Systems Engineer - Databento (Fully Remote)
Unusual Ventures
What you'll be doing:
- Deploying and maintaining a high-availability environment consisting of servers distributed across multiple data centers worldwide.
- Maintaining bare metal and cloud-based Linux clusters with petabytes of storage and 10/40/100G networking.
- Managing and troubleshooting Linux systems configurations.
- Optimizing performance of servers and networks.
- Coordinating with vendors and remote hands.
Here are the required competencies for the role:
- Bachelor's degree and/or at least 4 years experience working with Linux servers.
- Shell scripting in a Linux environment.
- Network administration (OSI layers 2-4, IP routing with OSPF and BGP, switching, multicast, load balancing, bonding, packet processing, SSL/IPsec VPNs).
- Configuration and provisioning tools (Saltstack, Puppet, Ansible, Foreman, Terraform).
- Experience in racking and cabling bare metal servers.
- Can accommodate frequent travel to data centers in MA and NJ.
Our preferred candidate is also qualified in some of the following areas:
- Enterprise storage and file systems (NFS, ZFS, Ceph, GlusterFS, Weka).
- HA database administration (MySQL, Clickhouse).
- Containerized application deployment (k8s, Docker).
- Hybrid cloud deployments with auto-scaling (AWS).
- Performance analysis and monitoring tools (tcpdump, iostat, strace, Prometheus).
- High-availability server and network architectures (redundancy, failover, replication, recovery).
- Source automation, build and continuous integration tools (GitLab CI).
- Low latency equipment and network adapters (Xilinx, Arista, Solarflare).
- Line rate capture of raw multicast feeds from exchanges.
- Experience coordinating with data centers and network providers (Equinix, Telia, NTT, Level 3).
- Prior work experience at a buy-side trading firm.
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