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 Tower Research PDT Partners SIG and other top quantitative firms. We offer health dental disability and life insurance benefits as well as 401(k) matching for full-time employees. 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. 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. 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). Ability to travel to data centers in Portland New Jersey or Boston on short notice (within one week). Notice about phishing scams Be cautious of phishing scams impersonating Databento that offer fake job interviews and request purchases. Official emails come only from @databento.com us.greenhouse-mail.io (our ATS). Any other domains (e.g. databento-careers.com databento.online) are fraudulent. Databento Inc. provides equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants without regard to race color religion sex national origin age disability sexual orientation gender identity or expression veteran status or genetics. In addition to federal law requirements we comply with applicable state and local laws governing nondiscrimination in every location where we operate. This policy applies to all terms and conditions of employment including recruiting hiring placement promotion termination layoff recall transfer leaves of absence compensation and training. Pursuant to applicable laws we consider qualified applicants with arrest or conviction records. If you need an accommodation please let us know. Our recruiting data suggests that underrepresented applicants often downplay their skills. Even if your experience doesn’t exactly match the qualifications listed we still want to hear from you. Please apply!