Databento
Systems Engineer
Remote / Boston / Salt Lake City / San Francisco / New York · Senior · Full-time
No sponsorship$150k-$230kDetected 10 days ago
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About the role
- The company provides real-time and historical data across futures, options, and equities through a unified API.
- Our team is responsible for managing our entire infrastructure fleet from the ground up.
- This includes handling dense storage clusters, compute, LL networking and systems, capture topologies, and more.
Responsibilities
- On-call support.
- Customer support experience and strong problem-solving abilities.
Requirements
- Ability to code in Python and write shell scripts.
- 5+ years of full-time experience in systems engineering or infrastructure roles.
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or a related field.
- Candidates must be authorized to work in the U.S.
- Experience with distributed storage systems (e.g., Ceph).
Nice to have
- Experience with systems configuration and provisioning (PXE, Puppet, and Ansible preferred
Compensation
- The base salary range for this role is $150,000–$230,000, benchmarked to Tier 1 locations in each country.
Benefits
- Prior experience at a trading or fintech firm, or a strong interest in learning fintech.
Company info
- The financial industry is growing at a record pace, but our data providers are still stuck in the past - with cumbersome onboarding processes, complicated APIs, slow infrastructure, and expensive licensing costs.
- Databento is the market data platform for modern finance.
- By owning the entire market data stack end-to-end, Databento is the first platform of its kind to combine the performance and reliability demanded by the world's leading trading firms with a dramatically simpler developer experience.
- Our team includes alumni of Two Sigma, Citadel Securities, Flow Traders, Tower Research, PDT Partners, SIG, and other top quantitative firms.
- We're looking for a midlevel or senior IC to join our Systems team.
- Coordinating bulk data delivery to customers and vendor partners.
Visa & Work Authorization
- Candidates must be authorized to work in the U.S.; H-1B visa sponsorship is not available.
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