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Combining software engineering with operational ownership, you'll troubleshoot production issues, onboard new datasets, improve platform reliability, and build the systems that keep our trading teams supplied with high-quality data every day.\nWhat you'll do\nAs a Data Operations Engineer, your key responsibilities include:\nOperational Ownership\nServe as the primary point of contact for traders, researchers, and engineers on data platform issues and operational support\nInvestigate and resolve data quality, freshness, and availability issues across business-critical datasets\nMonitor data ingestion pipelines, scheduled workflows, and real-time market data feeds, responding rapidly to alerts and minimizing production impact\nPartner directly with external data vendors to resolve upstream issues, manage specification changes, and ensure timely delivery of accurate datasets\nCommunicate clearly during production incidents, providing timely updates and driving issues through to resolution\nEngineering & Platform Reliability\nIntegrate and operationalize new datasets, including schema mapping, normalization, historical backfills, and metadata management\nDesign, build, and maintain reliable, scalable ETL/ELT pipelines supporting both real-time trading systems and research platforms\nDevelop automated data quality validation, monitoring, and anomaly detection frameworks to proactively identify issues\nModel and normalize complex financial datasets to ensure they are accurate, consistent, and production-ready\nBuild and maintain high-performance APIs that expose market and reference data to trading, research, and analytics platforms\nPartner closely with traders, researchers, and engineering teams to understand evolving data requirements and deliver scalable solutions\nContribute to the ongoing evolution of Optiver's global data platform, improving reliability, observability, and operational excellence\nWhat you'll get\nYou'll join a culture of collaboration and excellence, surrounded by curious thinkers and creative problem-solvers. 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