Senior Network Engineer
Maven · Chicago, IL
📍 Chicagovia greenhousePosted 2026-05-27
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Maven is a market-leading proprietary trading firm deploying its own capital across discretionary, systematic, and market-making strategies. Backed by deep expertise in trading, technology, and research, we are relentlessly focused on improving liquidity across global listed derivatives. Through advanced execution and pricing technologies, we improve how financial markets operate.
The Maven Infrastructure team is a set of broad-minded technologists with diverse backgrounds, who focus on continuously improving the end-to-end performance, resiliency, scalability, visibility, and supportability of Maven's computing systems.
As a Network Engineer within our Infrastructure team, you will build a deep understanding of the data flows of Maven's trading systems, building network infrastructure and working collaboratively to optimize the performance of those systems. Your primary focus will be to work with developers, traders, and other infrastructure engineers to optimize our US network and datacenter infrastructure, but you’ll work closely with our global team of engineers to ensure we have a strong global network.
What you will be doing:
Design, configure, and support our global network infrastructure, collaborating across teams to optimize for low latency trading applications.
Build, support, and troubleshoot a hybrid wireless and wired high performance network environment
Take an automated, data driven approach to diagnosing and solving complex network infrastructure issues such as micro-bursting, jitter and queuing.
Proactively identify enhancements to existing configurations, technologies and procedures to improve performance
Own and project manage global network initiatives from requirements gathering, design review, implementation, deployment and documentation
Contribute to the documentation of network processes, systems, and configurations
Collaborate with systems teams to build and manage manage datacenter infrastructure
Maintain network security infrastructure to ensure perimeter protection and that internal environments remain appropriately separated
What we’re looking for:
Previous experience working on complex, high performance networks at a global scale
Demonstrable experience implementing complex projects from initiation through production handover
Experience with point to point low latency wireless networks and knowledge of RF principles
Passionate about troubleshooting and getting to the root cause of incidents
Be experienced with net-ops tools for configuration management, and network monitoring and analysis
Experience with Cisco, Arista, and/or Juniper hardware and the associated network operating systems
Experience working with high performance networking fabrics or matrix switches
Experience with optical tap and packet capture infrastructure
Deep knowledge of multicast networking and configuration
Strong working knowledge of Linux
Scripting skills in python to automate tasks and perform analysis
CCIE level knowledge and experience
Strong written and verbal communication skills; experience collaborating in global teams
What we offer:
Amazing opportunity to be a key member of a highly ambitious trading firm.
A decentralised global engineering environment
Great friendly, informal and highly rewarding culture
Fast growing global firm with plenty of opportunity where you will have significant impact
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