HTCondor Engineer,
Saint Petersburg

Project Description

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Large US based hedge fund is searching for an engineer to maintain, monitor and enhance our Research HT Condor grid (> 100,000 slots) with a view to improving stability and accessibility of our HPC platform.

Thr Client develops and deploys systematic financial strategies across a variety of asset classes and global markets. We seek to produce high-quality predictive signals (alphas) through our proprietary research platform to employ financial strategies focused on exploiting market inefficiencies. Our teams work collaboratively to drive the production of alphas and financial strategies – the foundation of a sustainable, global investment platform.
Technologists at the client research, design, code, test and deploy projects while working collaboratively with researchers and portfolio managers. Our environment is relaxed yet intellectually intense. Our teams are lean and agile, which means rapid prototyping of products with immediate user feedback. We seek people who think in code, aspire to solve undiscovered computer science challenges and are motivated by being around like-minded people. In fact, of the 600 employees globally, approximately 500 of them code on a daily basis.
The client's success is built on a culture that pairs academic sensibility with accountability for results. Employees are encouraged to think openly about problems, balancing intellectualism and practicality. Great ideas come from anyone, anywhere. Employees are encouraged to challenge conventional thinking and possess a mindset of continuous improvement. That’s a key ingredient in remaining a leader in any industry.
Our goal is to hire the best and the brightest. We value intellectual horsepower first and foremost, and people who demonstrate an exceptional talent. There is no roadmap to future success, so we need people who can help us create it. Our collective intelligence will drive us there.

Responsibilities

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• Work within the team on the various products that the team supports
• Develop tools to improve our ability to rapidly deploy and effectively monitor services in a large-scale distributed environment.
• Work with teams to design, develop, and implement innovative software solutions related to the HTC and Grid Environments.
• Participate in periodic on-call duties
• Collaborate with peers both inside and outside your team.

Skills

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Must have

• Solid understanding of Linux
• Solid understanding of HTC principals
• Experience with HTC / Scheduling (Slurm, Condor, etc )
• Python coding of APIs and backend
• Experience with infrastructure as a code and related tools as Terraform (strongly preferred), Ansible, Packer
• Experience with CI/CD, GitLab (preferred), GitHub or Git
• PhD in Computer Science or quantitative field

Nice to have

Slurm experience
HTCondor
GCP
Celery
IBM LSF
Nomad
Agile development experience is a plus

Languages

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English: B2 Upper Intermediate

Relocation package

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