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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.\nWe're looking for a midlevel or senior IC to join our Systems team. Our team is responsible for managing our entire infrastructure fleet from the ground up. This includes handling dense storage clusters, compute, LL networking and systems, capture topologies, and more.\nResponsibilities\nSystems and network configuration.\nBare-metal and containerized application deployment.\nMaintaining large storage clusters.\nInstrumenting performance measurement and alerts.\nImproving systems automation and tooling.\nOn-call support.\nCoordinating bulk data delivery to customers and vendor partners.\nOccasional physical infrastructure deliveries and systems provisioning.\nRequired qualifications\nStrong Linux knowledge.\nExperience with systems configuration and provisioning (PXE, Puppet, and Ansible preferred; Terraform).\nUnderstanding of storage concepts (RAID, LVM, popular filesystems, distributed storage).\nBasic networking (OSI model, IP protocols, switching/routing).\nAbility to code in Python and write shell scripts.\nDevOps/GitOps mindset.\n5+ years of full-time experience in systems engineering or infrastructure roles.\nBachelor’s degree in Computer Science or a related field.\nCandidates must be authorized to work in the U.S.; H-1B visa sponsorship is not available.\nNice-to-haves\nExperience with distributed storage systems (e.g., Ceph).\nCustomer support experience and strong problem-solving abilities.\nPrior experience at a trading or fintech firm, or a strong interest in learning fintech.\nDatabase administration (MySQL, ClickHouse, Redis).\nCloud engineering basics (AWS, GCP - compute, storage).\nVirtualization and compute workloads (Proxmox, Docker, Kubernetes, HTCondor).\nSystems and network tuning.\nMonitoring and alerting (Prometheus, Grafana, Alertmanager, Loki).\nAbility to travel to data centers in New Jersey or Boston on short notice (within one week).\nWe 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.\nThe base salary range for this role is $150,000-$230,000, benchmarked to Tier 1 locations in each country. Total compensation may also include bonuses, commissions, and equity, depending on the role.\nNotice about phishing scams\nBe 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.\n--\nDatabento, Inc. provides equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants regardless of race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, disability, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, veteran status, or genetics. We comply with federal, state, and local nondiscrimination laws in every location where we operate. 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