Low-Latency Network Engineer — Evening Shift (Remote)

MEMX; Northern (KY); Hybrid; USD 130,000 - 160,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Work From Home

Life Insurance (Basic, Voluntary & AD&

Unlimited Paid Time Off

Generous Paid Family Leave

Short Term & Long-Term Disability

Training & Development

Wellness Resources

Job summary

MEMX is seeking a Network Engineer to design, implement, and maintain its low latency trading infrastructure. The role operates on a 4 PM–1 AM ET shift, Monday to Friday, with responsibilities spanning network design, configuration, incident response, and customer turn-ups.

Applicants should have 5+ years in distributed systems networking, knowledge of BGP/NAT, scripting with Python/Ansible, and familiarity with network OS like EOS/IOS/PanOS. MEMX offers comprehensive benefits and WFH options.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of hands-on experience with low latency, highly available distributed systems and the network architectures needed to run them.
• Understanding of layer2 and layer3 network protocols e.g. IGMP, MLAG, ARP, BGP, NAT, PIM.
• Understanding of IP multicast routing e.g. PIM-SM, PIM-Bidir.
• Experience with network operating systems (EOS, IOS, PanOS).
• Understanding of timing protocols NTP, PTP.
• Understanding of various optical fiber types and transceivers.
• Scripting experience (Python, Ansible) preferred.
• Ability to analyze packet captures using tools like Wireshark, tcpdump.
• Mac, Linux familiarity preferred.
• Experience with firewalld design and configuration.

Responsibilities

• Design, implement and support the low latency exchange network environment.
• Configure enterprise and production network devices with Ansible and Python as required.
• Respond to network alerts and error logs.
• Respond to network incidents, remediate and perform RCA.
• Perform new customer connection turn-ups.
• Work on customer tickets such as add/mod IP prefixes and troubleshoot connectivity.
• Perform new product analysis and validation.
• Coordinate with Security and business teams to engineer secure end user solutions.
• Collaborate with Data Center and Circuit providers to improve efficiency and performance.

Skills

Low latency systems

Distributed systems

Networking knowledge

Python

Ansible

Wireshark

Linux

Firewalld

Tools

EOS

IOS

PanOS

Job description

MEMX is seeking a Network Engineer to design, implement, and maintain its low latency trading infrastructure. The role operates on a 4 PM–1 AM ET shift, Monday to Friday, with responsibilities spanning network design, configuration, incident response, and customer turn-ups.

Applicants should have 5+ years in distributed systems networking, knowledge of BGP/NAT, scripting with Python/Ansible, and familiarity with network OS like EOS/IOS/PanOS. MEMX offers comprehensive benefits and WFH options.