Storage & Data Infra Engineer for Scalable Platforms

Fintal Partners; Chicago (IL); On-site; USD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

Fintal Partners is seeking an engineer to join our Data Engineering Infrastructure group to build and scale storage and data platforms behind a high-frequency trading operation. The role is hands-on, tuning Linux, running large storage systems, and automating infrastructure.

You will deploy and run storage across Hadoop, enterprise storage and S3-compatible systems, optimize I/O performance, automate with Ansible/Puppet, and add Observability with Prometheus.

Qualifications

• 5+ years in systems engineering focused on data storage.
• Strong Linux fundamentals and I/O performance tuning.
• Experience with automation/config management (Ansible or Puppet).
• Experience with Hadoop ecosystem (YARN) and S3-compatible storage.

Responsibilities

• Build and operate large-scale storage infrastructure across Hadoop, enterprise storage, and S3-compatible systems.
• Tune Linux I/O performance for throughput and latency.
• Automate deployment and configuration with Ansible, Puppet or similar tools.
• Add observability to the platform using Prometheus and related tooling.
• Collaborate with engineering teams to deliver robust data solutions, especially around storage and Kafka.
• Some exposure to Kubernetes.

Skills

Systems engineering

Linux performance tuning

Open-source storage technologies

Hadoop/YARN

Java

Python

Prometheus monitoring

Tools

Ansible

Puppet

Prometheus

Kubernetes

Job description

Fintal Partners is seeking an engineer to join our Data Engineering Infrastructure group to build and scale storage and data platforms behind a high-frequency trading operation. The role is hands-on, tuning Linux, running large storage systems, and automating infrastructure.

You will deploy and run storage across Hadoop, enterprise storage and S3-compatible systems, optimize I/O performance, automate with Ansible/Puppet, and add Observability with Prometheus.