Remote-First Low-Latency Trading Network Engineer

Nascent; Austin (TX); On-site; USD 140,000 - 190,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Remote-first, distributed team

Strong bonus upside tied to perf

Hardware & home-office stipend

Health benefits (medical/dental/vision

Open vacation policy & flexible hours

Job summary

Nascent seeks a hands-on Network Engineer to own the critical connectivity that links trading systems to exchanges and colo facilities. You will design low-latency topologies, manage cross-connects, and ensure precise time sync, while building tools to monitor and automate the stack.

You will be one of two engineers with end-to-end ownership, handling incidents, firewall policies, and on-call responsibilities, in a remote-first, distributed environment with competitive compensation.

Qualifications

• 3+ years hands-on with L2/L3 networking in latency-sensitive, colocation, or trading environments.
• Strong working knowledge of BGP and OSPF — configuration, troubleshooting, and design in production.
• Production experience with PTP (IEEE 1588) or comparable precision time synchronization.
• Proficiency in Python for network automation, configuration management, or tooling.
• Hands-on firewall configuration and management (Cisco ASA, Palo Alto, or equivalent).
• Packet capture and protocol-level troubleshooting (tcpdump, Wireshark).
• Nice to have: CCNP/CCIE, IaC (Ansible/Terraform), hybrid-cloud connectivity (AWS Direct Connect, Azure ExpressRoute), DPDK/kernel-bypass.

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

Python scripting

Incident ownership

Network design

Automation mindset

Tools

BGP

OSPF

Firewall config

tcpdump

Wireshark

Cisco ASA

Palo Alto

Job description

Nascent seeks a hands-on Network Engineer to own the critical connectivity that links trading systems to exchanges and colo facilities. You will design low-latency topologies, manage cross-connects, and ensure precise time sync, while building tools to monitor and automate the stack.

You will be one of two engineers with end-to-end ownership, handling incidents, firewall policies, and on-call responsibilities, in a remote-first, distributed environment with competitive compensation.