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Databento · 1 month ago

Junior Systems Engineer

positionUnited States
timeFull-time
remoteRemote
seniorityEntry Level
date2+ years exp

Databento is a startup that builds modern APIs to get financial data, having raised $37.8M and grown revenues significantly in the past year. They are looking for a Junior Systems Engineer to manage the backbone of their platform, involving hands-on work with storage, networking, and deployments across data centers.

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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

Qualification

LinuxSystems configurationNetworking basicsPythonDistributed storageCloud engineeringDatabase administrationDevOps mindsetCustomer supportProblem-solving

Required

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

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)
Ability to travel to data centers in New Jersey or Boston on short notice (within one week)

Benefits

Health, dental, disability, and life insurance benefits
401(k) matching for full-time employees

Company

Databento

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Databento is a SaaS company that offers market data APIs for real-time and historical data.
dateFounded in 2019
location
Salt Lake City, Utah, USA
people-size11-50 employees
web-link
https://www.databento.com/

Funding

Current Stage
Early Stage
Total Funding
$41.8M
Key Investors
Unusual VenturesMassChallengeIndicator Ventures
2024-10-01Series A
2024-03-05Series A· $10M
2021-11-12Series A· $24.25M

Leadership Team

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Christina Qi
Chief Executive Officer
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