Data Platform Engineer

Posted by Phaxis LLC

New York, NY

Permanent

Our client, a mid-sized Hedge Fund, is growing their Data Platform team and hiring a Data Platform Engineer to assist in building and maintaining the core database technologies and automation frameworks that power the firms strategies. You will design resilient, secure, and ultra low latency systems. You will also play a key role in shaping the firm's next-generation data platform.

Skills:

3+ years of professional experience within the financial sector (working in equity, credit or derivatives trading environments)
Engineering experience in enterprise database technologies, with strong SQL skills
Development experience across multiple languages (such as PowerShell and Python) for solving complex problems and building automation
Experience with Infrastructure as Code (IaC)
Database performance tuning and optimization experience
Database design and modelling fundamentals
Version control and CI/CD experience
Experience with open-source monitoring tools such as Prometheus or Grafana for performance and health checks
Experience with Apache Iceberg on object storage
Exposure to multiple database platforms such as PostgreSQL, Snowflake, Redshift, MongoDB, etc.
Exposure to Kafka
Exposure to Kubernetes