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# Systems Engineer

- **Company:** Databento, Inc.
- **Location:** Boston, MA, United States (Remote available)
- **Experience:** Experienced
- **Contract:** Internship / Graduate position
- **Skills:** Proxmox, Amazon Web Services, Systems Engineering, Cloud Engineering, System Configuration, Data Centers, Linux, DevOps, RAID, File Systems, Distributed Data Store, OSI Models, Python (Programming Language), Logical Volume Manager, MySQL, Network Configuration and Change Management, Networking Basics, Network Protocols, Redis, Ansible, Prometheus, Shell Script, Virtualization Technology, Ceph (Software), Grafana, Kubernetes, Information Technology, Bare Metal, Routing & Switching, Vertica, Data Delivery, Puppet, Terraform, Docker
- **Published:** September 24, 2026
- **Apply:** https://www.juju.com/job/16_a05650115

## About the Role

* 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).

## Description

* 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.


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