Low Latency Network Engineer

Hamilton Barnes 🌳

Title: Low Latency Network Engineer

Location: New York or Chicago (4x per week onsite)

Salary: Up to 250k base + bonus ($500K TOTAL COMP IS POSSIBLE)

Take a leading technical role in shaping the global networks behind a performance-critical financial technology business. You’ll influence architecture, deliver major infrastructure projects and help develop an experienced engineering team.

The role:

- Design resilient, high-performance networks across data centres and cloud environments.

- Own complex upgrades, from lab testing through deployment.

- Build Python tooling to automate changes and improve reliability.

- Resolve challenging routing and performance issues.

- Guide technical decisions and mentor engineers.

What you’ll bring:

- CCIE Level of Network Engineering (Certification preferred)

- Extensive experience supporting business-critical networks.

- Strong BGP, OSPF, multicast and MPLS knowledge.

- Hands-on Python automation and cloud networking experience.

- A practical understanding of latency, monitoring and network security.

- Confidence owning projects and explaining technical decisions.

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