Senior Software Engineer, Strategy Research Analytics
The Voleon Group2 months ago
Base Salary
$290k - $400k/yr
Responsibilities
- Own and operate recurring analytics pipelines, including monitoring, alerting, and reliability improvements.
- Lead architectural evolution through schema standardization, DAG consolidation, and legacy workflow modernization.
- Drive cross-team alignment when consolidating duplicated or inconsistent analytics outputs.
- Build and maintain analytics tables and metrics with disciplined schemas and reproducible computation.
- Define reliability standards, SLOs, observability patterns, runbooks, and incident-response practices.
- Improve documentation, dataset discoverability, metadata, lineage, and data contracts.
- Optimize distributed compute, SQL queries, partitioning, and columnar storage layouts.
- Mentor engineers through design reviews and promote operational and data-modeling rigor.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or equivalent professional experience.
- 6+ years of experience building and operating analytics or data infrastructure systems.
- Strong proficiency in Python and SQL.
- Deep experience with distributed query engines and large-scale compute systems.
- Demonstrated ownership of large-scale or mission-critical data infrastructure.
- Strong data-modeling expertise, including schema design, partitioning strategy, and reproducibility.
- Expertise in metadata management, data lineage, and robust data-governance principles.
- Preferred: experience leading architectural migrations or major data-platform refactors.
- Preferred: familiarity with AWS cloud technologies and on-premises compute clusters such as Slurm, SSH, and Unix.
- Preferred: exposure to quantitative research or machine-learning environments.
Tech Stack
Categories
Data 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.