Remote Network Engineer, Low-Latency Trading Infra

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 PTO

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, with a second shift 12 AM–9 AM ET, Monday through Friday. The role focuses on reliable, high-performance networks for exchange services.

You'll work with Ansible and Python for configuration, respond to alerts, perform RCA, support new customer connections, and collaborate with security and data center teams to optimize cost and performance.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of hands-on experience with low latency, highly available distributed systems.
• Understanding of layer2 and layer3 network protocols e.g. IGMP, MLAG, ARP, BGP, NAT, PIM
• Understanding of timing protocols NTP,PTP
• Scripting experience (Python, Ansible) preferred
• Experience with firewalld design and configuration

Responsibilities

• Work to design, implement and support the low latency exchange network environment
• Configure the 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, troubleshoot connectivity
• Perform new product analysis and validation
• Coordinate with the Security and business teams to help engineer/implement secure end user solutions
• Work with Data Center and Circuit providers to continually move the exchange infrastructure forward on more cost efficient and performant options

Skills

Low latency networks

Distributed systems

Python/Ansible scripting

Network monitoring

Wireshark analysis

Linux

Firewalld configuration

Timing protocols (NTP/PTP)

IP multicast (PIM-SM, PIM-Bidir)

BGP/Layer3 protocols

Tools

Ansible

Python

Wireshark

Job description

MEMX is seeking a Network Engineer to design, implement and maintain its low latency trading infrastructure, with a second shift 12 AM–9 AM ET, Monday through Friday. The role focuses on reliable, high-performance networks for exchange services.

You'll work with Ansible and Python for configuration, respond to alerts, perform RCA, support new customer connections, and collaborate with security and data center teams to optimize cost and performance.