Chicago Trading Company (CTC) is a premier proprietary trading firm specializing in options market making. Our collaborative culture fuels innovation in quantitative research, systematic trading strategies, and cutting-edge trading technology. For over three decades CTC has provided critical liquidity across derivatives exchanges worldwide - making them fairer, more transparent, and more efficient.

We strive to be the most innovative firm in the industry today, tomorrow, and long into the future while upholding ethical excellence. We believe that CTC makes a positive impact on the markets, the lives of our employees, and all the communities to which we belong. Started in 1995 by a team of forward-thinking Traders, we are proud to call ourselves an industry leader that keeps making markets and each other better.

As a Linux Engineering Team Lead, you will oversee the Linux Engineering team while remaining hands-on. You’ll help set technical direction and operational standards for Linux infrastructure supporting our real-time trading environment, development systems, research compute, and orchestration clusters. This role requires deep technical, operational, and people leadership skills to deliver results across the trading platform.

What You'Ll Do

Lead and develop the Linux Engineering team; translate business needs into a clear roadmap and drive accountability across project and operational work Own the design, implementation, and operation of a global Linux infrastructure footprint with a focus on reliability, performance, and determinism Automate and standardize fleet operations (provisioning, configuration management, patching, upgrades, lifecycle) and improve monitoring/alerting to reduce time-to-detect and time-to-recover Establish operational excellence (runbooks, incident response, post-incident learning) and mentor engineers through debugging, performance tuning, and architecture decisions Partner across execution, network, and development teams to plan and coordinate changes; guide projects end-to-end and participate in an on-call rotation

What We'Re Looking For

, conducting 1:1s, contributing to hiring or performance decisions) Extensive experience supporting a large-scale, global Linux server fleet and low-latency Linux systems Deep knowledge of Linux internals and systems-level debugging, with a track record of solving performance issues Demonstrated success in leadership and stakeholder management Strong problem-solving under pressure and a collaborative, customer-service mindset; financial trading industry experience preferred Salary Range: $200,000 - $250,000, plus a discretionary bonus.

Qualifications

, and firm performance. Most teams at CTC, with the exception of Trading, follow a hybrid workplace model, subject to change based on business need.

Benefits

We strongly believe in the well-being of our employees and their families so we offer outstanding

to support you both professionally and personally.

include generous time off, insurance coverage, paid parental leave, free breakfast and lunch (plus healthy snacks, of course), wellness reimbursement, and a variety of other

focused on providing the best employee experience.

at CTC) Our Commitment to Diversity, Equity and Inclusion At CTC, we aim to cultivate a workplace that celebrates diversity and each person feels included, engaged and empowered. Where each of us feels we belong. We are committed to having a diverse workforce and are proud to be an equal opportunity employer.

CTC does not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, sex, gender, gender expression, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status.