Platform Engineer

About Grasshopper

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.

About the Role
As a Platform Engineer on the Infrastructure Team, you’ll be responsible for managing our internal platforms that enable our developers to build, deploy and manage applications efficiently, streamlining the software development cycle. You’ll also take the initiative to explore and automate different ways to resolve an issue, and systematically find the most efficient and effective way to do it. 

As a key member of the Infrastructure Team, you’ll:

• 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

We’d love for you to have:

• 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)

It will be highly useful if you have prior experience in the following technologies:

• Configuration management tools like Puppet/Chef/Ansible


• Containerization


• Google Cloud Platform


• Kubernetes


• C++ toolchain (gcc, clang, cmake, conan)

What we offer:

• 21 days annual leave


• An opportunity to learn from experienced professionals, fostering mentorship opportunities and personal growth


• Comprehensive Insurance Package with extended coverage for dependents


• Well stocked pantry


• Annual Dental & Wellness budget


• Gym membership


• Employee bonus referrals


• Competitive Compensation

What you can expect working at Grasshopper:

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.