Systems Engineer
Databento·Remote / Boston / Salt Lake City / San Francisco / New York·Remote·Posted 3 December 2025
About the role
The financial industry is growing at a record pace, but our data providers are still stuck in the past — with cumbersome onboarding processes, complicated APIs, slow infrastructure, and expensive licensing costs. Databento is the market data platform for modern finance. The company provides real-time and historical data across futures, options, and equities through a unified API. By owning the entire market data stack end-to-end, Databento is the first platform of its kind to combine the performance and reliability demanded by the world's leading trading firms with a dramatically simpler developer experience. Our team includes alumni of Two Sigma, Citadel Securities, Flow Traders, IMC, Tower Research, Jump Trading, HRT, Jane Street, and SIG. We're looking for a midlevel or senior IC to join our Systems team. Our team is responsible for managing our entire infrastructure fleet from the ground up. This includes handling dense storage clusters, compute, LL networking and systems, capture topologies, and more. Responsibilities Systems and network configuration. Bare-metal and containerized application deployment. Maintaining large storage clusters. Instrumenting performance…
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