Databento - Systems Engineer

Hybrid - Portland - Boston1mo ago

In Office Mid NA Fintech Cloud Computing Systems Engineer Linux Puppet Terraform Ansible Python

Requirements

• 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. • Prior internship experience or 2+ years in full-time systems engineering or infrastructure roles. • Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or a related field. • Candidates must be authorized to work in the U.S.; H-1B visa sponsorship is 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 a 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).

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.