Platform Engineer

Grasshopper is a quantitative trading technology provider based in Singapore, and is the holding company of Grasshopper Asset Management. Our state-of-the-art technology, built from the ground up in-house, puts us at the forefront of developments in electronic trading. An unbroken record of consistency and profitability is underpinned by firm values of curiosity, empowerment and flexibility.

• Be responsible for managing the on-prem and cloud-based server fleet.
• Tuning and optimization of both the OS and hardware
• Work closely with the various developer teams to ensure applications run optimally
• Automate as much as possible
• Improve the current monitoring stack

• Advanced knowledge of Linux (CentOS/RHEL 7x,8x preferred), focused on automation, systems engineer and performance tuning
• Performance benchmarking
• Knowledge of Low latency networking, onload (Solarflare/Xilinx)
• Experience with system tuning tools like perf
• Fluency with scripting languages (bash, python, ruby)
• Working knowledge of the network protocols
• Experience with configuration management tools (puppet, ansible, chef)

• Configuration management tools like Puppet/Chef/Ansible
• Containerization
• Google Cloud Platform
• Kubernetes
• C++ toolchain (gcc, clang, cmake, conan)

At Grasshopper, you will be working in a diverse and dynamic environment with a flat hierarchy. With over 100 employees and 15 nationalities working in an open office, communication is essential to performance. To keep our edge as the “small giant” of trading technology, we give employees a high level of autonomy and encourage them to get creative, take risks, make mistakes and learn from them. The sprint is on!

Grasshopper is an equal opportunity employer.