Data Platform Operations Engineer – Performance
IMC TradingAbout the Role
This role supports the Performance Team's data platform at IMC, focusing on the reliability, correctness, and performance of data systems that directly support performance analysis and decision-making. The position is production-facing and works closely with the Performance team and stakeholders to ensure data workflows are robust, observable, and efficient.
- Own the operational health of the Performance Team's data platform
- Monitor and maintain ETLs and data pipelines for correctness, timeliness, and stability
- Design and maintain data quality checks, reports, and alerting specific to performance data
- Investigate and resolve data issues and pipeline failures, driving problems to root cause
- Build and maintain operational tooling, automation, and runbooks
- Continuously tune data pipelines and workloads to improve performance and resource efficiency
Requirements
- 3+ years of experience in software engineering or data engineering with an operational or production focus
- A Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or a related field is strongly preferred
- Experience supporting production ETL or data processing systems
- Familiarity with Git-based development workflows and CI/CD systems (GitLab preferred)
- Strong analytical skills and attention to detail
- Comfortable taking ownership in a performance- and reliability-critical environment
- Experience working with performance-critical or high-throughput systems
- Exposure to workload scheduling, resource management, or cluster-based compute
What You'll Get
- $185k–$225k base salary
- Discretionary bonus
- Paid leave
- Insurance