Lead Database Engineer at Qube Research & Technologies (Hong Kong, China)
Qube Research & Technologies· Hong Kong, China·
Job description
Qube Research & Technologies (QRT) is a global quantitative and systematic investment manager, operating in all liquid asset classes across the world. We are a technology and data driven group implementing a scientific approach to investing. Combining data, research, technology, and trading expertise has shaped our collaborative mindset, which enables us to solve the most complex challenges. QRT’s culture of innovation continuously drives our ambition to deliver high quality returns for our investors.
Your future role within QRT
This person will be a key member of the global DB team to help support, administrate, and secure databases for QRT. Exposure to many aspects of DB projects, including but not limited to Administration, Always-on/High Availability, Capacity-Planning, Data Warehouse, DB design, etc.
What you will do:
- Work closely with users from all parts of business to define and resolve information flow and content issues
- Enable and support the transformation of business requirements into database solutions
- Design and develop robust cutting edge systems to keep QRT business at the forefront of its field
Requirements
- Experience in database administration within a production environment for below DB product is preferred: clickhouse, snowflake,
- Through understanding of DB monitoring, analysis, disaster recovery, and performance tuning
- Familiarity with UNIX/LinuxExperience in one or more database programming languages (SQL, T-SQL, PL/SQL etc.) for design, maintain, administrate, secure, backup and recovery across production, back test, UAT and development environments
- Experience of managing security and permissionsKnowledge of industry best practices
- Good attention to detail, testing and documentation
- Organized with a proactive approach to work. Team player essential.
- Experience in scripting in Powershell/Shell script, python, ansible would be a plus
- Experience in cloud DB admin would be a plus
- Knowledge of industry best practices
- Organized with a proactive approach to work, team player; ability to work under pressure, with excellent time management skills
QRT is an equal opportunity employer. We welcome diversity as essential to our success. QRT empowers employees to work openly and respectfully to achieve collective success. In addition to professional achievement, we are offering initiatives and programs to enable employees achieve a healthy work-life balance.
Why work at Qube Research & Technologies
- Compensation & Career Growth: Highly competitive pay. Interns can earn around $12k per month. Over 40% of staff are in a deferred compensation plan with exposure to fund performance. Glassdoor rating of 4.1/5.0, with compensation (4.0) and career opportunities (4.1) as top highlights.
- Culture & Demographics: Young, high-performance culture (74% of staff aged 40 or under, 38% aged 30 or under). 90% of staff reported good team morale in an internal survey. Described as a "fertile ground for experimental research."
- Work Environment: Hybrid/office-based depending on role and location. Offices in London (HQ), Paris, Hong Kong, Singapore, New York, Chicago, Dubai, Mumbai, Geneva, and more. New London office in Victoria.
- Notable Perks: Deferred compensation plan with fund performance exposure. Interns can earn around $12k per month. Strong focus on work-life balance initiatives.
- Engineering Culture: Heavy emphasis on technology (Python, C++, C#, Snowflake, FPGA, low-latency systems, MLflow, Kubernetes). 22% of staff are in Research roles, 6% in Technical roles. Strong support for coding initiatives and academic projects in maths and science.