Latency-Driven Network Engineer — Remote

Nascent; United States; Remote; USD 150,000 - 250,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Remote-first

Hardware stipend

Learning budgets

Health benefits

Parental leave 16 weeks

Retirement matching

Open vacation policy

Job summary

Nascent is seeking a hands-on network engineer to own the infrastructure connecting trading systems to exchanges and colo facilities. You’ll design low-latency topologies, manage cross-connects, and ensure precise time sync while shaping the tooling to monitor and automate the stack.

You’ll operate in a small team of two, own incidents end to end, and translate network decisions for SRE, quant, and systems teams. Remote-first culture with strong compensation and benefits.

Qualifications

• 3+ years hands-on with L2/L3 networking in latency-sensitive environments.
• Strong working knowledge of BGP and OSPF in production.
• Production experience with PTP (IEEE 1588) or similar precision time synchronization.
• Proficiency in Python for network automation and tooling.
• Hands-on firewall configuration and management (Cisco ASA, Palo Alto, or equivalent).
• Packet capture and protocol-level troubleshooting (tcpdump, Wireshark).

Responsibilities

• Own colocation connectivity: cross-connects, exchange feeds, and carrier relationships across production colo facilities.
• Design and maintain low-latency L2/L3 network topologies for trading infrastructure.
• Configure, troubleshoot, and optimize BGP and OSPF routing in production.
• Maintain precision time synchronization (PTP / IEEE 1588) across trading and infrastructure systems.
• Manage firewall policy (Cisco ASA, Palo Alto, or equivalent) — changes that directly affect production traffic paths.
• Write Python tooling for network automation, configuration management, and operational monitoring.
• Perform packet capture and protocol-level troubleshooting (tcpdump, Wireshark).
• Build and maintain runbooks, network diagrams, and infrastructure documentation.
• Participate in the on-call rotation and own incidents end to end, from triage through post-mortem.

Skills

Latency networking

L2/L3 networking

BGP/OSPF

PTP time sync

Python

Firewall config

Packet capture

IaC tooling

Hybrid-cloud

CCNP/CCIE

Tools

tcpdump

Wireshark

Cisco ASA

Palo Alto

Ansible

Terraform

Job description

Nascent is seeking a hands-on network engineer to own the infrastructure connecting trading systems to exchanges and colo facilities. You’ll design low-latency topologies, manage cross-connects, and ensure precise time sync while shaping the tooling to monitor and automate the stack.

You’ll operate in a small team of two, own incidents end to end, and translate network decisions for SRE, quant, and systems teams. Remote-first culture with strong compensation and benefits.