Research Platform - Software Engineer
Qube Research & Technologies3 months ago
Hong Kong, Hong KongSenior
Responsibilities
- Design, build, and operate distributed services that manage compute workloads and data access across large-scale infrastructure.
- Develop platform APIs and tooling that improve quantitative researcher productivity.
- Improve the reliability, scalability, and performance of compute-intensive research workflows.
- Build scheduling, resource management, observability, and security solutions.
- Partner with researchers and infrastructure teams to translate complex requirements into scalable platform capabilities.
- Own systems end-to-end from design and implementation through production operation.
Requirements
- Bachelor's, master's, or PhD in Computer Science or a related field, or equivalent practical experience.
- At least 5 years of experience building and operating large-scale distributed systems in production.
- Strong proficiency in C++, Java, Rust, Go, or similar systems languages.
- Strong understanding of distributed systems, concurrency, performance, reliability, and fault tolerance.
- Experience designing services, platforms, or infrastructure used by other engineers.
- Preferred experience with internal developer platforms, cloud infrastructure, orchestration systems, or HPC environments.
- Preferred familiarity with GPU-accelerated workloads and ML frameworks such as PyTorch or TensorFlow.
- Preferred experience supporting researchers, data scientists, or other highly technical users.
- Exposure to quantitative finance or large-scale data-intensive environments is preferred.
Benefits
- Opportunity to solve distributed systems and infrastructure problems at scale.
- Build platforms that directly accelerate research and innovation.
- Work closely with quantitative researchers and engineers.
- Own critical systems in a technically autonomous environment.
- Initiatives and programs supporting work-life balance.
- Equal opportunity workplace focused on diversity and respectful collaboration.