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IMC

Data Platform Operations Engineer – Performance

Chicago, United StatesFrom $225kfull-timemidAdded today

About this role

IMC seeks a Data Platform Operations Engineer to maintain and optimize the Performance Team's data infrastructure in Chicago. You'll ensure ETL pipelines and data workflows remain reliable, correct, and efficient while troubleshooting issues and driving continuous performance improvements.

What you'll do

  • Own operational health and reliability of the Performance Team's data platform
  • Monitor ETLs and data pipelines for correctness, timeliness, and stability
  • Design and maintain data quality checks, alerts, and monitoring dashboards
  • Investigate data issues and pipeline failures to root cause
  • Troubleshoot GitLab CI/CD pipeline issues related to performance data workflows
  • Optimize and tune data pipelines for performance and resource efficiency

What they're looking for

  • Python
  • PySpark
  • Pandas
  • ETL and data pipeline development
  • GitLab CI/CD systems
  • Production monitoring and observability
  • Root cause analysis
  • Data quality framework design

Benefits

  • Discretionary bonus eligible
  • Paid leave
  • Insurance coverage
  • Collaborative, high-performance culture
  • Global trading firm environment
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IMC

IMC builds trading technology and financial systems powered by software, machine learning, and hardware engineering. The company is hiring interns and graduate-level engineers and researchers across software, machine learning, and hardware disciplines to develop trading algorithms, research strategies, and collaborative technology solutions.

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Likely interview questions

  • Describe your experience troubleshooting production data pipeline failures—how do you approach root cause analysis?
  • Tell us about a time you optimized an ETL or data processing system for performance; what metrics did you target?