Systems Engineer
US$150,000 – US$230,000 / yr base salary
Posted 3 Dec 2025
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- Expected experience
- 5+ yrs
- Management level
- Individual contributor
- Employment
- Remote
- Visa sponsorship
- Not offered
| Base salary | US$150,000 – US$230,000 / yr |
|---|
Field of studyComputer Science (or related)
Study levelBachelor's
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're looking for a midlevel or senior IC to join our Systems team. Our team is responsible for managing our entire infrastructure fleet from the ground up. This includes handling dense storage clusters, compute, LL networking and systems, capture topologies, 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.
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.
- 5+ years of full-time experience in 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).