Network Team Lead, Systematic Trading Infrastructure

Point72; New York (NY); On-site; USD 250,000 - 350,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health care benefits

Parental leave

Volunteer opportunities

Affinity groups

Wellness programs

Tuition assistance

401(k) match

Job summary

Point72’s Technology team is building and evolving a high-performance trading network in New York. The ideal candidate leads a global network group, owns the WAN roadmap, and designs ultra-low-latency fabrics for collocated sites and exchanges.

You will drive automation, mentor engineers, and collaborate with senior stakeholders to ensure secure, reliable market data and connectivity for trading activities.

Qualifications

• Production trading network infrastructure experience in colocation environments.
• Expertise in BGP and IP routing for WAN/extranet.
• Low-latency data center fabric design experience.
• Knowledge of load balancers and firewalls for trading infra.
• Experience with multicast market data distribution and feed delivery.
• Time synchronization and packet capture at line rate.
• Leadership or mentorship of engineers and strong ethics.

Responsibilities

• Lead a global network team connecting trading strategies to markets.
• Own architectural roadmap for collocated trading WAN.
• Design and operate ultra-low-latency network fabrics.
• Evaluate and monitor inter-site circuits for latency and stability.
• Manage BGP, IP routing, load balancers, firewalls, and segmentation.
• Own market data connectivity and feed delivery reliability.
• Lead venue/broker connectivity onboarding for orders.
• Monitor latency, packet capture, and telemetry.
• Drive automation for changes using AI-assisted approaches.
• Develop engineers and communicate architecture to stakeholders.

Skills

BGP & IP routing

Low-latency data center

Load balancer & firewall

Multicast market data

DWDM & optical transport

Precision time sync

Kernel bypass / low-latency networking

Mentoring engineers

Ethical standards

Tools

DWDM equipment

Latency analysis tools

Job description

A Career with Point72’s Technology Team

As Point72 reimagines the future of investing, our Technology team is constantly evolving our firm’s IT infrastructure and engineering capabilities, positioning us at the forefront of a rapidly evolving technology landscape. We’re a team of experts who experiment and work to discover new ways to harness open-source solutions, modern cloud architectures, and sophisticated Artificial Intelligence (AI) solutions, while embracing enterprise agile methodologies. Our commitment to building and innovating in the AI space provides the framework intended to drive smarter decision making and enhance how we build and operate our platforms and applications.

As a member of Point72’s Technology team, we encourage and support your professional development from day one—helping you advance your technical skills, contribute innovative ideas, and satisfy your own intellectual curiosity—all while delivering real business impact for our multi-billion-dollar global business.

What you’ll do

• Lead a specialized global network team that owns the critical path between trading strategies and markets across collocated sites and inter-site connectivity
• Own the architectural roadmap for the collocated trading environment and wide area network (WAN) connecting exchange sites, proximity data centers, venues, brokers, and data providers
• Design and operate ultra-low-latency network fabrics, including layer 1 topologies, optical transport, structured cabling, patching strategy, and capacity planning
• Evaluate, procure, validate, and monitor inter-site circuits to ensure route latency, stability, resilience, and performance meet production trading requirements
• Manage BGP, IP routing, load balancing, firewall, and segmentation architecture across the WAN and extranet connectivity protecting the trading estate
• Own end-to-end market data connectivity, including multicast and unicast feed delivery, gap and loss analysis, arbitration paths, and line-rate reliability
• Lead venue and broker connectivity onboarding for order entry, including gateway sessions, conformance, certification, and operational readiness for new launches
• Own network latency and quality monitoring, packet capture, precision timing, and telemetry capabilities that provide evidence-based answers about network performance
• Drive automation for network changes, validations, venue onboarding, compliance checks, diagnostics, and safer change execution using modern automation and approaches assisted by artificial intelligence
• Develop engineers, set operational standards, manage vendor and colocation relationships, and communicate architectural decisions and incident findings to senior stakeholders

What’s Required

• Significant experience at a buy-side or sell-side financial firm directly responsible for production trading network infrastructure in colocation environments
• Deep expertise in BGP and IP routing across wide area network (WAN) and extranet environments supporting latency-sensitive trading connectivity
• Demonstrated experience with layer 2 and layer 3 design for low-latency data center fabrics
• Strong knowledge of load balancer and firewall platforms, segmentation architecture, and secure connectivity patterns for trading infrastructure
• Hands-on experience with multicast market data distribution, troubleshooting, gap and loss analysis, and reliable line-rate feed delivery
• Practical experience with layer 1 mux and tap, switching, optical transport, DWDM, and colocation cross-connect management
• Working knowledge of precision time synchronization, hardware timestamping, packet capture, and packet analysis at line rate
• Hands-on experience with network platforms used in latency-sensitive environments and familiarity with kernel bypass and low-latency host networking concepts
• Experience leading or mentoring engineers, either as a people manager or senior technical lead accountable for the work of others
• Commitment to the highest ethical standards

We take care of our people

WE TAKE CARE OF OUR PEOPLE

We invest in our people, their careers, their health, and their well-being. When you work here, we provide:

• Fully-paid health care benefits
• Generous parental and family leave policies
• Volunteer opportunities
• Support for employee-led affinity groups representing women, people of color and the LGBT+ community
• Mental and physical wellness programs
• Tuition assistance
• A 401(k) savings program with an employer match and more

About Point72

Point72 is a leading global alternative investment firm led by Steven A. Cohen. Building on more than 30 years of investing experience, Point72 seeks to deliver superior returns for its investors through fundamental and systematic investing strategies across asset classes and geographies. We aim to attract and retain the industry's brightest talent by cultivating an investor-led culture and committing to our people's long-term growth. For more information, visit https://point72.com/.

The annual base salary range for this role is $250,000-$350,000 (USD) , which does not include discretionary bonus compensation or our comprehensive benefits package. Actual compensation offered to the successful candidate may vary from posted hiring range based upon geographic location, work experience, education, and/or skill level, among other things.