Network Engineer (Trading Infrastructure)

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📅 Posted 2026-07-01 · via Himalayas
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We’re looking for a Network Engineer to join our Trading Infrastructure team. You will work on end-to-end network tasks: from new site and provider connectivity to validation, troubleshooting, and performance bottleneck analysis. The role is focused on low-latency and performance-sensitive environments and involves close collaboration with vendors, carriers, systems and hardware engineers.

What You’ll be doing

- Design, build, and operate network connectivity for trading infrastructure across colocation sites and regions

- Deliver end-to-end network setups: cross-connects, routing, validation testing, and go-live readiness

- Investigate and resolve complex network issues affecting latency, jitter, packet loss, or reliability

- Identify and address bottlenecks across the stack together with systems and hardware engineers

- Support timing-sensitive networking (PTP/NTP): bring-up, validation, monitoring, and troubleshooting

- Work on connectivity to cloud providers

- Improve repeatability through automation, templates, and tooling

- Contribute to operational readiness: runbooks, checklists, incident reviews (RCA), inventory and documentation

- Participate in scheduled on-call rotations to support network operations and incident response

What we look for in you:

- Hands-on experience operating and troubleshooting production networks, Linux and NGFW

- Solid understanding of routing and switching fundamentals (BGP, OSPF, VLANs, L2/L3 design)

- Good understanding of how networks impact system and application performance

- Ability to work end-to-end and collaborate across domains (systems, hardware, vendors)

- Automation mindset; scripting experience (Python/Bash) is a plus

- Passion for technology and continuous learning

Nice-to-Have:

- Experience in low-latency or performance-sensitive environments (trading, exchanges, market data)

- Colocation and provider connectivity experience (cross-connects, optics, acceptance testing)

- Experience with cloud connectivity (Direct Connect, ExpressRoute, Cloud Interconnect, etc.)

- PTP/NTP experience and understanding of timing-related failure modes

- CCNP-level (CCNP SP / CCNP DC / CCNP Ent knowledge or equivalent hands-on experience

Why should you join our team?

- Exciting challenges with ample opportunities for personal and professional growth

- A welcoming international team of highly qualified professionals

- Cutting-edge hardware and technology

- Work remotely from anywhere in the world

- Access any of our global offices anytime

- Flexible schedule

- 40 paid days off

- Competitive salary

Originally posted on Himalayas

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