Market Data Support Engineer

A Career with Point72’s Infrastructure Team

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.

What you’ll do

As a Market Data Support Engineer, you will work on an embedded, hyper-focused team specializing Market Data engineering and support, capturing global environments. Specifically, you will:

• Support low latency co-location environments for Market Data and front office systems running RHEL8/9
• Manage, communicate, and implement changes (Linux and Market Data), upgrades, new co-location builds and migrations across low latency environments
• Engage with vendors and exchanges on protocol upgrades (EDC) and operation issues
• Liaise with Market Data capture vendors on issues, upgrades, and performance enhancements.
• Ability to resolve production issues in a timely, effective, and professional manner under pressure
• Perform hands-on analysis of the production systems, fault resolution, growth issues, and root cause analysis for critical issues

What’s required

• Experience with real-time native direct exchange feeds (PITCH, ITCH etc.)
• Hands on troubleshooting experience of third-party feed handlers running within a low latency co-location environment
• Excellent knowledge of tuning Linux for low latency, high-throughput and kernel bypass (e.g. Exanic, Solarflare, Mellanox)
• Experience building co-locations from scratch with in-depth Linux administration experience
• Experience with automation tools (Ansible, Terraform etc.)
• Experience with a scripting language (Bash, Python)
• Experience with monitoring and instrumentation of infrastructure/applications (Prometheus/Grafana)
• Independent problem solver and self-starter, skilled in troubleshooting, decision-making, and analytics
• Commitment to the highest ethical standards.

About Point72

Point72 is a leading global alternative investment firm led by Steven A. Cohen. Building on more than 30 years of investing experience, Point72 seeks to deliver superior returns for its investors through fundamental and systematic investing strategies across asset classes and geographies. We aim to attract and retain the industry’s brightest talent by cultivating an investor-led culture and committing to our people’s long-term growth. For more information, visit https://point72.com/.