Hacker Newsnew | past | comments | ask | show | jobs | submitlogin

Cboe | Systems Engineer | Remote for US | Full-time

Join a high-caliber team that is passionate about automating systems management at scale. Cboe is one of the world's largest financial exchange operators and we're fully dedicated to making financial markets better still.

Our specific team is responsible for everything below application-level (OS, hardware, shared tech resources). Managing many thousands of servers with a release every week. We're after software engineers who share our passion for quality and scale.

The desired candidate will require proficiency in:

- Python development

- Linux administration/management tasks

Ideally, candidates will have some experience in:

- Cloud Native technology stacks (e.g., Kubernetes, Prometheus, AWS, etc.)

- Configuration Management technologies (e.g., Salt, Puppet, Ansible, etc.)

- automated testing in Python

- modern version control

- systems performance (latency/throughput) analysis/remediation

- database systems (PostgreSQL preferred)

- low-level hardware exposure (enterprise storage, baseboard management controllers, etc.)

We look forward to chatting with folks who want to join us! You can reach us with a resume and application at: syseng-global-jobs-hackernews@cboe.com



>Our specific team is responsible for everything below application-level (OS, hardware, shared tech resources) ....Ideally, candidates will have some experience in: Kubernetes, Prometheus, AWS...Salt, Puppet, Ansible,..PostgreSQL

I don't think your job posting makes sense. "Below application-level" is ambiguous, but the ordinary meaning would be kernel, drivers, network stack, then hardware, and so on. But then you talk about, well, really big abstract things that are about as far above hardware as it gets on the server-side. k8s is enormously absract from hardware. If I was feeling snarky I'd recommend that you add all the front-end tech so you only have to hire one person for your whole engineering team.


Thanks for the feedback! I guess to put it in different words, our team is responsible for "infrastructure automation" (which would include both kernel responsibilities yet higher level abstractions too e.g., k8s). This is in contrast to our application development teams at Cboe which would instead focus on writing the logic of the trading systems themselves (e.g., matching engines, code to interface with orders and other exchanges, etc.). Hope that helps.


Yes, that's less ambiguous. You could also use the term "devops" or even SRE to describe what you're looking for.




Consider applying for YC's Winter 2026 batch! Applications are open till Nov 10

Guidelines | FAQ | Lists | API | Security | Legal | Apply to YC | Contact

Search: