Systems Engineer at Databento — Boston, United States

About The Role

Join our team as a Systems Engineer, where you will be responsible for systems and network configuration, application deployment, maintaining large storage clusters, and improving systems automation and tooling. You will also provide on-call support, coordinate bulk data delivery, and occasionally handle physical infrastructure deliveries and systems provisioning. This position offers a competitive benefits package, including 401k, health and dental insurance, and unlimited PTO.

Configurer les systèmes et les réseaux, déployer des applications sur bare-metal et en conteneur, et maintenir des clusters de stockage.
Améliorer l'automatisation des systèmes et les outils, instrumenter la mesure de performance et les alertes, et fournir un support d'appel.
Coordonner la livraison de données en vrac aux clients et aux partenaires, et effectuer des livraisons d'infrastructure physique.
Prior internship experience or 2+ years in full-time systems engineering or infrastructure roles
Ability to code in Python and write shell scripts
Candidates must be authorized to work in the U.S.; H-1B visa sponsorship is not available
Basic networking (OSI model, IP protocols, switching/routing)
Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or a related field
DevOps/GitOps mindset
Experience with systems configuration and provisioning (PXE, Puppet, and Ansible preferred; Terraform)
Understanding of storage concepts (RAID, LVM, popular filesystems, distributed storage)
Strong Linux knowledge
Experience with distributed storage systems (e.g., Ceph)
Customer support experience and strong problem-solving abilities
Database administration (MySQL, ClickHouse, Redis)
Prior experience at a trading or fintech firm, or a strong interest in learning fintech
Virtualization and compute workloads (Proxmox, Docker, Kubernetes, HTCondor)
Cloud engineering basics (AWS, GCP — compute, storage)
Systems and network tuning
Ability to travel to data centers in Portland, New Jersey, or Boston on short notice (within one week)
Monitoring and alerting (Prometheus, Grafana, Alertmanager, Loki)