Senior Software Engineer, Platform Team
The Voleon Group6 months ago
Base Salary
$225k - $255k/yr
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 requirements gathering and software design through production delivery.
- Improve system reliability, observability, and operational performance.
- Provide technical guidance and mentorship to engineering and research staff.
- Mentor and grow individual contributors across the team.
Requirements
- Computer Science or Engineering degree, or equivalent experience.
- 5+ years of software engineering experience.
- Proven software design and implementation experience focused 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.
- Experience designing scalable services and APIs, highly available systems, and/or large-scale data infrastructure.
- Experience with data storage and management technologies such as PostgreSQL, Artifactory, Ceph, or Redis.
- Familiarity with job scheduling and orchestration technologies such as Airflow or Slurm.
- Familiarity with cloud-based data storage, querying, and processing technologies.
- Experience working with large codebases and building modular, extensible, and maintainable software.
- Strong communication skills and the ability to explain complex ideas clearly and simply.
Benefits
- Competitive compensation and benefits package.
- Technology talks from company experts.
- Beautiful modern office.
- Daily catered lunches.
- Collaborative working environment with experienced technology and research professionals.
About The Voleon Group
The Voleon Group is a privately held quantitative hedge fund that applies statistical machine learning to public markets. Founded in 2007 and headquartered in Berkeley, California, it manages multi‑billion‑dollar investment funds for institutional investors and earns management and performance fees. Its researchers and engineers build scalable trading and research systems to forecast securities and execute strategies across global markets.