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Data Platform Operations Engineer – Performance

Chicago, United States
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)

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