Position is based in Chicago office with option tooccasionally work from home office in Chicago area.