Pay-as-you-go for financial market data.
Systems Engineer
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United States
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32 days ago
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Mid Level
Job Description
Systems Engineer
Databento
Role Description 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 next generation market data provider — with the radical idea that you should only pay for the data that you use. We power the world's largest finance and fintech institutions and lower the barrier of entry for small startups, gaining over 4,000 users during our first year of launch. Our team brings former experience at the world's leading quantitative firms, including Two Sigma, Flow Traders, Tower Research, PDT Partners, SIG, and more. Responsibilities - Systems and network configuration. - Bare-metal and containerized application deployment. - Maintaining large storage clusters. - Instrumenting performance measurement and alerts. - Improving systems automation and tooling. - On-call support. - Coordinating bulk data delivery to customers and vendor partners. - Occasional physical infrastructure deliveries and systems provisioning. Qualifications - Strong Linux knowledge. - Experience with systems configuration and provisioning (PXE, Puppet, and Ansible preferred; Terraform). - Understanding of storage concepts (RAID, LVM, popular filesystems, distributed storage). - Basic networking (OSI model, IP protocols, switching/routing). - Ability to code in Python and write shell scripts. - DevOps/GitOps mindset. - Prior internship experience or 2+ years in full-time 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.; H-1B visa sponsorship is not available. Nice-to-haves - Experience with distributed storage systems (e.g., Ceph). - Customer support experience and strong problem-solving abilities. - Prior experience at a trading or fintech firm, or a strong interest in learning fintech. - Database administration (MySQL, ClickHouse, Redis). - Cloud engineering basics (AWS, GCP — compute, storage). - Virtualization and compute workloads (Proxmox, Docker, Kubernetes, HTCondor). - Systems and network tuning. - Monitoring and alerting (Prometheus, Grafana, Alertmanager, Loki). - Ability to travel to data centers in New Jersey or Boston on short notice (within one week). Notice about phishing scams Be cautious of phishing scams impersonating Databento that offer fake job interviews and request purchases. Official emails come only from info@databento.com or us.greenhouse-mail.io (our ATS). Any other domains (e.g., databento-careers.com, databento.online) are fraudulent. Company Description Databento, Inc. provides equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, disability, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, veteran status, or genetics. In addition to federal law requirements, we comply with applicable state and local laws governing nondiscrimination in every location where we operate. This policy applies to all terms and conditions of employment, including recruiting, hiring, placement, promotion, termination, layoff, recall, transfer, leaves of absence, compensation, and training. Pursuant to applicable laws, we consider qualified applicants with arrest or conviction records. If you need an accommodation, please let us know. Our recruiting data suggests that underrepresented applicants often downplay their skills. Even if your experience doesn’t exactly match the qualifications listed, we still want to hear from you. Please apply!
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