About this role
About the Role Jump Trading Group's Systems Engineering Internship is a 10-week program in Technology Operations. Interns work with frontline technology teams responsible for managing, monitoring, and improving a real-time trading environment, gaining exposure to systems, networking, and DevOps-oriented software engineering. The program is designed to identify top talent for future full-time opportunities and to build practical skills in modern trading at scale. What You'll Do
- Systems Engineer interns will 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 in collaboration with the technology organization.
- Design, implement and optimize network infrastructure for proprietary low-latency trading applications at various data centers worldwide.
- Build automation to manage and improve the production trading environment.
- Work 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 processes and procedures.
- 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, and 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.