Equities Data Engineer

About this role

DRW's MASS trading team seeks an experienced Equities Data Engineer to build and maintain resilient data pipelines that support systematic trading strategies. You'll transform financial datasets for traders and researchers while ensuring data quality, governance, and point-in-time correctness across on-premise and cloud environments.

What you'll do

• Design and automate batch and streaming data pipelines with validation and transformation logic for medallion architectures
• Develop monitoring, observability, and alerting systems to track pipeline reliability and performance
• Implement data quality frameworks including validation, reconciliation, and anomaly detection for market data
• Maintain point-in-time correctness and ensure reproducibility of research signals and backtests
• Optimize data storage and processing across hybrid on-prem and cloud infrastructure for scalability and cost-efficiency
• Enforce data governance, security standards, and collaborate with platform teams to productionize pipelines

What they're looking for

• Data pipeline design and ingestion (5+ years)
• Batch and real-time financial data processing
• Point-in-time and time-series data analysis
• Data quality control and monitoring systems
• Linux systems and cloud platforms (on-premise and hybrid)
• Automated testing, CI/CD, and MLOps practices
• Parquet, Iceberg, and optimized file formats
• Equities, futures, or delta-one trading domain knowledge

Benefits

• Annual base salary $175,000–$200,000 plus discretionary bonus
• Medical, pharmacy, dental, and vision insurance
• 401(k) with discretionary employer match
• Short and long-term disability, life and AD&D insurance
• Health savings accounts and flexible spending accounts
• Fast-paced, collaborative trading environment at established proprietary firm