[Hiring] Network Engineer @Nascent

Role Description

You'll own the network infrastructure that connects Nascent's trading systems to exchanges, colocations, and internal platforms — the physical and logical fabric that every microsecond of execution depends on. This is a hands-on build-and-operate role:

• Design low-latency network topologies
• Manage colocation cross-connects and exchange connectivity
• Maintain precision time synchronization
• Keep firewall and routing policy tight

You'll work alongside systems engineers, SREs, and quant infrastructure teams who treat deterministic performance as a first-class engineering discipline. This isn't a ticket-queue seat inside a large NOC. You'll be one of two network engineers with direct ownership over architecture decisions, vendor relationships, and the tooling you build to monitor and automate the stack — designing connectivity from scratch, not just maintaining what someone else built. The problems are real:

• Packet captures at the switch port
• PTP drift investigations
• Firewall policy reviews that directly affect trade flow

You'll have the autonomy to solve them end to end.

Qualifications

• 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.

Requirements

• 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.