Systems Engineer

Databento; Boston (MA); On-site; USD 110,000 - 160,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health insurance

Dental insurance

Disability insurance

Life insurance

401(k) matching

100% remote work

Job summary

Databento is hiring a systems engineer to support our data platform, spanning real-time and historical data delivery across futures, options, and equities. You will manage Linux-based infrastructure, automate deployments, and maintain large storage clusters while ensuring reliability for a global customer base.

The role is fully remote with flexible work arrangements. You should have strong Linux, scripting, and DevOps experience, plus a background in infrastructure and cloud tooling.

Qualifications

• Strong Linux knowledge.
• Systems configuration and provisioning (PXE, Puppet, and Ansible preferred; Terraform).
• Storage concepts (RAID, LVM, popular filesystems, distributed storage).
• Basic networking (OSI model, IP protocols, switching/routing).
• Ability to code in Python and write shell scripts.
• DevOps/GitOps mindset.
• Prior internship experience or 2+ years in full-time systems engineering or infrastructure roles.
• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or a related field.
• Candidates must be authorized to work in the U.S.; H-1B visa sponsorship is not available.

Responsibilities

• Configure systems and networks for deployment.
• Deploy bare-metal and containerized applications.
• Maintain large storage clusters.
• Instrument performance measurement and alerts.
• Improve systems automation and tooling.
• Provide on-call support.
• Coordinate bulk data delivery to customers and vendor partners.
• Occasional provisioning and data center tasks.

Skills

Linux knowledge

Python scripting

Shell scripting

DevOps mindset

GitOps mindset

Networking basics

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or related field

Tools

Puppet

Ansible

Terraform

Docker

Kubernetes

Proxmox

Ceph

Prometheus

Grafana

Job description

The financial industry is growing at a record pace, but our data providers are still stuck in the past - with cumbersome onboarding processes, complicated APIs, slow infrastructure, and expensive licensing costs.

Databento is the market data platform for modern finance. The company provides real-time and historical data across futures, options, and equities through a unified API. By owning the entire market data stack end-to-end, Databento is the first platform of its kind to combine the performance and reliability demanded by the world's leading trading firms with a dramatically simpler developer experience. Our team includes alumni of Two Sigma, Citadel Securities, Flow Traders, Tower Research, PDT Partners, SIG, and other top quantitative firms.

We offer health, dental, disability, and life insurance benefits, as well as 401(k) matching for full-time employees. We accommodate 100% remote work, with teammates living around the globe and paid in their local currency.

Responsibilities

• Systems and network configuration.
• Bare-metal and containerized application deployment.
• Maintaining large storage clusters.
• Instrumenting performance measurement and alerts.
• Improving systems automation and tooling.
• On-call support.
• Coordinating bulk data delivery to customers and vendor partners.
• Occasional physical infrastructure deliveries and systems provisioning.

Required Qualifications

• Strong Linux knowledge.
• Experience with systems configuration and provisioning (PXE, Puppet, and Ansible preferred; Terraform).
• Understanding of storage concepts (RAID, LVM, popular filesystems, distributed storage).
• Basic networking (OSI model, IP protocols, switching/routing).
• Ability to code in Python and write shell scripts.
• DevOps/GitOps mindset.
• Prior internship experience or 2+ years in full-time systems engineering or infrastructure roles.
• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or a related field.
• Candidates must be authorized to work in the U.S.; H-1B visa sponsorship is not available.

Nice-to-haves

• Experience with distributed storage systems (e.g., Ceph).
• Customer support experience and strong problem-solving abilities.
• Prior experience at a trading or fintech firm, or a strong interest in learning fintech.
• Database administration (MySQL, ClickHouse, Redis).
• Cloud engineering basics (AWS, GCP - compute, storage).
• Virtualization and compute workloads (Proxmox, Docker, Kubernetes, HTCondor).
• Systems and network tuning.
• Monitoring and alerting (Prometheus, Grafana, Alertmanager, Loki).
• Ability to travel to data centers in New Jersey or Boston on short notice (within one week).

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