Linux Engineer

<h3>About the Program</h3> <p>Our goal is to give you a real sense of what it’s like to work at Jane Street full time. Over the&nbsp;course of your internship, you will explore ways to approach and solve exciting problems within&nbsp;your field of interest through fun and challenging classes, interactive sessions, and group&nbsp;discussions — and then you will have the chance to put those lessons to practical use.</p> <p>As an intern, you are paired with full-time employees who act as mentors, collaborating with you&nbsp;on real-world projects we actually need done. When you’re not working on your project, you will&nbsp;have plenty of time to use our office amenities, physical and virtual educational resources,&nbsp;attend guest speakers and social events, and engage with the parts of our work that excite you&nbsp;the most.</p> <p>If you’ve never thought about a career in finance, you’re in good company. Many of us were in the same position before working here. If you have a curious mind, a collaborative spirit, and a passion for solving interesting problems, we have a feeling you’ll fit right in.</p> <h3>About the Position</h3> <p>As a Linux Engineering intern, you’ll work side by side with full-timers to learn how we maintain&nbsp;and improve the critical infrastructure underlying our firm’s technology, including our production&nbsp;trading systems. On any given day, we might be debugging kernel performance, developing&nbsp;management tools, or resolving production issues in real time. Our mix of in-house and open&nbsp;source software allows us to investigate and innovate at every level.</p> <p>During the program you’ll work on up to two projects, mentored closely by the full-time&nbsp;employees who designed them. Some projects consider big-picture questions that we’re still&nbsp;trying to figure out, while others involve building something new. &nbsp;We will choose your projects so you’ll gain a better understanding of the wide range of problems we solve every day — from finding new and interesting ways to resolve production issues quickly, perform comprehensive root-cause analyses, and integrate long-term fixes in a clean and robust&nbsp;way.</p> <p>You’ll have a unique opportunity to see how our team interacts with almost every other group,&nbsp;building solutions that work on a firm-wide scale. We automate as much of our work as we can,&nbsp;because we find that automation reduces our error rate and overall workload — plus, we think it's fun.</p> <h3>About You</h3> <p>We don’t expect you to have a background in one specific field — we’re looking for smart people&nbsp;who enjoy solving interesting problems. We’re more interested in how you think and learn than&nbsp;what you currently know. You should be:</p> <ul> <li>Knowledgeable of operating system fundamentals and computer architecture</li> <li>Able to understand network protocols at a basic level</li> <li>Someone who solves problems by writing code (in any language)</li> <li>Intellectually curious, collaborative, and eager to learn</li> <li>Humble and unafraid to ask questions and admit mistakes</li> <li>A strong communicator</li> <li>Are comfortable at the command-line of a *nix machine as you are in a GUI</li> <li>Experienced with systems programming concepts like C, sockets, virtual memory, and the process life cycle</li> <li>Experienced with a modern *nix system, whether that’s from course work, time spent as a systems administrator for your campus computer lab, side projects, etc.</li> <li>Intending to start full-time employment in 2027 or 2028</li> <li>Fluent in English</li> </ul> <p>Please note: Jane Street will provide flights to and from Hong Kong as well as accommodation throughout the entirety of the program.</p> <p><em>If you're a recruiting agency and want to partner with us, please reach out to agency-partnerships@janestreet.com.</em></p>