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Systems Engineer

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COMPANYDatabento

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.

Required qualifications:

  • 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).