Build Systems Engineer - DevOps | Development Tools and Components | Experienced Hire

Build Systems / DevOps Engineer

Susquehanna is actively recruiting a Build Systems / DevOps Engineer for our Development Tools and Components team.

This team supports Susquehanna's internal software developers by building, operating, and evolving enterprise-grade developer tooling platforms. The team is responsible not only for enabling development workflows, but also for owning the architecture, reliability, and long-term sustainability of the tooling ecosystem.

We're looking for someone with a background in development tooling infrastructure, platform ownership, and systems architecture.

In this role, you will:

• Architect, implement, and maintain highly available, scalable, and maintainable build and deployment infrastructure
• Own and evolve enterprise-scale developer tooling platforms such as GitLab, TeamCity, Artifactory, and Octopus Deploy as long-term, business-critical services
• Build and manage shared, on-prem infrastructure using tools like Kubernetes, Docker, Ansible, etc.
• Provide stewardship over a large and ever evolving set of core components
• Develop custom tools and extensions
• Establish and maintain reliability, observability, and operational excellence across tooling platforms (monitoring, alerting, SLAs, incident response, etc.)
• Administer and maintain existing tool chains on multiple versions of Linux and Windows
• Partner with engineering teams to guide adoption and best practices, acting as a subject matter expert for developer tooling
• Participate in support rotations and provide operational support for critical systems
• Maintain version control platform for the entire company

What we're looking for:

• Bachelor's degree in Engineering, Information Technology, Computer Science, or related discipline (relevant technical experience may substitute for education)
• 5+ years of experience owning and operating developer infrastructure or platform engineering systems at scale
• 5+ years of experience with any high-level programming languages (C++, c#, python)
• Proven experience managing and evolving enterprise-grade developer tooling ecosystems (e.g., GitLab, TeamCity, Artifactory, Octopus Deploy)
• Strong background in systems design and solutions architecture
• Experience supporting on-prem or hybrid infrastructure, including containerized environments (Kubernetes, Docker, etc.)
• Strong experience with Linux systems administration
• Experience with infrastructure as code and configuration management tools like Ansible, Puppet, Chef, Salt, etc.
• Experience with CMake, GCC Compiler Collection, and/or GNU make
• Knowledge of the compilation and linking process for C/C++, including the ability to resolve dependencies
• Thorough understanding of full life-cycle development methodologies
• Experience with creating packages for various package managers
• Experience with cloud environments is a plus

About Susquehanna

Susquehanna is a global quantitative trading firm powered by scientific rigor, curiosity, and innovation. Our culture is intellectually driven and highly collaborative, bringing together researchers, engineers, and traders to design and deploy impactful strategies in our systematic trading environment. To meet the unique challenges of global markets, Susquehanna applies machine learning and advanced quantitative research to vast datasets in order to uncover actionable insights and build effective strategies. By uniting deep market expertise with cutting-edge technology, we excel in solving complex problems and pushing boundaries together.

We are experts in trading essentially all listed financial products and asset classes, with a focus on derivatives trading. Through market making and market taking, we handle millions of trading transactions around the world every day, providing liquidity and ensuring competitive prices for buyers and sellers. 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.