Equities Data Engineer

Key Responsibilities

• Partner with traders, researchers, and analysts to deliver well-structured data that powers trading strategies, predictive models, and AI/ML applications.
• Build, automate, and maintain resilient pipelines for cleaning, validating, and transforming batch and streaming data that feed into medallion architectures.
• Develop observability, monitoring, and alerting tools to provide complete visibility into pipeline reliability and performance.
• Optimize tiered data storage and elastic processing across on-prem, cloud, and hybrid environments to ensure scalable and cost-effective solutions.
• Enforce data governance, controls, and security standards to preserve confidentiality and operational integrity.
• Implement data quality frameworks (validation, reconciliation, anomaly detection) to detect gaps, staleness, and corporate action/market data inconsistencies.
• Maintain point-in-time correctness across datasets used for research and live trading; ensure reproducibility of signals and backtests.
• Collaborate with platform/infrastructure teams to productionize pipelines, improve runtime efficiency, and meet latency and availability requirements.

Qualifications

• Over five years of demonstrated experience designing ingestion pipelines.
• Familiarity with equities, equity indices, futures, or delta one trading data preferred.
• Experience processing real-time and batch financial market data.
• Proven ability to work in an agile, fast-paced environment and handle trading environment demands.
• Strong understanding of financial point-in-time and time-series data and analysis.
• Proven expertise in developing data quality control processes to detect gaps or inaccuracies.
• Experience with monitoring, observability, and alerting systems for data pipelines.
• C competent in both on-premise Linux systems and cloud platforms.
• Proficient in automated testing, CI/CD practices, and MLOps.
• Well-versed in compressed and optimized file formats such as Parquet and Iceberg.

Pay

The annual base salary range for this position is $175,000 to $200,000 depending on the candidate’s experience, qualifications, and relevant skill set. The position is also eligible for an annual discretionary bonus.

Benefits

DRW offers a comprehensive suite of employee benefits including group medical, pharmacy, dental and vision insurance, 401k (with discretionary employer match), short and long-term disability, life and AD&D insurance, health savings accounts, and flexible spending accounts.