eTrading Full Stack Engineering - Compute

Opportunity

Platform engineering

• Translate trading workloads into qualified server bills of materials covering CPU, NUMA, memory, storage, networking, and lifecycle constraints.
• Benchmark and certify hardware and firmware, documenting performance, resilience, thermal, and compatibility evidence before production approval.
• Build, patch, harden, and support RHEL platforms using standardized images, repositories, provisioning, and controlled lifecycle processes.
• Tune BIOS, firmware, kernel, and user-space settings for deterministic performance, including CPU isolation, IRQ placement, power policy, NUMA locality, and network settings.
• Baseline latency, jitter, throughput, and resource contention; detect regressions through long-running tests and controlled changes.

Security, automation, and operations

• Engineer Docker and Podman runtimes, including registries, image lifecycle, resource controls, storage, and networking.
• Develop OpenSCAP scanning, remediation, exceptions, and audit evidence for RHEL trading servers.
• Generate and govern SBOMs and integrate vulnerability, provenance, and release-policy checks into delivery pipelines.
• Automate inventory, health, BIOS settings, firmware, and lifecycle workflows through Redfish and vendor controllers.
• Implement observability across hardware, containers, and operating systems, and investigate issues using tracing and system logs.
• Build reusable Infrastructure as Code and test automation for provisioning, compliance, qualification, evidence, and post-change validation.
• Lead incident diagnosis and root-cause analysis, maintain recovery procedures and runbooks, and implement permanent corrective actions.

Collaboration

• Coordinate with trading, application, network, cybersecurity, operations, procurement, hardware-vendor, and data-center-provider teams to deliver resilient low-latency platforms.

Required experience and expertise

• Bring substantial hands-on server, Linux, or platform-engineering experience in financial services, electronic trading, market data, or another performance-sensitive environment.
• Demonstrate deep RHEL expertise across installation, repositories, systemd, kernel and boot configuration, SELinux, storage, networking, patching, and troubleshooting.
• Design server bills of materials and evaluate CPU architecture, cache and NUMA topology, memory, PCIe layout, storage, NICs, power, cooling, and lifecycle constraints.
• Know x86 server hardware, BIOS/UEFI, BMCs, firmware, RAID or NVMe storage, memory fault handling, and enterprise hardware diagnostics.
• Tune Linux for low latency and determinism using TuneD and measured kernel, CPU, memory, and network settings.
• Bring strong Docker and Podman experience across images, registries, namespaces, cgroups, capabilities, rootless containers, storage, and networking.
• Implement OpenSCAP scanning, tailoring, remediation, and evidence management against security baselines.
• Know SBOM standards and tooling, vulnerability management, provenance, and release gates.
• Use Redfish APIs and vendor server-management platforms for inventory, configuration, health, firmware, and remote operations.
• Automate with Ansible and a high-level language such as Python or Java, including APIs, idempotent configuration, testing, and CI/CD.

Additional relevant knowledge

• Knowledge of PTP, NTP, hardware timestamping, PTP hardware clocks, and time-distribution monitoring.
• Experience with low-latency NICs, kernel bypass or accelerated networking, receive-side scaling, busy polling, and user-space networking.
• Familiarity with performance tools such as perf, eBPF, ftrace, cyclictest, hwlatdetect, rteval, turbostat, numactl, ethtool, PCP, and packet-capture utilities.
• Experience with SPDX or CycloneDX SBOM formats and image signing or attestation.
• Knowledge of image-based RHEL delivery, bare-metal provisioning, PXE, kickstart, internal package repositories, and secure boot.

Role impact

Compensation

• The final fixed-pay offer depends on role responsibilities, skills, experience, education, licensing or certification requirements, internal relativity, and work location.

Employee offering

• HSBC describes professional development opportunities, a competitive pay and benefits package, wellness resources, volunteer programs, and employee resource groups.