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Tower Research Capital

Software Engineer, Machine Lifecycle

New York$150k–$250kmidAdded 2 days ago

About this role

Tower Research Capital seeks a Software Engineer to design and build an end-to-end machine lifecycle automation pipeline that takes physical servers from power-on through production readiness with zero manual intervention. The role applies GitOps principles to hardware infrastructure, treating provisioning, configuration, and validation as versioned code in CI/CD pipelines.

What you'll do

  • Design and build the complete machine lifecycle pipeline from network boot through OS installation, configuration, validation, and production handoff
  • Automate hardware bring-up via BMC, Redfish, and IPMI for firmware updates, BIOS settings, and inventory discovery
  • Implement network boot provisioning (PXE/UEFI HTTP) and unattended OS installation to eliminate manual machine setup
  • Write Python and Ansible code to configure machines into their final roles, replacing manual runbooks with reviewed, versioned automation
  • Apply GitOps and CI/CD practices to the fleet, with desired state in Git and automated drift detection and reconciliation
  • Build automated validation, health checks, and stress tests that machines must pass before entering production

What they're looking for

  • Python (automation tooling and services)
  • Ansible (playbooks and roles)
  • CI/CD principles and pipeline design
  • Linux system administration and boot process
  • GitOps and infrastructure-as-code mindset
  • Out-of-band management (BMC, Redfish, IPMI)
  • Network boot and provisioning (PXE, UEFI HTTP)
  • State machine design and system instrumentation
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Tower Research Capital

Tower Research Capital builds high-performance quantitative trading systems and infrastructure, serving traders and researchers with low-latency platforms for market data, strategy execution, and order management. The company is hiring software engineers, quantitative developers, and infrastructure specialists to design scalable systems, optimize trading platforms, and enhance development tooling.

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Likely interview questions

  • Describe your experience automating physical hardware provisioning—what tools have you used and what was your biggest challenge?
  • Walk us through how you would design the state machine for a machine's lifecycle from arrival to decommissioning.
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