Linux Engineering Team Lead

Chicago Trading Company
  • Chicago, IL
  • $200,000–$250,000 Per Year
  • Autofill and Review
9 days ago

Job Description

As a Linux Engineering Team Lead, you will oversee the Linux Engineering team while remaining hands-on. You'll help set technical direction and operational standards for Linux infrastructure supporting our real-time trading environment, development systems, research compute, and orchestration clusters. This role requires deep technical, operational, and people leadership skills to deliver results across the trading platform.

What You'll Do

  • Lead and develop the Linux Engineering team; translate business needs into a clear roadmap and drive accountability across project and operational work

  • Own the design, implementation, and operation of a global Linux infrastructure footprint with a focus on reliability, performance, and determinism

  • Automate and standardize fleet operations (provisioning, configuration management, patching, upgrades, lifecycle) and improve monitoring/alerting to reduce time-to-detect and time-to-recover

  • Establish operational excellence (runbooks, incident response, post-incident learning) and mentor engineers through debugging, performance tuning, and architecture decisions

  • Partner across execution, network, and development teams to plan and coordinate changes; guide projects end-to-end and participate in an on-call rotation

What we're looking for

  • Experience managing a team of people (e.g., conducting 1:1s, contributing to hiring or performance decisions)

  • Extensive experience supporting a large-scale, global Linux server fleet and low-latency Linux systems

  • Deep knowledge of Linux internals and systems-level debugging, with a track record of solving performance issues

  • Demonstrated success in leadership and stakeholder management

  • Strong problem-solving under pressure and a collaborative, customer-service mindset; financial trading industry experience preferred

Salary Range: $200,000 - $250,000, plus a discretionary bonus.

The discretionary bonus will be dependent upon the individuals skills, experience, qualifications, and firm performance.

Numbers & Facts

LocationChicago, IL
Salary$200,000–$250,000 Per Year

Skills

  • Configuration Managementunmatched
  • Customer Support/Serviceunmatched
  • Debugging Skillsunmatched
  • Financeunmatched
  • Incident Responseunmatched
  • Leadershipunmatched
  • Linux Operating Systemunmatched
  • Linux System Internals/Programmingunmatched
  • Mentoringunmatched
  • Multiplatform/Cross-Platformunmatched
  • On Callunmatched
  • Performance Tuning/Optimizationunmatched
  • Problem Solving Skillsunmatched
  • Realtime Operating Systemunmatched
  • Software Engineeringunmatched
  • Software Patchesunmatched
  • Team Lead/Managerunmatched
  • Team Playerunmatched
  • Time Managementunmatched
  • Vehicle Fleetsunmatched

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