Market Data System Engineer
Market Data Distribution Systems Engineer
Our partner company, a global financial services firm, is looking for a Systems Engineer to join its Market Data Site Reliability and Engineering team — responsible for highly available, ultra-low-latency platforms that distribute real-time and historical market data (equities, indices, options, fixed income, FX) at massive scale, with peak rates exceeding 10 million messages/second and daily volumes over 3 billion updates.
What you'll do
- Design and configure global market data distribution systems with optimal latency profiles
- Periodically review plant capacity and plan for market volatility
- Proactively identify opportunities to improve plant stability and security
- Work with global market data users to scope and integrate client requirements into the production plant
- Collaborate with clients and development teams on feed migrations and regulatory requirements
- Continuously seek productivity improvements in day-to-day integration work
- Partner with development to test and quality-assure new releases
- Perform regular hygiene activities (OS upgrades, security enhancements, software upgrades)
Requirements
What you'll bring
- Strong UNIX/Linux OS knowledge (resource monitoring, OS tuning)
- UNIX/Linux scripting proficiency (navigation, operational functions, shell scripts)
- Programming exposure to Python at minimum; Java/C++/Perl a plus
- Networking fundamentals (TCP/IP, UDP); multicast knowledge is an advantage
- Experience managing global distribution systems (configuration/capacity management, HA)
- Strong problem-solving skills, able to work with limited information under time pressure
- Excellent English communication skills for regular cross-region collaboration
Nice to have
- Agile methodology experience
- CI/CD experience
- Project management experience
- Database technology knowledge
- Experience using AI models/agents as productivity tools
If you enjoy working on mission-critical, ultra-low-latency data platforms at global scale, this could be a great next step.