Data Reliability Engineer

Data Reliability Engineer

We're seeking a Data Reliability Engineer to join a high-performance data engineering team supporting trading and research functions. This role blends data engineering, platform reliability, and operational support, with responsibility for ensuring critical datasets, pipelines, and APIs remain accurate, scalable, and production-ready.

Responsibilities

Data Operations & Support

• Act as a primary point of contact for data-related issues across trading, research, and business teams.
• Investigate and resolve data quality, availability, and freshness issues.
• Monitor data pipelines, workflows, and real-time feeds, responding to alerts and incidents.
• Coordinate with external data providers to resolve feed issues, data discrepancies, and specification changes.
• Communicate incident status and resolutions to stakeholders.

Data Engineering & Reliability

• Integrate and onboard new datasets, including schema mapping, transformation, validation, and historical backfills.
• Develop and maintain scalable ETL/ELT pipelines supporting real-time and analytical workloads.
• Build data quality frameworks, monitoring solutions, and automated validation processes.
• Design and maintain normalized data models for complex financial and market datasets.
• Develop and support APIs that deliver data to trading, research, and analytics platforms.
• Partner with engineering, quantitative, and business teams to deliver reliable data solutions.
• Enhance platform observability, monitoring, and operational tooling to improve reliability and performance.

Qualifications

• 3+ years of experience in Data Engineering, Data Reliability, Site Reliability Engineering, Software Engineering, or Data Operations.
• Strong Python development experience, including data processing frameworks such as Pandas, PyArrow, and Spark.
• Experience building and supporting large-scale data pipelines and APIs.
• Strong understanding of data modeling, data quality, and data architecture principles.
• Experience with cloud data platforms and lakehouse technologies such as Databricks, Delta Lake, or AWS.
• Exposure to financial market data, trading systems, or capital markets environments is a plus.
• Proven ability to troubleshoot production issues, manage incidents, and drive operational improvements.
• Strong communication skills and experience working in fast-paced, business-critical environments.