Systems Engineer

Databento

$90K — $120K *
Information Technology
Less than 5 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • Strong knowledge of Linux operating systems.
  • Experience with systems configuration and provisioning tools (PXE, Puppet, Ansible, Terraform).
  • Understanding of storage concepts including RAID, LVM, and distributed storage.
  • Basic networking knowledge covering OSI model, IP protocols, and switching/routing.
  • Proficient in Python coding and shell scripting.
  • Adoption of DevOps/GitOps practices.
  • Minimum 2 years in systems engineering or related infrastructure roles, or prior internship experience.
  • Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or a related field.
  • Authorization to work in the U.S.; H-1B visa sponsorship not available.

Responsibilities

  • Configure systems and networks.
  • Deploy applications on bare-metal and containerized environments.
  • Maintain large-scale storage clusters.
  • Implement performance measurement instruments and alerts.
  • Enhance systems automation and tooling processes.
  • Provide on-call support as needed.
  • Facilitate bulk data delivery to customers and partners.
  • Occasionally handle physical infrastructure deliveries and provisioning.

Benefits

  • Health, dental, disability, and life insurance.
  • 401(k) matching for full-time employees.
  • Flexible 100% remote work arrangement for global teammates.
  • Compensation in local currency for remote employees.
Full 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.

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).


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