
Senior Software Engineer, Execution Engineering
The Voleon Group6 months ago
Berkeley, CA, USA or New York, NY, USASenior
Base Salary
$225k - $255k/yr
Responsibilities
- Design real-time distributed trading systems that place orders across global markets and asset classes.
- Integrate new assets and markets and clarify resulting requirements.
- Own systems through iteration, documentation, testing, and ongoing support.
- Build observability and remediation tooling for analyzing trading performance and risk.
- Improve trading-system resilience and performance.
- Participate in on-call rotations, incident response, root-cause analysis, and postmortems.
- Lead projects across multiple engineering teams and collaborate with non-engineering stakeholders.
- Mentor engineers and share engineering practices across the team and company.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s, Master’s, or doctorate degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field, or equivalent experience.
- 5+ years of software engineering experience architecting and operationalizing high-performance, scalable, reliable, and resilient distributed systems.
- Expertise building cloud-native distributed systems on AWS, Azure, or GCP.
- Experience with modern cloud technologies, data observability tools such as CloudWatch, Grafana, and Prometheus, and infrastructure-as-code tools such as CloudFormation and Terraform.
- Experience designing telemetry standards and building dashboards and actionable alerting.
- Comfort working in containerized environments with Docker and Kubernetes.
- Strong coding, analytical, debugging, and troubleshooting skills.
- Strong communication and stakeholder-influencing skills.
- Familiarity with trading domains, including order management systems, market data, and order lifecycle, is preferred.
- Ability to leverage AI tools for productivity, workflow improvement, and decision-making is preferred.
- Experience mentoring engineers and leading technical direction is preferred.
Benefits
- Competitive compensation and benefits packages.
- Technology talks from company experts.
- Beautiful modern office.
- Daily catered lunches.
Tech Stack
Categories
BackendData Engineering