About this role
Job title: Campus Systems Engineer (Intern)
About the Role Jump's technology operations internship is a 10-week program within frontline technology teams responsible for managing, monitoring, and improving the real-time trading environment. Interns will work with systems and network engineers to gain hands-on experience across the trading platform and technology stack, with a path toward full-time opportunities at Jump.
What You'll Do
- Work with traders, operations, exchanges, and developers to optimize the trading environment and investigate and solve system issues.
- Proactively monitor the overall health and performance of the trading platform.
- Analyze and troubleshoot complex system, software, and networking infrastructure issues.
- Design, implement and optimize network infrastructure for proprietary low latency trading applications at various data centers throughout the world.
- Build automation to manage and improve the production trading environment.
- Work closely with risk management and trading teams to coordinate changes and manage incidents.
- Manage and assess operational risk of change control into the production environment.
- Define and document process and procedure.
- Other duties as assigned or needed.
What We're Looking For
- Major in Computer Science/Engineering, Information Systems, or related technical field.
- Experience working with Linux/UNIX OS including advanced commands and shell scripts.
- Practical working knowledge of Python.
- Understanding of networking concepts such as routing, multicast, Ethernet.
- A rigorous, detail-oriented approach to operations.
- Ability to operate and communicate clearly under pressure.
- Desire to work in a collaborative, team environment with a positive can do attitude.
- Reliable and predictable availability.
- No finance or economics study or work experience required.
Nice to Have
- Interest in growing knowledge of systems and networking, understanding of modern trading at scale, and practical DevOps-based software engineering skills.
Compensation & Benefits
- The estimated base salary for this role is $200,000-$250,000 per year.