Data Engineer
Teza Technologies, Austin +1
About the job
About the role
Teza's Data Platform team owns the data the firm trades on: every backtest, every live strategy, every portfolio decision starts with data we ingested, cleaned, stored, and served.
The scale, in plain numbers
- 1 PB of raw historical vendor data, growing by ~150 GB every day
- 120 TB of processed, query-ready data in historical storage
- Thousands of scheduled jobs: run by cron today, actively migrating to Apache Airflow
- Alternative data delivered directly into the real-time feeds of live trading strategies
This is a hands-on position on a small team of data engineers with growth potential. The firm is looking for outstanding technical skills, strong attention to detail, and a desire to architect and build data platforms.
Location
Austin, TX / Yerevan, Armenia (in-office requirement)
Key Responsibilities
- Work directly with Portfolio Managers and Quantitative Developers: turn their requirements into datasets and pipelines, and be the person who knows every nuance of the data they trade on.