Data Platform Operations Engineer – Performance

We are looking for a data-focused engineer with a strong operational focus to support the Performance Teams data platform at IMC. This role is responsible for the reliability correctness and performance of data systems that directly support performance analysis and decision-making.

The role is production-facing and works closely with the Performance team and aligned stakeholders to ensure data workflows are robust observable and efficient.

What youll do:

• Own the operational health of the Performance Teams data platform
• Monitor and maintain ETLs and data pipelines for correctness timeliness and stability
• Design and maintain data quality checks reports and alerting specific to performance data
• Investigate and resolve data issues and pipeline failures driving problems to root cause
• Own and troubleshoot GitLab CI/CD pipeline issues related to performance data workflows
• Monitor workloads and resource usage; identify and resolve imbalances and bottlenecks
• Build and maintain operational tooling automation and runbooks
• Continuously tune data pipelines and workloads to improve performance and resource efficiency

What you bring:

• 3 years of experience in software engineering or data engineering with an operational or production focus
• A Bachelors Degree in Computer Science or a related field is strongly preferred
• Proficiency in Python with hands-on experience using PySpark and Pandas
• Experience supporting production ETL or data processing systems
• Familiarity with Git-based development workflows and CI/CD systems (GitLab preferred)
• Strong analytical skills and attention to detail
• Comfortable taking ownership in a performance- and reliability-critical environment

Nice to Have

• Experience working with performance-critical or high-throughput systems
• Exposure to workload scheduling resource management or cluster-based compute

What Success Looks Like

• Performance data pipelines are reliable observable and trusted
• Issues are detected early and resolved quickly with clear root-cause ownership
• Workloads are well-balanced and systems run efficiently

About Us

IMC is a global trading firm powered by a cutting-edge research environment and a world-class technology backbone. Since 1989 weve been a stabilizing force in financial markets providing essential liquidity upon which market participants depend. Across our offices in the US Europe Asia Pacific and India our talented quant researchers engineers traders and business operations professionals are united by our uniquely collaborative high-performance culture and our commitment to giving back. From entering dynamic new markets to embracing disruptive technologies and from developing an innovative research environment to diversifying our trading strategies we dare to continuously innovate and collaborate to succeed.