Data Platform Operations Engineer – Performance
- Salary
- $185,000 - $225,000
- Level
- Mid
Not stated in the posting: work type, visa.
Open. First seen 2 October 2026.
About the role
We are looking for a data-focused engineer with a strong operational focus to support the Performance Team’s data platform at IMC. This role is responsible for the reliability, correctness, and performance of data systems that directly support performance analysis and decision-making.
The role is production-facing and works closely with the Performance team and aligned stakeholders to ensure data workflows are robust, observable, and efficient.
Your Core Responsibilities:
- Own the operational health of the Performance Team’s data platform
- Monitor and maintain ETLs and data pipelines for correctness, timeliness, and stability
- Design and maintain data quality checks, reports, and alerting specific to performance data
- Investigate and resolve data issues and pipeline failures, driving problems to root cause
- Own and troubleshoot GitLab CI/CD pipeline issues related to performance data workflows
- Monitor workloads and resource usage; identify and resolve imbalances and bottlenecks
- Build and maintain operational tooling, automation, and runbooks
- Continuously tune data pipelines and workloads to improve performance and resource efficiency
Your Skills & Experience:
- 3+ years of experience in software engineering or data engineering with an operational or production focus
- A Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science or a related field is strongly preferred
- Proficiency in Python, with hands-on experience using PySpark and Pandas
- Experience supporting production ETL or data processing systems
- Familiarity with Git-based development workflows and CI/CD systems (GitLab preferred)
- Strong analytical skills and attention to detail
- Comfortable taking ownership in a performance- and reliability-critical environment
- Experience working with performance-critical or high-throughput systems
- Exposure to workload scheduling, resource management, or cluster-based compute
The Base Salary range for the role is included below. Base salary is only one component of total compensation; all full-time, permanent positions are eligible for a discretionary bonus and benefits, including paid leave and insurance. Please visit Benefits - US | IMC Trading for more comprehensive information.
Salary Range
$185,000—$225,000 USD
IMC's standard text
About Us
IMC is a research-driven trading firm where quantitative modeling, machine learning, and engineering shape how modern markets are traded. A stabilizing force in markets since 1989, we provide liquidity across trading venues, delivering the best outcome in value and risk management to investors. Using our own technology and capital, we build proprietary systems and algorithms that operate across global markets.
Our researchers, traders, and engineers work as a collective, combining rapid experimentation, advanced infrastructure, and real-time feedback to turn insight into execution and execution into advantage.
What this role asks for
Particular to this role
Git · GitLab · Pandas
Rare in IMC's other 74 open postings.
Standard for data engineering roles
CI/CD · ETL · Spark
Common in data engineering postings at any company.
In most of IMC's ads
Machine Learning · Python
Named in most of its open postings, whatever the role.
77% of this description is written for the role. The rest is IMC's standard text, folded away below.
Read against IMC's other open postings on this site.
The team: Development (Group) HIRES STEADILY
This role is one of 37 open in Development (Group). 5 were posted in the last 30 days and the oldest in July: a team that hires all year rather than one being built.
WHAT THE TEAM WORKS WITH, ACROSS ITS POSTINGS
Machine Learning (37 of 37), Python (27 of 37), C++ (22 of 37), Java (17 of 37), Linux (10 of 37), Kubernetes (9 of 37), Docker (7 of 37)
OTHER ROLES ON THIS TEAM
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- Machine Learning Engineer Intern - Summer 2027 posted Oct 8
- Software Engineer, Early Career posted Sep 30
- Verification Engineer posted Sep 25
- Hardware Machine Learning PhD Research Internship posted Sep 23
- Software Engineer (Java) - Global Research Platform posted Sep 16
- Graduate Hardware Engineer posted Sep 14
- Performance Engineer posted Sep 10
- Quant Performance Engineer Intern - Summer 2027 posted Aug 27
- Quant Performance Engineer posted Aug 27
- Systems Engineer - AI Safety and Tooling posted Aug 26
- Software Engineer - Development Platform posted Aug 26
- Software Engineer – Application Platform posted Aug 14
- Software Engineer Intern 2027 posted Aug 12
- C++ Software Engineer, Early Careers posted Aug 5
- Graduate Software Engineer (2027) posted Jul 31
- C++ Software Engineer posted Jul 20
- Software Engineer - Risk Technology posted Jul 17
- Software Engineer Intern - Summer 2027 posted Jul 1
- Graduate Software Engineer posted Jul 1
- Graduate Hardware Engineer posted Jul 1
- Machine Learning Engineer posted Jun 26
- Hardware Engineer posted Jun 24
- Quantitative Developer - Python posted May 29
- Software Engineer Intern posted May 7
- Java Software Engineer posted May 4
- Java Software Engineer (Power/Gas) posted Apr 2
- C++ Software Engineer posted Mar 18
- C++ Software Engineer posted Jan 19
- Software Engineer – AI Powered Engineering posted Sep 26
- C++ Software Engineer posted Sep 12
- Graduate Software Engineer (2026) posted Aug 27
- Performance Engineer posted Jul 25
- Python Software Engineer posted Jul 9
- Machine Learning Engineer posted Apr 1
- Quant Developer DeFi - Digital Assets posted Jul 24
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