Application Developer Network & Market Data Instrumentation (Python)

Application Developer – Network & Market Data Instrumentation (Python)

Job Type: Contract

Location: New York, NY (Hybrid/Onsite - 3 days per week)

Pay Rate: $70-80/hr bases on experience

Job Summary

We are seeking an experienced Application Developer with strong Python development skills to build automation and tooling supporting a high-performance network instrumentation and packet analytics environment. This is a software engineering role focused on automation—not a network operations position.

The ideal candidate has experience developing automation for network infrastructure, packet capture environments, metadata management, and low-latency trading systems. You''ll design scalable tooling that provides visibility into market data feeds, trading infrastructure, and network performance.

Key Responsibilities

• Develop and maintain Python automation for packet capture and instrumentation platforms
• Build automated validation tools to verify market data feed integrity
• Develop processes to collect and maintain metadata for network infrastructure and trading environments
• Automate configuration generation for packet capture devices and aggregation switches
• Develop tooling to monitor network performance, drops, and latency
• Build APIs and chatbot integration layers for querying instrumentation environments
• Collaborate with infrastructure engineers and business stakeholders
• Improve automation, operational efficiency, and system visibility

Required Qualifications

• Strong Python development experience
• Experience building automation tools
• Experience with packet capture or network analytics platforms
• Understanding of network infrastructure including:
  • Load Balancers
  • Firewalls
  • Network Switches
  • Packet Capture
• Experience with metadata automation
• API development
• Strong software engineering fundamentals
• Excellent communication skills

Preferred Qualifications

• Corvil experience
• Corvil CNE or CMC Certification
• Low-latency trading infrastructure
• Financial markets experience
• Market data feeds
• Network monitoring
• REST APIs
• MCP/AI integration
• Git
• CI/CD