Data License is our client’s industry-leading product that offers enterprise-level programmatic interfaces to reference and market data.

Our systems deliver billions of data points every day on all types of financial instruments to the world’s leading investment banks, brokers, asset managers, custodians and fund administrators. Our customers depend on our services to provide best-of-breed performance & reliability.

As a Systems Reliability Engineer in Data License, your mission will be to ensure our products can meet & exceed our customers’ high performance and reliability requirements, both now and in the future. In order to achieve this mission, you will have a broad scope of responsibilities, including:

  • Manage availability and scalability of the Data License system by instilling engineering reliability into our development life cycle, with a focus on fault tolerant approaches
  • Respond to and resolve unexpected and potential service problems, and write software to prevent problem recurrence
  • Create tools for monitoring system health
  • Drive capacity planning, performance analysis, instrumentation, and other non-functional systems requirements
  • Review and influence ongoing design, architecture, standards, and methods for improving our services
  • Manage system releases, write production software acceptance tests, and coordinate with product and data/technical support teams
  • Qualifications:
  • Significant experience with Python, Perl or other scripting languages
  • Extensive experience with Linux/Unix
  • Excellent communications skills with technical and non-technical audiences
  • Ability to handle on-call duty as well as out-of-band requests

Other Desired Expertise:

  • Prior experience as a systems performance or site/systems reliability engineer
  • C++ and/or Java development
  • Experience with Jenkins or other continuous integration tools
  • Experience with Robot Framework or other test automation frameworks
  • Experience working in a high-volume or critical production service environment
  • Expertise analyzing and troubleshooting large-scale distributed systems

Join our Client’s Team:

You will be working for the foremost provider of financial data, news and analysis in the world. Our client is the most trusted source of information for businesses and professionals. The company combines innovative technology with unmatched analytic, data, news, display and distribution capabilities, to deliver critical information via their proprietary service and multimedia platforms. Their media services cover the world with more than 2,200 news and multimedia professionals at 146 bureaus in 72 countries.

The culture is fast-paced, high energy and entrepreneurial. They have an open office environment that encourages interaction, communication, collaboration and teamwork. Their 24-hour food courts, giant tropical fish tanks and world-class art installations provide additional flourishes to a workplace that is as dynamic and exciting as the financial markets themselves.

Their technologists are among the best and the brightest, and come from many different industries, financial experience is not a requirement. Their technology environment primarily consists of C/C++ and UNIX/Linux.

Desired Skills and Experience

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