[BBLISA-jobs] TechOps Engineer at Quantopian (Downtown Crossing, Boston)

[Jonathan Kamens]

At Quantopian <https://www.quantopian.com/>, we're building the world's 
first algorithmic trading platform in the cloud. Our engineers are all 
generalists who write, test, and deploy code across our stack. Each of 
us also has an area of deep, focused excellence. If you like keeping the 
gears turning smoothly, crushing hard problems, and working with really 
smart people, then you may be the operations engineer we're looking for 
to help us change the world of finance.

As a Quantopian Technical Operations Engineer 
<https://www.quantopian.com/about#ops>, you'll report directly to the 
Vice President of Technical Operations and play a key role in expanding 
and maintaining our cloud infrastructure. Your primary responsibilities 
will include:

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    designing and implementing improvements to our application
    infrastructure and continuous delivery pipeline;

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    identifying gaps in our application monitoring infrastructure and
    propose and implement solutions;

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    monitoring the performance and availability of our application,
    analyze and troubleshoot issues, and propose and implement
    improvements to prevent them from recurring; and

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    participating in our on-call rotation and providing occasional
    after-hours support for production issues.

The ideal candidate will have experience in most of these areas:

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    hands-on management of Linux systems (Ubuntu preferred), 3+ years;

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    Python, Ruby automation scripting / application development;

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    MongoDB / other NoSQL databases;

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    management and deployment of cloud-based infrastructure services
    such as Heroku, AWS, RightScale, Papertrail, PagerDuty;

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    internet infrastructure services such as DNS, SMTP; and

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    development infrastructure services such as Github, Jenkins.

Here are some of the Operations projects we've worked on recently.

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    a Python class which uses off-the-shelf tools to manipulate the
    Interactive Brokers API Gateway
    <https://www.interactivebrokers.com/en/?f=%2Fen%2Fsoftware%2Fibapi.php>,
    so that we can transparently log our users into their stock trading
    accounts through our application;

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    Geckoboard <http://www.geckoboard.com/> status boards with custom
    push widgets that give us real-time visibility into site activity,
    with smart alerts about anomalies, displayed on a heads-up display
    in our office that's driven by a Raspberry Pi; and

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    strong encryption of our users' intellectual property in our
    database, implemented using mongoid-encrypted-fields
    <https://github.com/KoanHealth/mongoid-encrypted-fields> in our Ruby
    layer and a compatible Python class we built ourselves and
    integrated with Schematics <https://github.com/j2labs/schematics>.

FOSS is the foundation of our product, and we believe in giving back to 
the community. We've open-sourced Zipline 
<https://github.com/quantopian/zipline/>, our backtesting engine (>1,000 
stars and >190 forks!), as well as other code we've written, and we plan 
on opening up more of our code in the future.

_*About Quantopian*_

We're still a small company (our daily standups include every 
employee!), so you'll play a major role in shaping our direction and 
enjoy a complete lack of bureaucracy. At the same time, we are stable 
and well-funded, and we offer generous benefits, including 401(k) 
matching, stock options, and health insurance with no employee premium.

Our small size and ambitious goals dictate our approach to talent 
acquisition and retention: we believe in hiring the best engineers and 
giving them hard problems to solve and the autonomy to solve them.

Our office is conveniently located in Downtown Crossing.

We offer flexible work hours and a deeply ingrained respect for a 
healthy work/life balance.

Please get in touch with us at jobs at quantopian.com 
<mailto:jobs at quantopian.com> if you're interested!

Thanks,

Jonathan Kamens
V.P. of Technical Operations
Quantopian, Inc.

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