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Fantastic opportunity for talented programmers at one of the world's top algorithmic trading firms in their London office. They make the world's markets more financially efficient using smart algorithms. To get the job done, they hire some of the smartest computer scientists in the world to develop both their low latency trading platform and their massive distributed research platform. The Systems Development team builds and maintains the platform that is shared by all Systems teams to provision, monitor, and manage the server and network infrastructure. As a Systems Software Engineer with a focus on Security, your main focus will be tool development in Python and Go to engineer creative solutions to security challenges. You'll improve and integrate existing tools and libraries across the platform, as well as design and build new ones to make trading, research, installation, and monitoring systems easier to manage, more secure, and more reliable. Strong Python skills and development experience are required, along with Unix experience and interest in the security space. This role offers a unique opportunity to make a significant impact on a critical part of existing and growing infrastructure. Your responsibilities will vary, but a typical day in the life might look like: Building and maintaining tools and software features to automate systems engineering workflows related to secure machine provisioning, monitoring, metrics collection, maintenance, secrets management, and network configurationTroubleshooting software bugs on a fleet of Linux machines, including application, network, operating system, and/or kernel issuesWriting configuration management code to build, deploy, and maintain new servicesHelping to set the general direction for the Systems Python platformWorking across the engineering teams to help create solutions to a variety of security challenges Qual