Point72
Network Team Lead, Systematic Trading Infrastructure
New York
Sponsorship not specified$250k-$350kDetected 35 days ago
AgileFirewallBGP/OSPFLoad BalancingWiresharkMentoring
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64Sponsors, lottery-bound
Cap-exempt (no lottery)0
Sponsors this role100
Entry-level history0
PERM / green-card track0
Lottery odds (Level IV)94
Fits your clock70
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About the role
- We're a team of experts who experiment and work to discover new ways to harness open-source solutions, modern cloud architectures, and sophisticated Artificial Intelligence (AI) solutions, while embracing enterprise agile methodologies.
- For more information, visit https://point72.com/.
Responsibilities
- Lead a specialized global network team that owns the critical path between trading strategies and markets across collocated sites and inter-site connectivity
- Own the architectural roadmap for the collocated trading environment and wide area network (WAN) connecting exchange sites, proximity data centers, venues, brokers, and data providers
- Design and operate ultra-low-latency network fabrics, including layer 1 topologies, optical transport, structured cabling, patching strategy, and capacity planning
- Evaluate, procure, validate, and monitor inter-site circuits to ensure route latency, stability, resilience, and performance meet production trading requirements
- Manage BGP, IP routing, load balancing, firewall, and segmentation architecture across the WAN and extranet connectivity protecting the trading estate
- Own end-to-end market data connectivity, including multicast and unicast feed delivery, gap and loss analysis, arbitration paths, and line-rate reliability
- Lead venue and broker connectivity onboarding for order entry, including gateway sessions, conformance, certification, and operational readiness for new launches
- Own network latency and quality monitoring, packet capture, precision timing, and telemetry capabilities that provide evidence-based answers about network performance
- Drive automation for network changes, validations, venue onboarding, compliance checks, diagnostics, and safer change execution using modern automation and approaches assisted by artificial intelligence
- Develop engineers, set operational standards, manage vendor and colocation relationships, and communicate architectural decisions and incident findings to senior stakeholders
Requirements
- Demonstrated experience with layer 2 and layer 3 design for low-latency data center fabrics
- Hands-on experience with multicast market data distribution, troubleshooting, gap and loss analysis, and reliable line-rate feed delivery
- Practical experience with layer 1 mux and tap, switching, optical transport, DWDM, and colocation cross-connect management
- Hands-on experience with network platforms used in latency-sensitive environments and familiarity with kernel bypass and low-latency host networking concepts
- When you work here, we provide:
Skills
- A Career with Point72's Technology Team
Compensation
- The annual base salary range for this role is $250,000-$350,000 (USD), which does not include discretionary bonus compensation or our comprehensive benefits package.
Benefits
- We invest in our people, their careers, their health, and their well-being.
- Fully-paid health care benefits
- Generous parental and family leave policies
- Tuition assistance
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