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title: 'Site Reliability Engineer - Data Platform at IMC'
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# Site Reliability Engineer - Data Platform at IMC

- **Company:** IMC
- **Location:** Amsterdam, Netherlands
- **Posted:** 2026-09-15
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-09-18
- **Apply:** https://job-boards.eu.greenhouse.io/imc/jobs/4889019101

## Job description

IMC operates on the cutting-edge use of technology to create a competitive edge over the competition. We also grow quick and have plenty of complex technical challenges. We're looking for an experienced SRE with strong background in managing distributed data systems on both bare metal Linux and Kubernetes. We want someone who can help us standardize deployments, elevate observability, and improve automation as we scale our data platform and other critical data services.

You will join our Data Platform team, part of our local data team that builds and runs the systems that are used by traders, quant researchers and engineering teams, for all their data needs. The Data Platform team is responsible for the foundational platform that our data frameworks and tooling is built on top of. This includes observability, scalability and supporting standardised deployments.

Your Core Responsibilities:

As an SRE within IMC you will join a sub-team that takes a central role in all the data needs and you’ll be working to:

- Design, implement and operate our data platforms.
- Improve observability so we catch issues before our users do.
- Build automation to reduce toil and allow our systems to scale
- Support and own reliability of critical services (e.g. HDFS, Kafka and Dremio)
- Drive long-term architectural improvements, not just fixing issues, but preventing them.

Your Skills and Experience:

- Strong experience managing distributed data platforms (e.g. Kafka, Hadoop, Spark, Dremio); including full installation, debugging and performance tuning
- Hands on experience deploying, configuring and orchestrating software on Linux and Kubernetes, with proven ability to troubleshoot issues in both environments
- Strong experience with infrastructure as code (Ansible preferred) and best practices
- Proficient programming experience in Python
- Ability to read, write and tune SQL queries
- Comfortable reading Java source code, tuning and debugging running JVMs.
- Familarity with data lakehouse technologies (e.g. Iceberg or Delta Lake) as well as query engine technologies (e.g. Dremio, Presto or Trino)
- Exposure to workflow orchestration tools like Airflow or Dagster
- A proactive mindset: you're not just fixing issues but preventing them.
- Comfortable working across teams, with minimal oversight.

Our Tech Stack:

- Data Tools: Hadoop (HDFS), Kafka, Dremio, Iceberg, Clickhouse, Spark, Airflow, Flink
- Infrastructure Automation: Ansible, Puppet, Kubernetes (ArgoCD, Helm, Kustomize)
- Observability: Prometheus, Grafana, AlertManager
- Scripting: Python, Bash, SQL
- Others: PCAP infrastructure

## 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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