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title: 'Cloud Systems Engineer at Jump Trading'
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# Cloud Systems Engineer at Jump Trading

- **Company:** Jump Trading
- **Location:** Hong Kong, Singapore
- **Posted:** 2026-11-10
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-11-12
- **Apply:** https://www.jumptrading.com/hr/job?gh_jid=8370626

## Job description

Jump Trading Group is committed to world class research. We empower exceptional talents in Mathematics, Physics, and Computer Science to seek scientific boundaries, push through them, and apply cutting edge research to global financial markets. Our culture is unique. Constant innovation requires fearlessness, creativity, intellectual honesty, and a relentless competitive streak. We believe in winning together and unlocking unique individual talent by incenting collaboration and mutual respect.

At Jump, research outcomes drive more than superior risk adjusted returns. We design, develop, and deploy technologies that change our world, fund start-ups across industries, and partner with leading global research organizations and universities to solve problems. We are building a small, high-impact team to design and run infrastructure that operates outside Jump's primary environment. This is a broad remit: cloud, production systems, and HPC-style workloads all fall within scope, with sound security practices built in throughout. We are looking for a true generalist who can design systems from the ground up, operate them with little direction, and dig deep when things break.

What you’ll do:

- Design, build, and maintain cloud infrastructure that operates independently of Jump's on-premises environment.
- Architect resilient, reliable systems, with security considered as part of good design from the start.
- Build independent infrastructure and controls that strengthen Jump's overall resilience.
- Support production and HPC-style compute workloads in the cloud, including provisioning, scaling, performance, and cost.
- Own a wide range of systems end to end, from networking and identity to compute, storage, and monitoring.
- Lead root cause analysis on incidents until the true cause is found and fixed.
- Improve monitoring, logging, and alerting so problems are detected and resolved quickly.
- Apply infrastructure security best practices, including access management, secrets management, server hardening, and audit logging.
- Pivot quickly to whatever needs fixing across the infrastructure, balancing competing priorities with minimal oversight.
- Work with a globally distributed team to maintain high availability.
- Other duties as assigned or needed.

Skills you’ll need:

- Broad, hands-on experience as an infrastructure generalist, such as Linux administration, DevOps, systems engineering, or SRE.
- Deep understanding of Linux internals and networking fundamentals, including TCP/IP, DNS, TLS, HTTP, routing, and load balancing.
- Strong experience with at least one major cloud provider (AWS, GCP, or Azure), including networking, IAM, and compute services.
- Working knowledge of infrastructure security fundamentals, such as IAM, secrets management, system hardening, and logging/audit.
- A proven track record of troubleshooting complex systems and driving root cause analysis across multiple layers of the stack.
- Experience designing and architecting systems, not just operating them.
- Experience with infrastructure-as-code and configuration management tools such as Terraform, Ansible, or Salt.
- Experience with monitoring and alerting tools such as Prometheus, Alertmanager, or Grafana.
- Proficiency in Bash and Python scripting. Deep software engineering experience is not required.
- Comfort working in a flat, fast-paced team.
- Reliable and predictable availability.

Bonus points:

- Exposure to HPC environments or large-scale compute clusters.
- Experience with Kubernetes and containerized workloads.
- Experience with bare-metal and hybrid infrastructure.
- Additional depth in security, such as incident response or secure architecture design.
- Experience in trading, financial services, or other high-availability environments.

## About Jump Trading

## Company Overview
- **One-liner**: Jump Trading is a global proprietary trading firm that builds advanced algorithms, high-performance infrastructure, and research-driven strategies to trade across all major asset classes and time horizons.
- **Entity Type**: Private (Self-funded, no venture capital)
- **Headquarters**: Chicago, Illinois, United States
- **Founded**: 1999
- **Founders**: Not publicly disclosed (commonly cited as Paul Gurinas and Bill DiSomma, but not confirmed on company materials)

## Core Business
- **Primary Industry**: Financial Services – Proprietary Trading, Algorithmic Trading, High-Frequency Trading (HFT)
- **Target Customers**: Institutional (the firm trades exclusively for its own account; serves as a liquidity provider and market maker on global exchanges)
- **Mission Statement**: "We don’t chase what’s working. We build what works next." – Emphasis on first-principles research, continuous innovation, and building systems that stand up to real-world markets.

## Products & Services
Jump Trading does not sell commercial products; its offerings are internal capabilities that drive its trading business:
- **[Proprietary Trading Strategies]**: Research-driven strategies across equities, futures, options, cryptocurrencies, and fixed income, spanning multiple time horizons from microseconds to months.
- **[Technology Infrastructure]**: Custom hardware (ASICs, FPGAs), low-latency networking, distributed systems, and co-located compute environments in over 100 data centers near global exchanges.
- **[Research & AI/ML Platforms]**: Large-scale simulation, storage, and analytics platforms that power both trading and applied machine learning research, including live inference and fast iteration.
- **[Jump Crypto]**: A dedicated division for cryptocurrency trading, market making, and blockchain infrastructure (acquired Certus One in 2021).

## Market Standing
- **Valuation/Market Cap**: Not disclosed (private company)
- **Key Metric**: Annual revenue of approximately **$546 million** (LinkedIn estimate as of 2025)
- **Notable Investors/Partners**: Self-funded; no external investors. Key partners include major exchanges (CME, NYSE, etc.) and technology vendors.
- **Growth Signals**:
  - Headcount: 1,448 employees (LinkedIn, +29% YoY)
  - Active job postings: 44 (+528% YoY growth in postings)
  - 16 offices across 8 countries (US, UK, Singapore, China, India, Netherlands, Australia, Hong Kong, France)
  - Acquisition of Certus One (2021) and Darebiz (2021) to expand crypto and data capabilities

## Competitive Advantages
- **Proprietary Hardware & Software**: In-house ASIC, FPGA, and custom networking that deliver microsecond-level latency advantages.
- **Flat, High-Agency Culture**: Engineers and researchers have ownership from day one; decisions are fast and friction is low.
- **Talent Density**: Recruits heavily from top tech firms (Google, Citadel, Jane Street) and universities; alumni often move to other elite trading firms.
- **Cross-Disciplinary Integration**: Traders, engineers, and researchers work side-by-side, enabling rapid iteration from research to production.
- **Long Track Record**: 25+ years of consistent profitability and adaptation across market cycles.

## Strategic Focus
- **AI/ML Expansion**: Scaling machine learning research for both trading and infrastructure, with dedicated pre-training research teams.
- **Crypto & Digital Assets**: Growing Jump Crypto as a major market maker and infrastructure provider in blockchain ecosystems.
- **Global Infrastructure**: Building out additional data centers, co-location sites, and microwave/network links to reduce latency.
- **Talent Acquisition**: Aggressively hiring engineers, researchers, and operations staff to maintain competitive edge.

## Why Work Here
- **Culture**: "A (genuinely) flat structure that keeps decisions fast and friction low." Engineers see the impact of their work in real time.
- **Work Environment**: Hybrid/office-based with major hubs in Chicago, New York, Austin, London, Singapore, and others. On-site presence expected for most technical roles.
- **Engineering Focus**: Build custom hardware, low-latency software (C++, Python, Go, Rust), and large-scale distributed systems. "You can design something on Monday and see it in production by Friday."
- **Mentorship**: Senior leaders still write code, test models, and trade. Interns and new grads receive direct mentorship.
- **Compensation**: Not disclosed, but proprietary trading firms are known for industry-leading total compensation (base + bonus).
- **Perks**: Not detailed, but the firm invests heavily in tools, infrastructure, and talent development.

## Sources
1. [jumptrading.com – Company Overview](https://www.jumptrading.com/)
2. [jumptrading.com – Careers](https://www.jumptrading.com/careers)
3. [jumptrading.com – Technology](https://www.jumptrading.com/technology)
4. [jumptrading.com – Culture & HR](https://www.jumptrading.com/hr/overview)
5. [LinkedIn – Jump Trading Company Page](https://www.linkedin.com/company/jump-trading)

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