Network Engineer - Trading Infrastructure
Raven is a proprietary high-frequency trading and market-making firm.
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About Raven
Raven is a proprietary algorithmic high-frequency trading firm focused on liquidity provision and market making. It operates across centralized and decentralized crypto venues, prediction markets, and traditional financial markets, using low-latency trading infrastructure and its own capital. Raven offers liquidity programs for token issuers, multi-venue coverage, TGE market making, and anchor-liquidity engagements for new exchanges and market venues.
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About the Role
You will own regions and services of a global, latency-critical trading network. You will make infrastructure changes as code, keep DNS, firewall and SSH access accurate, operate traffic-switching automation, verify latency against RTT targets, tune Linux hosts, and improve scripts and runbooks.
Requirements
- Working knowledge of Linux
- Scripting skills for automation
- Networking basics: IP/CIDR, subnets, routing, TCP/UDP, DNS, TLS, firewalls
- Packet-capture literacy
- Hands-on cloud platform experience
- Evidence of self-taught learning
- Care around production systems
- Fluent English
Responsibilities
- Make estate changes as code, reviewing every plan before applying
- Keep DNS, firewall rules and SSH access accurate from a single source of truth
- Operate automation that switches traffic between private circuits and cloud peering
- Run latency and reachability checks against RTT targets and use packet capture
- Perform Linux host tuning including kernel parameters, NIC settings, IRQ affinity and CPU pinning
- Improve bootstrap, monitoring and blockchain-node scripts and maintain runbooks
Hiring Process
Four stages. No filler rounds, no games. 1. Intro call: short conversation with the hiring lead, context on the role/firm, understand fit. 2. Technical deep-dive: role-specific, understand how you think. 3. Take-home or case: a scoped problem reflecting actual work, review the output with you. 4. Onsite or final round: meet the broader team, cultural fit, stretch discussion, offers move fast after this.