Builds and operates web scraping and data acquisition infrastructure running 24/7 across mixed cloud, bare-metal, and OS fleets. Work is roughly half production Rust coding and half operations: logs, monitoring, and proxy tuning. Delivers data to analysts and researchers for trading and research.
The Opportunity
You'll own the systems that feed Nascent's trading and research operations with the data they need to compete β building and operating the web scraping and data acquisition infrastructure that runs 24/7 across a heterogeneous fleet of machines, providers, and operating systems. This is a roughly 50/50 split between software engineering and operations: half your time you're writing production code (primarily Rust) to build new scrapers, defeat anti-bot countermeasures, and architect resilient pipelines; the other half you're deep in logs, monitoring dashboards, and fleet health β diagnosing failures, tuning proxies, and keeping a distributed system humming across mixed infrastructure.
You'll work closely with analysts and researchers who depend on the data you deliver. The problems are genuinely interesting: every major website is actively trying to stop you, infrastructure spans multiple cloud providers and bare metal, and the surface area of what breaks is enormous. The team has a growing analyst presence in Montreal and in-person collaboration matters so this is an onsite role in our Montreal office.
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About you
Preferred experience
About Nascent
Founded in 2020, Nascent exists to build, expand, and capture opportunity, in open markets and permissionless technologies. Building from a base of permanent capital, we deploy assets across a range of both liquid and long-term strategies that ensure we are among the most active users of the open financial system we are helping to build. Weβve backed 100+ early-stage teams that we believe can change markets and expand whatβs possible. At Nascent, we combine that venture + market pedigree with product-grade engineering to turn research into revenue: experiments that ship fast, are evaluated rigorously, and move P&L. We focus on models, low-latency infrastructure, and resilient systems that compound performance over time.
Our Team & Culture
We're an interdisciplinary team of engineers, quants, and operators who treat skill-building like a sport. The culture is competition + curiosity: push to win, share learnings, and iterate publicly through red-teams, internal games, and post-mortems. Autonomy isn't a perk β it's how we ship. Day-to-day you'll be in 2-pizza squads with end-to-end ownership, maker calendars, and a Decision SLA of <24 hours. We prefer guardrails over ceremony and measure success by repeatable edges and measurable outcomes.
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What We Offer
We are an equal opportunity employer and welcome diverse perspectives.