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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. We accommodate 100% remote work, with teammates living around the globe and paid in their local currency. 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 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 or 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!
Here's how to pick the right one and stand out in your application.
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That number is real. WorkMundi's database shows 144,883 open engineer roles across the world. India has the most with 31,687 jobs, followed by the United States with 30,084. If you just finished reading one job ad and felt paralyzed by choice, you're not alone—but this scale is actually an advantage. It means you can afford to be selective.
Start by geography and language. The majority of engineer ads—117,837 of them—have the job posting text written in English. Use that as one filter, but remember: the ad text language tells you nothing about whether the role actually requires you to speak English day-to-day. Read the job description carefully. Then check which countries have the volume you're targeting. Singapore, Poland, and Australia round out the top five after India and the US.
Next, learn who's hiring. Accenture has posted 2,801 engineer roles. andurilindustries, speechify, and jobgether are also actively recruiting. If you're applying to one of these names, research their hiring patterns and interview style before you apply. That homework pays off.
When you interview, expect the question every engineer hears: 'Tell me about a time you had to debug a problem that wasn't in your job description.' Have a specific story ready—not a general one. Name the tools, the deadline pressure, and what you learned. Hiring managers listen for whether you see problem-solving as part of the role itself, not a favour.