Systems Engineer

Databento
  • Boston, MA
  • Remote
    30+ days ago

    Job 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 market data platform for modern finance. The company provides real-time and historical data across futures, options, and equities through a unified API. 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 offer health, dental, disability, and life insurance benefits, as well as 401(k) matching for full-time employees. We accommodate 100% remote work, with teammates living around the globe and paid in their local currency.

    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.

    Required 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 @databento.com or us.greenhouse-mail.io (our ATS). Any other domains (e.g., databento-careers.com, databento.online) are fraudulent.

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    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! 

    Numbers & Facts

    LocationBoston, MA (
    Remote
    )

    Skills

    • Amazon Web Services (AWS)unmatched
    • Ansibleunmatched
    • Application Programming Interface (API)unmatched
    • Automationunmatched
    • Cloud Computingunmatched
    • Computer Scienceunmatched
    • Customer Support/Serviceunmatched
    • Database Administrationunmatched
    • DevOpsunmatched
    • Distributed Computingunmatched
    • Dockerunmatched
    • File Systemsunmatched
    • Financeunmatched
    • Futuresunmatched
    • GCP (Good Clinical Practices)unmatched
    • IP (Internet Protocol)unmatched
    • Licensingunmatched
    • Linux Operating Systemunmatched
    • Logical Volume Manager (LVM)unmatched
    • Machine Toolunmatched
    • MySQLunmatched
    • Network Configuration Managementunmatched
    • Network Operations Centerunmatched
    • Network Switchingunmatched
    • On Callunmatched
    • Onboardingunmatched
    • Open Systems Interconnection (OSI)unmatched
    • Performance Metricsunmatched
    • Phishingunmatched
    • Problem Solving Skillsunmatched
    • Puppet (Configuration Management)unmatched
    • Python Programming/Scripting Languageunmatched
    • RAID Storageunmatched
    • Redisunmatched
    • Software Engineeringunmatched
    • Systems Administration/Managementunmatched
    • Systems Engineeringunmatched
    • Trading/Stockbrokingunmatched
    • Unix Shell Programmingunmatched
    • Virtualizationunmatched
    • Willing to Travelunmatched
    • Work From Homeunmatched

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