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# Network Engineer at IMC

- **Company:** IMC
- **Location:** Mumbai, India
- **Posted:** 2026-10-21
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-10-30
- **Apply:** https://job-boards.eu.greenhouse.io/imc/jobs/5012013101

## Job description

Join our forward-thinking team as a Network Engineer, where you will play a key role in designing, implementing, and supporting high-performance, low-latency network infrastructure. At IMC, the Trading Infrastructure team is responsible for the WAN, LANs, and all low-latency connectivity to trading venues. You will work closely with Systems Engineers, internal teams, and external partners to deliver best-in-class solutions that support our trading business and help evolve our infrastructure to meet the demands of a dynamic industry.

Your Core Responsibilities:

- Design, implement and support the networking infrastructure. Key areas include Low-latency networking, Unicast and Multicast routing, OSPF, BGP, PIM SM, as well as things like QoS, STP, NAT, protocol tuning, etc.
- Monitor, guard and analyze the proper functioning of our network infrastructure. Take adaptive, retentive and corrective measures and perform structural maintenance.
- Proactively improve our infrastructure by contributing scripts and code to our automation efforts (e.g. Bash, Python).
- Accurately create and maintain documentation detailing the implemented network components, as well as relevant procedures and other documentation.
- Responsibility for our IT security related platforms. Key areas include Palo Alto firewalls, VPNs, Security policies, etc.
- Work flexible hours. We are proud of the uptime of the trading environment, so every now and then you will be working outside of regular business hours to apply critical changes. This could be from your desk, your couch at home or also inside of one of our datacenters abroad.
- Liaise with external vendors, exchanges and providers to explore new technology solutions, implement new services or troubleshoot problems.

Your Skills and Experience:

- 5+ years of experience as a Network Engineer, with a passion for all aspects of networking
- Proven ability to design, implement, and support high-performance networks
- Strong appetite for accuracy and willingness to go beyond standard textbook networking concepts
- Collaborative mindset with experience working closely across cross-functional teams
- Ability to motivate and encourage peers while maintaining a high technical standard
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills, including the ability to explain technical topics to both technical and non-technical stakeholders

## 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.

## About IMC

## Company Overview
- **One-liner**: IMC is a global trading firm that uses cutting-edge technology, quantitative research, and advanced algorithms to provide liquidity across major asset classes and trading venues worldwide.
- **Entity Type**: Private (bootstrapped)
- **Headquarters**: Amsterdam, Netherlands (global headquarters); major offices in Chicago, Sydney, Mumbai, and other cities.
- **Founded**: 1989
- **Founders**: Two traders (names not publicly disclosed) who met on the floor of the Amsterdam Equity Options Exchange.

## Core Business
- **Primary industry/industries**: Financial Services, Proprietary Trading, Market Making, Financial Technology
- **Target customers**: Institutional clients, exchanges, ETF issuers, buy-side firms, and other market participants. **B2B** focus.
- **Mission or purpose statement**: To be the world’s leading trading firm, supporting fair and transparent markets by providing significant liquidity and competitive pricing. [imc.com](https://www.imc.com/eu/who-we-are)

## Products & Services
- **ETF Market Making**: Acts as a Lead Market Maker (LMM) in more than 150 US exchange-traded funds (ETFs).
- **Options Wholesaling**: A top-3 liquidity provider by volume traded in listed options globally, with connectivity to all OCC venues.
- **Institutional Sales**: Provides off-screen trading for buy-side firms.
- **Crypto Solutions**: Offers global coverage of crypto products including spot, perps, futures, and options, both on- and off-chain.
- **Multi-Asset Class Trading**: Develops innovative technologies and algorithms to trade in all major asset classes on more than 120 venues globally.

## Market Standing
- **Valuation/Market Cap**: Not publicly available (private company).
- **Key Metric**: Over 2,070 employees across 10 global offices as of 2025/2026. [imc.com](https://www.imc.com/eu/who-we-are)
- **Notable Investors/Partners**: Privately held; no external investors disclosed. Key partners include major global exchanges and clearing houses (e.g., OCC).
- **Growth Signals**:
    - Employee count grew from +1,900 to +2,070 in recent years.
    - Operates 9,000+ servers across 9 countries and processes petabytes of data daily.
    - Expanding into crypto and new asset classes.
    - Committed to being Net Zero by 2040.

## Competitive Advantages
- **Technology & Infrastructure**: A world-class technology backbone with 9,000+ servers, petabytes of data processing, and early adoption of AI/ML.
- **Longevity & Experience**: 36+ years of trading history and deep expertise across multiple asset classes.
- **Global Scale**: 24/7 liquidity provision across 120+ trading venues in the US, Europe, Asia-Pacific, and India.
- **Talent Density**: A flat, non-hierarchical culture that attracts top quant researchers, engineers, and traders from 70+ nationalities.
- **Culture of Ownership**: Employees are given significant responsibility early on, with a focus on collaboration and cross-functional teamwork.

## Strategic Focus
- **Quantitative Research & Tech**: Continually investing in quant research, AI, machine learning, and large-scale computing to generate alpha.
- **Global Expansion**: Expanding across new markets and asset classes, including crypto.
- **Sustainability**: Committed to being Net Zero by 2040 and making a positive impact through the IMC Foundations, focusing on education.
- **Talent Development**: Investing heavily in graduate and intern training programs (Graduate Traineeship, Launchpad) to build the next generation of talent.

## Why Work Here
- **Culture & Values**: High-performance, collaborative, and non-hierarchical. 87% of employees say "IMC is a great place to work" (+4% vs global top-10%). [imc.com](https://www.imc.com/us/who-we-are/our-culture-values)
- **Work Environment**: Office-based (no remote policy indicated). Offers free catered breakfast and lunch, snacks, drinks, and Friday socials. Regular team events including an annual weekend trip.
- **Compensation & Benefits**: Competitive compensation with subsidized gym memberships, ergonomic desks, and health/well-being programs.
- **Learning & Development**: Extensive internal and external training programs. Graduates undergo a multi-week Graduate Traineeship (Trading School, Development School, FPGA School).
- **Diversity**: Employees represent 70+ nationalities, with a strong commitment to D&I.
- **Giving Back**: A share of profits is donated to non-profits, with a focus on education. Employees get volunteer time, donation matching, and grants.

## Sources
1. [IMC Homepage](https://www.imc.com/us/)
2. [IMC Careers Page](https://www.imc.com/us/careers)
3. [IMC Who We Are](https://www.imc.com/eu/who-we-are)
4. [IMC Culture & Values](https://www.imc.com/us/who-we-are/our-culture-values)
5. [IMC Recruitment Process](https://www.imc.com/us/careers/recruitment-process)

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