Equities Data Engineer — Real-Time Pipelines for Trading

Tradermath; Chicago (IL); Hybrid; USD 175,000 - 200,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical, dental, and vision insurance

401k with employer match

Discretionary annual bonus

Flexible spending accounts

Job summary

DRW in Chicago is seeking an Equities Data Engineer to join the MASS trading team. You will onboard, transform, and manage diverse financial datasets and collaborate with traders, researchers, and quantitative developers to develop delta-one strategies.

The role involves building resilient data pipelines, ensuring data quality and governance, and optimizing storage and processing across on-prem, cloud, and hybrid environments.

Qualifications

• 5+ years designing ingestion pipelines.
• Experience processing real-time and batch financial market data.
• Strong Linux and cloud platform skills; CI/CD and MLOps familiarity.

Responsibilities

• Partner with traders, researchers, and analysts to deliver well-structured data that powers trading strategies, predictive models, and AI/ML applications.
• Build, automate, and maintain resilient pipelines for cleaning, validating, and transforming batch and streaming data that feed into medallion architectures.
• Develop observability, monitoring, and alerting tools to provide complete visibility into pipeline reliability and performance.
• Optimize tiered data storage and elastic processing across on-prem, cloud, and hybrid environments to ensure scalable and cost-effective solutions.
• Enforce data governance, controls, and security standards to preserve confidentiality and operational integrity.
• Implement data quality frameworks to detect gaps, staleness, and data inconsistencies.
• Maintain point-in-time correctness across datasets used for research and live trading; ensure reproducibility of signals and backtests.
• Collaborate with platform/infrastructure teams to productionize pipelines, improve runtime efficiency, and meet latency requirements.

Skills

Data ingestion pipelines

Real-time data processing

Time-series analysis

CI/CD practices

MLOps familiarity

Linux

Cloud platforms

Monitoring/Observability

Tools

Parquet

Iceberg

CI/CD tools

Job description

DRW in Chicago is seeking an Equities Data Engineer to join the MASS trading team. You will onboard, transform, and manage diverse financial datasets and collaborate with traders, researchers, and quantitative developers to develop delta-one strategies.

The role involves building resilient data pipelines, ensuring data quality and governance, and optimizing storage and processing across on-prem, cloud, and hybrid environments.