Software Engineer, Platform Team

The Voleon Group is hiring a Software Engineer for its Software Platform team. The role designs and evolves distributed platform systems, scheduling and execution services, and storage abstractions that support research and trading workflows across on-premises and cloud environments.

Responsibilities:

• Design and implement distributed scheduling and workflow systems
• Improve job prioritization, resource allocation, and orchestration across hybrid environments
• Build scalable, reliable platform services and storage abstractions
• Lead complex projects from design through production delivery
• Improve system reliability, observability, and operational performance
• Provide technical leadership and mentorship across the team
• Lead complex projects from start to finish, which includes gathering project requirements, translating them into a rational software design, reasoning effectively about supporting or dependent technologies, and communicating effectively with collaborators and teammates
• Provide technical guidance to engineering and research staff
• Mentor and grow individual contributors to continuously up-level the team

Requirements:

• Computer Science / Engineering degree, or equivalent experience
• 3+ years of software engineering experience
• Proven track record of software design and implementation with focus on correctness, robustness, efficiency, and scale
• Expertise in a modern programming language, such as Python, Go, Java or C++
• Hands-on experience developing in a Linux/UNIX environment
• Design and implementation of scalable services and APIs, highly-available systems, and/or large-scale data infrastructure
• Experience with data storage and management technologies (e.g. PostgreSQL, Artifactory, Ceph, Redis)
• Familiarity with job scheduling and orchestration technologies (e.g. Airflow, Slurm)
• Familiarity with cloud-based data storage, querying, and processing technologies
• Work with large codebases and experience building modular, extensible, and maintainable software
• Strong communication skills and a proven ability to explain complex ideas with clarity and simplicity