Elite Low-Latency Market Data Engineer

Point72; New York (NY); On-site; USD 150,000 - 250,000; Full time

Job summary

Point72 is seeking a detail-oriented Low-Latency Market Data Engineer with 10+ years of Linux and network experience to design, implement, and support high-performance market data systems in a NY environment.

You will manage infrastructure changes, monitor critical co-located systems, and collaborate with vendors on protocol upgrades while building automated tooling and telemetry to improve MTTR and data quality.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of network design experience supporting critical trading or enterprise services.
• 5+ years of Linux System Administration experience supporting RHEL environments.
• Experience supporting high frequency trading environments within co-locations.
• Experience engineering and supporting Market Data and/or third-party feed handlers.
• Experience with tuning Linux servers for low latency and high throughput.

Responsibilities

• Manage, communicate, and implement infrastructure changes, upgrades, and migrations on co-located network devices and Linux servers
• Support, monitor, and maintain co-location market data infrastructure running on RHEL
• Engage with vendors and exchanges on protocol upgrades (EDC) and operational issues
• Analyze packet captures (gaps, data quality checks)
• Liaise with Market Data capture vendor on issues, upgrades, and performance enhancements
• Implement a strategic monitoring platform with streaming infrastructure (Prometheus / Grafana)
• Develop and expand upon AI based tools that link to key data sources for greater instrumentation, visibility, and MTTR
• Automate both data gathering and configuration changes through tools like Ansible, GitHub, NetBox

Skills

Linux System Administration

Network design

Troubleshooting

Scripting

Independent problem solver

Tools

Ansible

Terraform

GitHub

NetBox

Prometheus

Job description

Point72 is seeking a detail-oriented Low-Latency Market Data Engineer with 10+ years of Linux and network experience to design, implement, and support high-performance market data systems in a NY environment.

You will manage infrastructure changes, monitor critical co-located systems, and collaborate with vendors on protocol upgrades while building automated tooling and telemetry to improve MTTR and data quality.