Low-Latency Market Data Engineer

A Career with Point72’s Infrastructure Group

As Point72 reimagines the future of investing, our Technology group is constantly improving our company’s IT infrastructure, positioning us at the forefront of a rapidly evolving technology landscape. We’re a team of experts experimenting, discovering new ways to harness the power of open-source solutions, and embracing enterprise agile methodology. We encourage professional development to ensure you bring innovative ideas to our products while satisfying your own intellectual curiosity.

Our Technology Infrastructure team engineers and operates the foundational technology platforms that power all Point72’s applications and businesses. Our disciplines span a broad array of technologies from datacenter infrastructure to large scale cloud services, with the shared goal of providing the most reliable, performant, modern technology platforms to improve time-to-market for our business. We also deliver end-user technology solutions to support the evolving collaboration, and productivity needs of our global teams. Our team focuses on innovation and challenging the current state of our infrastructure technology in a fast-paced, dynamic, and collaborative working environment.

We are looking for a detail-oriented and dedicated Low-Latency Market Data Engineer with at least 10 years of experience in the design, implementation, and support of Linux/Unix operating systems.

What you’ll do:

In this role, you will work as part of a team responsible for the design, engineering, implementation, and 3rd level support of the Network, Linux and Market Data systems in our trading colocations. Specifically, you will:

• Manage, communicate, and implement infrastructure changes, upgrades, and migrations on co-located network devices and Linux servers

• Support, monitor, and maintain co-location market data infrastructure running on RHEL

• Engage with vendors and exchanges on protocol upgrades (EDC) and operational issues

• Analyze packet captures (gaps, data quality checks)

• Liaise with Market Data capture vendor on issues, upgrades, and performance enhancements