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Schonfeld · 5 hours ago

Senior Data Engineer

positionNew York, NY
timeFull-time
remoteOnsite
senioritySenior Level
money$150K/yr - $190K/yr
date7+ years exp

Schonfeld is a global multi-manager hedge fund that strives to deliver industry-leading risk-adjusted returns for our investors. In this role, you will architect and operate data platforms that support research, trading, and analytics, while mentoring junior engineers and ensuring high performance and reliability in data workflows.

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Responsibilities

Architect and operate the platform – 24x7 reliability, IaC-driven deployments, tight cost controls
Build and evolve batch and streaming pipelines that ingest billions of market-data events each day
Architect high-performance, cost-efficient Lakehouse tables
Expose curated datasets via robust, versioned APIs consumed by quants and AI agents
Optimize workflows to meet aggressive SLAs, embedding observability and automated data quality checks end-to-end
Champion Infrastructure-as-Code with Git-driven CI/CD for every data asset
Mentor junior engineers and enforce best-in-class coding standards
Continuously refine processes to keep our data ecosystem resilient and lightning-fast

Qualification

PythonSQLAWSInfrastructure-as-CodeBig-data architectureSingleStore/MemSQLSpark/Flink/EMRAPI designPerformance tuningOpen-source contributionsCollaborationMentoring

Required

7+ years building production data platforms with Python and SQL
Deep expertise in big-data architecture: partitioning, sharding, columnar formats
Hands-on with SingleStore/MemSQL, Spark/Flink/EMR and event buses (Kafka/Kinesis)
Proven AWS skills plus Terraform / CloudFormation infrastructure-as-code mastery
Experience delivering data services for AI/ML workloads and feature pipelines
Performance-tuning Postgres, SingleStore/MemSQL, or KDB for sub-second queries
Proficient in API design, versioning, and OpenAPI/Swagger documentation
Comfortable collaborating directly with traders, quants, and data scientists

Preferred

Market-data domain expertise (tick, options, macro)
Mastery of Iceberg, Delta Lake, or Hudi on S3
Hands-on work with real-time analytics engines such as SingleStore/MemSQL
Experience building AI/ML feature stores or RAG pipelines
Skill with performance profiling tools
Contributions to open-source data tooling or technical talks

Benefits

Performance bonus
Competitive benefits package

Company

Schonfeld

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Founded in 1988, Schonfeld is a multi-strategy, multi-manager hedge fund with an investing footprint that spans five continents.
dateFounded in 1988
location
New York, New York, USA
people-size501-1000 employees
web-link
http://www.schonfeld.com/

H1B Sponsorship

Schonfeld has a track record of offering H1B sponsorships. Please note that this does not guarantee sponsorship for this specific role. Below presents additional info for your reference. (Data Powered by US Department of Labor)
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2025 (26)
2024 (29)
2023 (20)
2022 (33)
2021 (16)
2020 (13)

Funding

Current Stage
Late Stage

Leadership Team

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Ryan Tolkin
Chief Executive Officer and Chief Investment Officer
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Michael Kuchmek
Global Head of Equity Capital Markets, Schonfeld
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