{"id":1602864,"url":"https://alion.io/job/susquehanna-international-group-systems-and-database-engineer-database-services","title":"Systems and Database Engineer | Database Services","company":{"id":4917,"name":"Susquehanna International Group","domain":"sig.com","url":"https://alion.io/company/sig","size_band":"1001-5000","is_staffing_agency":false,"employer_type":"direct","is_intermediary":false,"listed_via":null,"ats_vendor":"iCIMS","truth_index":null},"role":"Data Science","role_family":"Data Science","seniority":"junior","employment_type":null,"work_mode":"on_site","remote_scope":null,"remote_scope_basis":null,"remote_working_hours":null,"hiring_geo_confidence":"structured","locations":["Philadelphia, United States"],"countries":["US"],"hiring_countries":[],"hiring_countries_total":0,"salary":null,"salary_estimate":{"min_usd":99000,"max_usd":206000,"period":"year","method":"role_seniority_country_remote_cell","sample_n":356},"experience_years_min":1,"visa_sponsorship":false,"relocation_package":false,"has_equity":false,"technologies":[{"name":"ClickHouse","optional":false},{"name":"InfluxDB","optional":false},{"name":"Kubernetes","optional":false},{"name":"Linux","optional":false},{"name":"MariaDB","optional":false},{"name":"Python","optional":false},{"name":"SQL","optional":false},{"name":"Grafana","optional":true},{"name":"Machine Learning","optional":true},{"name":"Neo4j","optional":true},{"name":"Oracle","optional":true},{"name":"Prometheus","optional":true},{"name":"Terraform","optional":true}],"status":"live","first_seen_at":"2026-10-01T19:35:46Z","employer_posted_date":"2026-10-01","last_verified_at":"2026-10-24T20:08:17Z","board_verified":true,"closed_at":null,"days_open":23,"trust":{"level":"ok","repost_count":null,"flags":[],"days_open":23},"description":"Overview\nOur Production Services Team is looking for a skilled engineer with a strong foundation in database technologies and systems engineering - not a traditional DBA, but someone who understands how databases fit into broader system architecture and can collaborate across disciplines to drive performance, reliability, and scalability.\nThis role is part of a front office support team, focused on application database engineering for trading platforms and directly supporting traders in a high-performance, low-latency environment.\nKey Responsibilities\nDesign, deploy, and maintain relational and non-relational database systems at scale (hundreds of millions to billions of records, TB-scale datasets), including MariaDB, MongoDB, InfluxDB, and ClickHouse.\nOptimize query performance through advanced indexing strategies, execution plan analysis, and schema design.\nDevelop Python tooling and automation to support database operations, maintenance workflows, and system health.\nEnsure high availability and reliability through replication, failover design, and disaster recovery planning.\nOperate confidently in production environments - diagnosing and resolving time-sensitive issues with composure and precision.\nManage and scale containerized database workloads using Kubernetes, including ClickHouse deployments.\nMonitor system health using observability tooling and proactively address performance degradation.\nCollaborate with developers, researchers, and platform engineers to support data-intensive applications.\nApply AI tooling and best practices to accelerate engineering workflows.\nWhat we’re looking for\nCore Requirements\nBachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, or a related field - or equivalent practical experience.\n1-5 years of experience in database engineering, systems engineering, or a related discipline.\nStrong proficiency in SQL and deep working knowledge of relational databases - complex query manipulation, indexing, partitioning, replication, and high availability.\nSolid Python development skills - able to write production-quality scripts and tooling, not just one-off automation.\nGood understanding of Kubernetes - deploying, managing, and debugging containerized workloads.\nStrong Linux fundamentals - shell scripting, process management, system monitoring, and core command-line fluency.\nComfort operating in a production environment - you handle pressure well and take ownership of reliability.\nWorking knowledge of AI tools and best practices for engineering workflows.\nNice to Have\nGraph database experience (e.g., Neo4j or similar).\nOracle database experience.\nProxySQL configuration and routing experience.\nInfrastructure-as-code experience with Terraform.\nFamiliarity with Prometheus and Grafana for observability and alerting.\nPrior experience in a production or trading environment.\nAbout Susquehanna\nSusquehanna is a global quantitative trading firm powered by scientific rigor, curiosity, and innovation. Our culture is intellectually driven and highly collaborative, bringing together researchers, engineers, and traders to design and deploy impactful strategies in our systematic trading environment. To meet the unique challenges of global markets, Susquehanna applies machine learning and advanced quantitative research to vast datasets in order to uncover actionable insights and build effective strategies. By uniting deep market expertise with cutting-edge technology, we excel in solving complex problems and pushing boundaries together.\nIf you're a recruiting agency and want to partner with us, please reach out to . Any resume or referral submitted in the absence of a signed agreement will not be eligible for an agency fee.","description_format":"text","description_chars":3723,"description_truncated":false,"requirements":{"experience_years_min":1,"management_years_min":null,"team_size_min":null,"manages_managers":false,"education":{"level":"bachelor","optional":true},"security_clearance":false,"languages":[]},"benefits":[],"hiring_locations":[],"hiring_excludes":[],"relocation_offered":false,"industries":["Hedge Funds & Alternative Investments"],"lifecycle":[{"event":"open","at":"2026-10-01T19:35:46Z"}],"visa":[{"country":"US","licensed_sponsor":true,"evidence":"H-1B filings in 12 months: 74 · green card filings: 31","filings_12m":74,"filings_prev_12m":70,"green_card_filings_12m":31,"median_offered_wage_usd":87500,"route":null,"cap_exempt":false,"checked_at":"2026-10-15T11:24:14+00:00","sources":["US Department of Labor: LCA disclosure data (H-1B, H-1B1, E-3)","US Department of Labor: PERM disclosure data (green cards)"],"filings_for_role_12m":7}],"liveness":{"score":14,"band":"cold","label":"Long shot","p_open":1,"p_active":0.387,"p_room":0.35,"age_days":22,"expected_fill_days":8,"reasons":["conf:2","velocity","win:tail","comp:junior,brand"],"computed_at":"2026-10-24T06:02:35Z"},"pay":null,"html_url":"https://alion.io/job/susquehanna-international-group-systems-and-database-engineer-database-services","json_url":"https://alion.io/job/susquehanna-international-group-systems-and-database-engineer-database-services.json","meta":{"generated_at":"2026-10-24T21:28:19Z","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":31534,"day_limit":null,"remaining_today":null,"minute_limit":300,"resets_at":"2026-10-25T00:00:00Z"}},"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":4917},"rest":"https://alion.io/mcp/rest/get_company?id=4917"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=company.slices&for=job%2Fsusquehanna-international-group-systems-and-database-engineer-database-services"},{"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%2Fsusquehanna-international-group-systems-and-database-engineer-database-services"},{"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%2Fsusquehanna-international-group-systems-and-database-engineer-database-services"},{"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/susquehanna-international-group-systems-and-database-engineer-database-services\", \"note\": \"what you need it for\"}"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=company.verify&for=job%2Fsusquehanna-international-group-systems-and-database-engineer-database-services"}]}