Linux Engineer Intern

Job Description:

Building trusted markets — powered by our people. At Cboe Global Markets, we inspire our people to solve complex challenges together because what we do matters. We provide the financial infrastructure that powers the global economy. As a leading provider of market infrastructure and tradable products, Cboe delivers cutting-edge trading, clearing and investment solutions to market participants around the world.

Cboe interns work with a variety of staff across multiple departments and have the opportunity to put their skills to work in their field of interest, while learning about Exchange technology and operations through our robust Options Institute courses. The three main foundational pillars of our internship program are: develop, educate and network. We want to ensure each of our interns receive a real-world working experience that encourages academic, professional and personal growth.

Candidates should be versatile, eager and able to work in a fast-paced, time-sensitive financial and technical environment. To be eligible for this internship, applicants must be enrolled in a university or college program and should not be scheduled to graduate before December of the year in which the internship takes place. Our internship program runs from June to August, and you will wrap up your internship with a final presentation and retreat.

The Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) team is responsible for performance tuning and capacity planning for multiple high performance, ultralow latency financial exchanges. The SRE team also provides operational support for these exchanges to maintain system availability and optimal performance. The SRE team works closely with Software Engineering, Systems Engineering, and Network Engineering teams to troubleshoot complex issues, to coordinate and support platform configuration updates, and to leverage new cutting-edge technologies.

The SRE intern role is a great opportunity to learn about complex software systems and financial markets

• Provide technical support to sustain resiliency and high availability of financial exchanges
• Analyzing performance metrics and optimizing the latency of the exchanges
• Collaborating with Infrastructure/Development teams for technology upgrades and migrations
• Supporting Cboe’s Incident Management process to resolve and investigate technical issues
• Driving and implementing capacity planning decisions for Operations
• Developing, testing, and maintaining automation and monitoring tools

• Currently pursuing in Bachelor’s degree or higher and should not be scheduled to graduate before December of the year in which the internship takes place.
• Desire to learn about technical operations for a financial exchange
• Advanced Linux command line knowledge
• High level of proficiency in Python and SQL
• Strong troubleshooting and problem-solving skills
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills

• Ability to read and evaluate C++ (or similarly complex OO languages)
• Knowledge of stock and options trading

• Competitive compensation
• 2:1 401(k) match, up to 8% match immediately upon hire.

Some of our employees’ favorite benefits and perks include:

• Daily complimentary in-office lunch from local restaurants
• Endless free coffee and snacks to fuel your workday
• Monthly in office networking events and happy hours
• Associate Resource Groups (ARGs) and affinity groups for support and community building

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