Data Engineer

Jane Street

$120K — $145K *
Information Technology
Less than 5 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • Strong programming skills in any language (Python preferred)
  • Proficient in SQL or DataFrame libraries (e.g., pandas, Polars)
  • Intellectually curious with meticulous data investigation skills
  • Clear and concise communication skills
  • Experience with financial data is a plus, but not essential

Responsibilities

  • Collaborate with trading desks to identify data needs
  • Evaluate and assess a variety of datasets
  • Build and maintain data ingestion and transformation pipelines
  • Analyze and represent data accurately
  • Drive projects from conception to completion

Benefits

  • Opportunity to work with diverse and interesting datasets
  • Collaborative work environment that encourages ownership of projects
  • Chance to develop deep expertise in data domains
  • Access to build custom tools and software
Full Job Description
We are looking for a Data Engineer to turn messy, real-world datasets into reliable inputs for research and trading. Jane Street depends on data from a wide variety of sources to understand markets and the global economy-think world news, decades of weather patterns, deidentified credit card spending, or packet captures of stock exchange market data feeds. Clean, well-structured data is the difference between noise and a profitable trading signal. You'll work closely with trading desks to identify Jane Street's data needs, evaluate datasets, and build pipelines that ingest and transform external data. You'll figure out what data means and how best to represent it. We build our own tools and software when needed, so you'll also help shape the systems you use every day. This is a collaborative role, but you'll own your work from end to end. It requires a mix of engineering, data analysis, and product sense. You'll develop deep expertise in your data domains and use that understanding to decide what's worth building next. Have strong programming skills in any language (Python a plus); you write clear, correct, and maintainable code Proficient with SQL or DataFrame libraries like pandas or Polars Intellectually curious with a meticulous approach to data investigation; you enjoy the detective work required to make sense of unfamiliar datasets A clear and concise communicator Prior experience with financial data is helpful but not required. We're happy to hire talented engineers and teach them what they need to know.

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