Systems Engineer

Databento is a startup that builds modern APIs to get financial data. As a Series A startup weve raised $37.8M to date and grown our revenues by over 958% Y/Y in the past yearall with a team of fewer than 30 employees.

Were looking for a systems engineer (on parity with L3 to L5 at a large tech firm) to join our systems team. Our team manages the backbone of Databentos platform from Ceph storage and high-throughput networking to bare metal and containerized deployments across multiple data centers. Youll work hands-on with a 25 GbE network stack distributed storage exceeding 4 PB and a modern hybrid environment spanning self-hosted and cloud systems.

We offer health dental disability and life insurance benefits as well as 401(k) matching for full-time employees. We accommodate 100% remote work with teammates living around the globe and paid in their local currency.

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.
• Bachelors 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).
• AbilitytotraveltodatacentersinNewJerseyorBostononshortnotice(withinoneweek).

Our recruiting data suggests that underrepresented applicants often downplay their skills. Even if your experience doesnt exactly match the qualifications listed we still want to hear from you. Please apply!