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This is a hands-on build-and-operate role: you'll design low-latency network topologies, manage colocation cross-connects and exchange connectivity, maintain precision time synchronization, and keep firewall and routing policy tight. You'll work alongside systems engineers, SREs, and quant infrastructure teams who treat deterministic performance as a first-class engineering discipline.\nThis isn't a ticket-queue seat inside a large NOC. You'll be one of two network engineers with direct ownership over architecture decisions, vendor relationships, and the tooling you build to monitor and automate the stack - designing connectivity from scratch, not just maintaining what someone else built. The problems are real: packet captures at the switch port, PTP drift investigations, firewall policy reviews that directly affect trade flow - and you'll have the autonomy to solve them end to end. This position must be geographically located within +/- 3 hours EST.\n Responsibilities\nOwn colocation connectivity: cross-connects, exchange feeds, and carrier relationships across production colo facilities.\n\nDesign and maintain low-latency L2/L3 network topologies for trading infrastructure.\n\nConfigure, troubleshoot, and optimize BGP and OSPF routing in production.\n\nMaintain precision time synchronization (PTP / IEEE 1588) across trading and infrastructure systems.\n\nManage firewall policy (Cisco ASA, Palo Alto, or equivalent) - changes that directly affect production traffic paths.\n\nWrite Python tooling for network automation, configuration management, and operational monitoring.\n\nPerform packet capture and protocol-level troubleshooting (tcpdump, Wireshark).\n\nBuild and maintain runbooks, network diagrams, and infrastructure documentation.\n\nParticipate in the on-call rotation and own incidents end to end, from triage through post-mortem.\n\nAbout you\nYou've worked in latency-sensitive, colocation, or trading environments - you understand why microseconds matter and how network decisions land on execution.\n\nYou design infrastructure from scratch rather than only operating what someone else built.\n\nYou script your way out of repetitive work; automation is instinct, not an afterthought.\n\nYou own incidents end to end - you don't escalate and wait, you dig in until it's resolved.\n\nYou're comfortable as one of two network engineers: small team, real ownership, nowhere to hide.\n\nYou treat on-call as part of the craft, not an imposition.\n\nYou translate network decisions into language systems engineers, SREs, and quant teams can act on.\n\n Preferred experience\n3+ years hands-on with L2/L3 networking in latency-sensitive, colocation, or trading environments.\n\nStrong working knowledge of BGP and OSPF - configuration, troubleshooting, and design in production.\n\nProduction experience with PTP (IEEE 1588) or comparable precision time synchronization.\n\nProficiency in Python for network automation, configuration management, or operational tooling.\n\nHands-on firewall configuration and management (Cisco ASA, Palo Alto, or equivalent).\n\nPacket capture and protocol-level troubleshooting (tcpdump, Wireshark).\n\nNice to have: CCNP/CCIE with practical work behind it; IaC for network config (Ansible, Terraform); hybrid-cloud connectivity (AWS Direct Connect, Azure ExpressRoute); DPDK or kernel-bypass exposure.\n\nAbout Nascent\nFounded in 2020, Nascent exists to build, expand, and capture opportunity, in open markets and permissionless technologies. Building from a base of permanent capital, we deploy assets across a range of both liquid and long-term strategies that ensure we are among the most active users of the open financial system we are helping to build. We’ve backed 100+ early-stage teams that we believe can change markets and expand what’s possible. At Nascent, we combine that venture + market pedigree with product-grade engineering to turn research into revenue: experiments that ship fast, are evaluated rigorously, and move P&L. We focus on models, low-latency infrastructure, and resilient systems that compound performance over time.\nOur Team & Culture\nWe’re an interdisciplinary team of engineers, quants, and operators who treat skill-building like a sport. The culture is competition + curiosity: push to win, share learnings, and iterate publicly through red-teams, internal games, and post-mortems. Autonomy isn’t a perk - it’s how we ship.\nPrinciples that drive our team & work\nCompete to win\n\nExplore, experiment, play\n\nAlways be building\n\nSeek and speak truth\n\nOwn your shit.\n\n What We Offer\nThe opportunity to learn, experiment and build in an entrepreneurial environment\n\nRemote-first, distributed team with frequent in-person sprints and retreats.\n\nCompetitive total comp with strong bonus upside tied to performance.\n\nHardware & home-office stipend, conference and learning budgets.\n\nComprehensive health benefits (medical/dental/vision), life insurance.\n\nOpen vacation policy as well as flexible work hours and location\n\n16 weeks fully-paid parental leave + supported return to work.\n\nRetirement matching, open vacation policy, flexible hours.\n\nWe are an equal opportunity employer and welcome diverse perspectives.","description_format":"text","description_chars":5387,"description_truncated":false,"requirements":{"experience_years_min":3,"management_years_min":null,"team_size_min":null,"manages_managers":false,"education":null,"security_clearance":false,"languages":[]},"benefits":["Flexible schedule","Life insurance","Parental leave"],"hiring_locations":[],"hiring_excludes":[],"relocation_offered":false,"industries":["Blockchain Infrastructure","Angel Networks & Startup Accelerators"],"lifecycle":[{"event":"open","at":"2026-09-13T06:26:35Z"}],"visa":[],"liveness":{"score":16,"band":"cold","label":"Long shot","p_open":1,"p_active":0.461,"p_room":0.35,"age_days":64,"expected_fill_days":30,"reasons":["conf:2","win:tail"],"computed_at":"2026-11-07T05:47:08Z"},"pay":null,"html_url":"https://alion.io/job/nascent-markets-network-engineer","json_url":"https://alion.io/job/nascent-markets-network-engineer.json","meta":{"generated_at":"2026-11-08T02:54:43Z","cache_seconds":300,"methodology":"https://alion.io/methodology","terms":"https://alion.io/terms","contact":"https://alion.io/contact","api":"https://alion.io/developers","about":"Alion is a live layer of people, companies and AI agents: who they are, whether they are real and active right now, what they do and how to work with them, readable by people and by agents and paid per call.","catalog":"https://alion.io/catalog.json","usage":{"tier":"crawler_verified","counted_by":"address","units_charged":1,"used_today":6229,"day_limit":null,"remaining_today":null,"minute_limit":300,"resets_at":"2026-11-09T00:00:00Z"}},"offers":[{"id":"company.slices","title":"One company in depth, by slice","status":"live","price":{"credits":0.02,"usd":0.002,"plus_per_slice":{"credits":0.05,"usd":0.005}},"unit":"per company, plus each slice with data","note":"the employer in depth","call":{"mcp_tool":"get_company","arguments":{"id":1178},"rest":"https://alion.io/mcp/rest/get_company?id=1178"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=company.slices&for=job%2Fnascent-markets-network-engineer"},{"id":"market.stats","title":"A market slice: pay, demand and time to fill","status":"live","price":{"credits":1,"usd":0.1},"unit":"per slice","note":"pay, demand and time to fill for this role and place","call":{"mcp_tool":"market_stats"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=market.stats&for=job%2Fnascent-markets-network-engineer"},{"id":"job.search","title":"Open jobs by role, technology, place, pay and visa","status":"live","price":{"credits":0.02,"usd":0.002},"unit":"per posting in a list","note":"similar open postings","call":{"mcp_tool":"search_jobs"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=job.search&for=job%2Fnascent-markets-network-engineer"},{"id":"company.verify","title":"Is this company real and active right now","status":"pilot","price":null,"unit":"per company","request":{"url":"https://alion.io/catalog/request","method":"POST","body":"{\"offer\": \"company.verify\", \"for\": \"job/nascent-markets-network-engineer\", \"note\": \"what you need it for\"}"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=company.verify&for=job%2Fnascent-markets-network-engineer"}],"agent":{"mcp":"https://alion.io/mcp/jobs","mcp_open":"https://alion.io/mcp/open","next":[{"tool":"get_job","arguments":{"id":855527}},{"tool":"search_jobs","arguments":{"company":"nascentmarkets.xyz","detail":"compact"}},{"tool":"match_people","arguments":{"job_id":855527},"note":"people open to offers who fit this vacancy"}],"note":"The same data through MCP tools: https://alion.io/mcp/open needs no sign-in (compact searches, postings, people); https://alion.io/mcp with an Alion account has everything. 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