Systems Engineer
Databento · Remote / Boston / Salt Lake City / San Francisco / New York
About this role
## Systems Engineer ### About the role Databento is the market data platform for modern finance, providing real-time and historical data across futures, options, and equities through a unified API. The Systems team manages the company’s infrastructure fleet end-to-end, including dense storage clusters, compute, low-latency networking and systems, capture topologies, and more. We’re looking for a midlevel or senior IC to join our Systems team. ### 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 - 5+ years of full-time experience in systems engineering or infrastructure roles - Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or a related field - Authorized to work in the U.S. (H-1B visa sponsorship 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 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) ### Benefits & compensation - Health, dental, disability, and life insurance - 401(k) matching for full-time employees - 100% remote work (teammates paid in their local currency) - Base salary range: **$150,000–$230,000** (tiered by Tier 1 locations) - Total compensation may include bonuses, commissions, and equity depending on the role ### Phishing scam notice Be cautious of phishing scams impersonating Databento that offer fake job interviews and request purchases. Official emails come only from **@databento.com** or **us.greenhouse-mail.io** (our ATS). Any other domains (e.g., databento-careers.com, databento.online) are fraudulent. ### Equal opportunity Databento provides equal employment opportunities to all applicants. If you need an accommodation, please let us know. *Our recruiting data suggests that underrepresented applicants often downplay their skills—apply even if you don’t match every qualification.*
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