Systems Engineer

Databento builds a market data platform for modern finance. The Systems Engineer will manage the company’s infrastructure fleet, including storage, compute, networking, and systems, and support reliable data delivery to customers and vendor partners.

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

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
• 5+ years of full-time experience in 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
• Puppet, and Ansible preferred
• 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)