Senior Production Engineer (OCaml Experience)

Overview

Senior Production Engineer role providing live support and improving support infrastructure via software projects. Work includes OCaml development, incident response, deployment/monitoring, production improvements, and training others.

What you'll do

• Centralize support functions by resolving technology issues and delivering rotational support-infrastructure improvements.
• Work across the software lifecycle, including requirements gathering, design, documentation, code review, testing plan creation, and deployment/monitoring.
• Develop software in OCaml for trading and operational infrastructure for a proprietary trading company.
• Analyze and respond in real-time to novel incidents and coordinate with users and developers on operational aspects.
• Perform routine operational work to handle infrastructure problems.
• Identify, propose, and implement production environment improvements for optimization, reliability, and operational efficiency.
• Train junior engineers, interns, and other stakeholders.

What you'll need

• 3 or 4 year Bachelor’s degree or foreign equivalent.
• Minimum two (2) years of experience developing and supporting software in any occupation.
• 1 year OCaml development experience including algebraic data types and pattern matching.
• 1 year experience managing software release cycles and QA processes.
• 1 year experience using Mercurial distributed version control.
• 1 year experience with asynchronous programming, typeful design, and monadic programming.
• 1 year experience programming on Linux, including network programming and scripting tools.
• 1 year experience navigating on-premises servers.
• 1 year experience operating/supporting/building distributed state machines.
• 1 year experience monitoring production trading systems, responding to alerts, and participating in on-call rotations.

Details

• Location: New York, NY.
• Part-time telecommuting may be permitted with manager approval.