Schonfeld
Senior Quantitative Data Engineer
$200K–$220K
New York, New York, United States · Senior · Full-time · Posted Jan 20, 2026
- Experience
- 7+ years building production data platforms.
About the job
Architects and operates high-throughput data platforms and pipelines for market data, quantitative research, systematic trading, AI, and risk analytics.
What you'll do
- Build and operate reliable batch and streaming data platforms, pipelines, and Lakehouse tables.
- Deliver curated datasets through versioned APIs and optimize workflows with observability and data-quality checks.
- Champion Infrastructure-as-Code and CI/CD practices, mentor engineers, and improve platform resilience and performance.
What they ask for
- 7+ years building production data platforms with Python and SQL.
- Expertise in big-data architecture, including partitioning, sharding, and columnar formats; hands-on with SingleStore/MemSQL, Spark/Flink/EMR, and Kafka/Kinesis.
- AWS skills and Terraform or CloudFormation Infrastructure-as-Code mastery.
- Experience delivering data services for AI/ML workloads and feature pipelines, building feature stores or RAG pipelines, and tuning databases for sub-second queries.
Nice to have
- Market-data domain expertise; mastery of Iceberg, Delta Lake, or Hudi on S3.
- Performance-profiling skills, open-source data-tooling contributions, or technical talks.
Pay
$200,000 and $220,000 USD base salary
Tools
Python, SQL, SingleStore/MemSQL, Spark, Flink, EMR, Kafka, Kinesis
AI focus
Build data services and feature pipelines for AI/ML workloads, including AI/ML feature stores or RAG pipelines, and expose curated datasets for AI agents.
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