NLData Center Engineer
OptiverAmsterdam
Why this is on the board
The work itself, maintaining servers and cabling for a trading firm, does not solve an urgent problem; the leverage is in the income, because Optiver pays bonuses from a shared profit pool that can come out well above an ordinary engineering salary. If you give a fixed share of that to well-evidenced charities (earning to give), you pay for other people's work, but that only pays off if you keep giving for years and the bonus in this role actually turns out to be high.
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About the role
At Optiver, we strive for excellence in everything we do. We’re looking for a Data Center Engineer that shares our excellence-only mindset. Because we believe that thoughtfully planned and well-orchestrated data center infrastructure is just as important as the algorithms running on our trading software. Without best-in-class infrastructure, there would be no foundation upon which to build our global market making core business. For that reason, we are looking for a Data Center Engineer who i…
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