Staff Software Engineer, Batch and Realtime Streaming
The Voleon Group5 months ago
Base Salary
$315k - $405k/yr
Responsibilities
- Architect, design, and implement core components of the batch and real-time streaming platform, including ingestion pipelines, storage systems, serving layers, and API interfaces.
- Collaborate across research, legal, trading, finance operations data, and infrastructure teams to ship features for trading systems.
- Work with machine learning researchers and data scientists to design APIs, SDKs, and user interfaces for feature discovery, access, and reuse.
- Ensure data quality, consistency, lineage, versioning, monitoring, and governance for features.
- Optimize data pipelines and storage for high performance, scalability, and reliability across batch and real-time use cases.
- Drive feature-store adoption through documentation, onboarding materials, and developer support.
- Mentor junior engineers and contribute to engineering best practices and technical excellence.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field, or equivalent experience.
- 10+ years of software engineering experience with a strong background in distributed computing and data infrastructure.
- Experience with Python and Go.
- Understanding of Postgres, MySQL, Cassandra, and DuckDB, plus experience with REST and gRPC APIs.
- Strong problem-solving skills focused on high-quality, maintainable, and well-documented solutions.
- Excellent communication and collaboration skills for working with engineering and research teams.
- Preferred experience building large-scale data pipelines and storage systems with tools such as Airflow, Spark, Ray, or Iceberg.
- Preferred exposure to Python data science tooling including pandas, polars, dask, and DuckDB.
- Preferred experience with distributed-systems monitoring and observability tools such as Prometheus, Grafana, or the ELK Stack.
- Prior experience with feature stores such as Feast, Hopsworks, or custom solutions is highly desirable.
Benefits
- Competitive compensation and benefits packages.
- State-of-the-art modern office.
- Daily catered lunches.
- Regular technology talks led by in-house experts.
- Collaborative, intellectually stimulating environment with opportunities to work alongside machine learning researchers and experienced engineers.
Tech Stack
Categories
BackendData Engineering
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.