DevOps Engineer

Stormlight Capital

DevOps Engineer

Chicago, IL
Full Time
Paid
  • Responsibilities

    Benefits:

    Bonus based on performance

    Competitive salary

    Flexible schedule

    Home office stipend

    Opportunity for advancement

    Paid time off

    Profit sharing

    Signing bonus

    Training & development

    About Stormlight Capital

    Stormlight Capital LLC is a high-frequency trading firm and market maker specializing in event contracts. Leveraging advanced technology and quantitative expertise, we deliver deep liquidity, efficient pricing, and robust risk management for our proprietary trading strategies. Continuous innovation and disciplined execution keep us at the forefront of event-based markets.

    The Role

    We're seeking an exceptional DevOps Engineer to join our elite technology team. This is a high-impact position where your work directly influences our trading performance and bottom line. You'll architect and maintain the critical infrastructure that powers our derivatives trading operations, ensuring our systems can process millions of market data points and execute trades at lightning speed.

    Key Responsibilities

    Design, deploy, and maintain highly available, low-latency trading infrastructure across AWS, co-located servers, and Google Cloud platforms

    Optimize system performance to achieve sub-millisecond latency requirements for critical trading applications

    Build and maintain CI/CD pipelines using GitHub Actions for rapid, reliable deployments

    Develop and maintain machine learning operations pipelines supporting our quantitative research and trading models

    Manage DataBricks environments for large-scale data processing and model training workflows

    Implement automated model deployment, monitoring, and rollback procedures

    Ensure seamless integration between ML models and production trading systems

    Implement comprehensive monitoring, alerting, and observability solutions for trading systems

    Conduct performance analysis and capacity planning to ensure systems can handle peak market volatility

    Lead incident response and post-mortem analysis for any system issues

    Implement robust security measures for financial trading infrastructure

    Required Qualifications

    3+ years of DevOps/Platform Engineering experience in high-performance environments

    Expert-level proficiency with AWS and Google Cloud Platform services

    Strong experience with DataBricks for big data and ML workloads

    Proficiency with GitHub for version control and CI/CD workflows

    Experience with monitoring tools (Prometheus, Grafana, DataDog, etc.)

    Understanding of network optimization, kernel tuning, and hardware acceleration

    Strong scripting abilities in Python, Bash, and/or Go

    Experience with automation frameworks and configuration management tools

    Understanding of software development lifecycle and testing methodologies

    Preferred Qualifications

    Previous experience in financial services, particularly trading firms or hedge funds

    Knowledge of derivatives markets, trading systems, or market data feeds

    Experience with streaming data platforms (Kafka, Pulsar, Kinesis, Chronicle Queue, Aeron)

    Familiarity with quantitative finance or machine learning model deployment

    Relevant certifications (AWS Solutions Architect, Google Cloud Professional, CKA/CKAD)

    What We Offer

    Highly competitive base salary with substantial performance-based bonuses

    Participation in firm profits

    Work alongside world-class technologists and quantitative researchers

    Access to cutting-edge technology and unlimited learning opportunities

    Fast-paced environment with rapid career advancement potential

    Collaborative culture that values innovation and results

    Flexible work arrangements with core collaboration hours

    This is a remote position.