Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Nascent is a company focused on open financial markets, investment strategies, and product-grade engineering. The Network Engineer will own the network infrastructure connecting trading systems to exchanges, colocations, and internal platforms, designing low-latency topologies and managing connectivity, routing, firewalls, time synchronization, automation, 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
- This position must be geographically located within +/- 3 hours EST
- 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
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, open vacation policy, flexible hours.
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