IMC
Data Engineer
$175K–$225K
Chicago, United States · Full-time · Posted Jun 10, 2025
- Experience
- 5+ years in data engineering; 3+ years with Kafka streaming applications and/or clusters; 2+ years with big-data backends.
About the job
Builds and operates big-data infrastructure and processing pipelines for IMC’s financial markets technology, ensuring data integrity and availability.
What you'll do
- Architect, develop, and deploy the big-data environment and data processing pipelines.
- Collaborate with development teams on data modeling, ingestion, and capacity planning; monitor pipelines.
- Support users and developers on data questions, integrity, and availability as a Big Data SME.
What they ask for
- 5+ years in a mature data engineering environment.
- 3+ years building Kafka streaming applications and/or maintaining Kafka clusters.
- 2+ years building applications or pipelines with big-data backends.
- Strong Java, Python, and SQL skills; experience with Apache Spark, Apache Flink, or similar tools.
Nice to have
- Experience with common data-science toolkits, especially Python-based.
- Hands-on Kubernetes and Docker experience; monitoring tools such as Prometheus/Grafana, Alert Manager, Alerta, and OpsGenie.
Pay
$175,000 — $225,000 USD (base salary)
Tools
Kafka, Hadoop, Dremio, Java, Python, Spark, Flink, SQL
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