Network Engineer

Summary

Nascent Markets is an open-financial-system company combining venture and market expertise with product-grade engineering. The Network Engineer will own and build the network infrastructure supporting trading systems, exchanges, colocation facilities, and internal platforms, with responsibilities spanning low-latency topology design, routing, time synchronization, firewalls, automation, monitoring, and incident response.

Responsibilities

• Own colocation connectivity: cross-connects, exchange feeds, and carrier relationships across production colo facilities
• Design and maintain low-latency L2/L3 network topologies for trading infrastructure
• Configure, troubleshoot, and optimize BGP and OSPF routing in production
• Maintain precision time synchronization (PTP / IEEE 1588) across trading and infrastructure systems
• Manage firewall policy (Cisco ASA, Palo Alto, or equivalent) — changes that directly affect production traffic paths
• Write Python tooling for network automation, configuration management, and operational monitoring
• Perform packet capture and protocol-level troubleshooting (tcpdump, Wireshark)
• Build and maintain runbooks, network diagrams, and infrastructure documentation
• Participate in the on-call rotation and own incidents end to end, from triage through post-mortem

Skills

• • You've worked in latency-sensitive, colocation, or trading environments — you understand why microseconds matter and how network decisions land on execution
• • You design infrastructure from scratch rather than only operating what someone else built
• • You script your way out of repetitive work; automation is instinct, not an afterthought
• • You own incidents end to end — you don't escalate and wait, you dig in until it's resolved
• • You're comfortable as one of two network engineers: small team, real ownership, nowhere to hide
• • You treat on-call as part of the craft, not an imposition
• • You translate network decisions into language systems engineers, SREs, and quant teams can act on
• • 3+ years hands-on with L2/L3 networking in latency-sensitive, colocation, or trading environments
• • Strong working knowledge of BGP and OSPF — configuration, troubleshooting, and design in production
• • Production experience with PTP (IEEE 1588) or comparable precision time synchronization
• • Proficiency in Python for network automation, configuration management, or operational tooling
• • Hands-on firewall configuration and management (Cisco ASA, Palo Alto, or equivalent)
• • Packet capture and protocol-level troubleshooting (tcpdump, Wireshark)
• • Nice to have: CCNP/CCIE with practical work behind it; IaC for network config (Ansible, Terraform); hybrid-cloud connectivity (AWS Direct Connect, Azure ExpressRoute); DPDK or kernel-bypass exposure

Qualifications

Must Haves

• • You've worked in latency-sensitive, colocation, or trading environments — you understand why microseconds matter and how network decisions land on execution
• • You design infrastructure from scratch rather than only operating what someone else built
• • You script your way out of repetitive work; automation is instinct, not an afterthought
• • You own incidents end to end — you don't escalate and wait, you dig in until it's resolved
• • You're comfortable as one of two network engineers: small team, real ownership, nowhere to hide
• • You treat on-call as part of the craft, not an imposition
• • You translate network decisions into language systems engineers, SREs, and quant teams can act on

Nice to Haves

• • 3+ years hands-on with L2/L3 networking in latency-sensitive, colocation, or trading environments
• • Strong working knowledge of BGP and OSPF — configuration, troubleshooting, and design in production
• • Production experience with PTP (IEEE 1588) or comparable precision time synchronization
• • Proficiency in Python for network automation, configuration management, or operational tooling
• • Hands-on firewall configuration and management (Cisco ASA, Palo Alto, or equivalent)
• • Packet capture and protocol-level troubleshooting (tcpdump, Wireshark)
• • Nice to have: CCNP/CCIE with practical work behind it; IaC for network config (Ansible, Terraform); hybrid-cloud connectivity (AWS Direct Connect, Azure ExpressRoute); DPDK or kernel-bypass exposure

Benefits

• The opportunity to learn, experiment and build in an entrepreneurial environment
• Remote-first, distributed team with frequent in-person sprints and retreats.
• Competitive total comp with strong bonus upside tied to performance.
• Hardware & home-office stipend, conference and learning budgets.
• Comprehensive health benefits (medical/dental/vision), life insurance.
• Open vacation policy as well as flexible work hours and location
• 16 weeks fully-paid parental leave + supported return to work.
• Retirement matching