You sit at the intersection of our developers and our infrastructure, and the range of what lands on your desk is wide by design. Just as important as keeping things running is helping us modernize how we deploy and monitor. You will configure and deploy a properly tuned PostgreSQL database in Docker, treat the shell as second nature, and find your footing fast in an environment where the stakes of a bad deploy are real and immediate.
DevOps Engineer
Between the devs and the infrastructure, someone has to make sure it all keeps running.
Position
DevOps Engineer
Employment
Full-time
Work Model
On-site
Location
Spork Palace, Prague 1
Interested in working for Qminers?
DevOps Engineer
What You Will Do
- Manage our software stack, data flows, and deployments, and help modernize how we do both.
- Design and support a stable research environment our analysts rely on every day.
- Automate the repetitive work away and troubleshoot trading software across global markets.
- Work in close, daily collaboration with our developers, not as a separate team down the hall.
- Get access to everything technical happening at Qminers, and a direct hand in how it runs.
Most of our day is thinking, arguing toward the best solution, and coding. We like results reasonably fast, in both development and runtime, and we give people real room to run and a direct line to the result.
Who We Are
Qminers is a Prague-based algorithmic trading firm competing on four continents, 24/7. Founded in 2012, we delivered a Sharpe ratio above 10 year after year for a decade. We are a team of around 50: mathematicians, quants, software engineers, and machine learning researchers.
Excellence is not a slogan here, it is the baseline.
Requirements
Must have
- Good knowledge of Linux and the command line.
- A solid grasp of hardware and networking technologies.
- Good command of Python.
- Familiarity with containerization, databases, and distributed computing environments.
- Excellent logical thinking, and the willingness to tackle technical problems of all kinds.
- Willingness, even passion to learn new things.
Nice to have
- A working overview of modern DevOps tooling, and an eye on major new releases before everyone else notices them.
- Experience keeping live, latency-sensitive systems running, not just staging ones.
- A track record of making other people's work faster or easier, not just your own.
We are honest about fit. This is not a demo and it is not a benchmark: the data is genuinely hard, the signal is faint, and a result only counts when it holds up on real metrics. If you want to be only a researcher who hands off, or only an engineer who ships someone else’s model, this is the wrong seat. If you want to be both, it is the right one.
Our Culture
The best argument wins.
Meritocracy is in our DNA.
You own the outcome.
Responsibility here is total, the wins and the mistakes alike.
Your rivals are outside, not inside.
Excellent colleagues are the elevator up, not the competition.
Interview process
01
Application
Through the web form.
02
Screening call
A short conversation to align expectations. You know where you stand.
03
Technical screening
An online test and a short technical call.
04
Take-home task
A real problem, a reasonable amount of time, and detailed feedback either way.
05
On-site interview
One-to-one conversations with the team, and lunch together.
06
Decision within a week
A clear answer, and if it did not work out, what was missing so you can try again.
Compensation
Our package has four parts.
Base salary
Every role has a published salary range, and the more experience and results you bring, the higher you move within it.Profit share & bonuses
Everyone holds a share of net profit, up to low single-digit percentages depending on impact. Around a quarter of the firm’s total annual profit goes into bonuses, re-evaluated every year on real, measurable impact.Shadow equity
A meaningful share in the firm’s performance, a standard part of compensation for senior contributors.ESOP
For the most senior people, genuine ownership in what the firm becomes. The details are worth a conversation.We publish our annual results, and anyone inside the firm can see how Qminers is paid and how the current year is shaping up. Financial transparency is a given, not a perk.
Interested in working for Qminers?
Send an email to hr@qminers.com or fill out the form.
Are you an experienced quant? A programmer with a passion for C++ or Python? Or are you a recent graduate with a specialization in data? We’re always keen to hear from you!