DevOps Engineer (USA) at Trexquant Investment
Stamford, CT
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Aug 16, 2026
Stamford, CT
Aug 18, 2026
What this job asks for AI summary
This role focuses on building and maintaining the automation, tooling, and deployment pipelines that support a quantitative research and trading firm's infrastructure. Day-to-day work centers on Kubernetes orchestration, CI/CD pipeline engineering, configuration management, and internal tooling development, in close collaboration with Linux Systems Engineers. The position suits a hands-on engineer comfortable in a Linux-heavy, fast-paced environment.
Mid level · 2+ years
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How this req sits in the market our data
Most people in this occupation already list these. Still required — just not what gets you shortlisted.
What the occupation pays Median $138,970 (middle half $107,524–$175,762).
Estimated from BLS employment for this occupation and area, per-skill prevalence across our listing corpus, and published wage benchmarks — as of Aug 18, 2026. It is a model, not a headcount.
Why we read it this way (5)
The observability tools (Prometheus, Grafana, ELK Stack) are listed under 'Familiarity with' language, indicating a preferred rather than hard-required gate; all three are captured under a single preferred skill entry with alternatives.
GitLab CI is listed with an 'or similar' qualifier in the Requirements section, making it a hard gate on CI/CD pipeline capability; common substitutes are noted as alternatives.
Prior experience with quantitative research, trading platforms, or HPC environments is listed explicitly as 'Preferred' and is not captured as a named technology skill.
The role title is 'DevOps Engineer' with no level modifier, so advertised seniority is Unspecified. The 2+ years requirement and scope of responsibilities support a Mid-level classification.
SOC classification is Medium confidence: the role clearly writes and ships automation code and pipelines (pointing to 15-1252), but has a meaningful infrastructure operations component that could support 15-1244.
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