Senior Linux Engineer (Linux / Python) - Financial Services Industry - Low Latency

Senior Bare Metal Linux Engineer (Low Latency) - Financial Services

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Department: Infrastructure

Location: Manhattan, NY (4 days a week on-site) Must live local or we are willing to move to the NYC area on the first day of hire.

Salary: OPEN Note - This role needs someone who can handle Linux at scale.

Position Overview: We are seeking a Senior Linux Infrastructure Engineer with expertise in Linux, compute, and storage systems to join our team in Manhattan. In this role, you will design, build, and manage infrastructure platforms that scale with business growth. You'll work across bare metal, hypervisors, containers, and public cloud environments, ensuring high performance and reliability. Your day-to-day work will involve system installation and configuration, performance optimization, monitoring and alerting, automation, and tool development. This hands-on role requires technical depth and collaboration across teams.

Key Responsibilities

• Manage systems at scale through standardization, automation, testing, and monitoring
• Define and enforce infrastructure standards for source control, testing, CI/CD, OS, patches, and configuration management
• Support a distributed compute environment and multi-petabyte storage platforms
• Install, configure, and monitor RHEL-based Linux systems
• Troubleshoot hardware and software issues across the full stack
• Partner with stakeholders to prioritize and deliver both short-term and long-term objectives

Required Qualifications

• 5+ years of experience in infrastructure engineering with strong Linux administration expertise
• Proficiency with configuration management tools (Chef, Ansible, or similar)
• Hands-on experience with distributed storage systems and protocols (NFS, GPFS, WEKA)
• Programming skills in Python or another modern language (Go, Rust, etc.)
• Knowledge of modern development practices (version control, agile, CI/CD)
• Experience with observability tools (Elasticsearch, Logstash, Kibana, Datadog, Prometheus, Grafana)
• Familiarity with cloud providers (AWS, GCP)
• Strong problem-solving skills in fast-paced environments
• Bachelor's degree in Engineering or a related technical discipline
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills

What We Offer

• Exposure to large-scale compute and storage challenges
• A collaborative technical team environment
• Continuous learning and professional growth opportunities