Research Platform - Software Engineer
Qube Research & Technologies4 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.
About Qube Research & Technologies
Qube Research & Technologies is a global quantitative and systematic investment manager that develops and trades data-driven strategies across liquid asset classes for institutional investors. The firm manages client capital and proprietary funds, earning management and performance fees. Founded in 2018 and headquartered in London, it operates with offices in 16 locations worldwide.