Senior Software Engineer, Data Infrastructure
The Voleon Group3 hours ago
Remote, United States +2 moreSenior / Staff+
H1B sponsor
Base Salary
$225k - $310k/yr
Responsibilities
- Guide complex initiatives from requirements gathering and system design through deployment while evaluating technologies and collaborating with stakeholders.
- Build scalable data infrastructure and developer tooling, including data cataloging, versioning, and lineage systems.
- Design scalable services, APIs, highly available systems, and large-scale data infrastructure.
- Define the team's technical roadmap and contribute to strategic engineering goals.
- Provide technical guidance and mentorship to engineering and research staff.
- Collaborate with diverse engineering teams and machine learning researchers to improve data usage and team productivity.
Requirements
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or Engineering, or equivalent.
- 5+ years of relevant software engineering experience.
- Proven software design and implementation experience focused on correctness, robustness, efficiency, and scale.
- Experience with large codebases and modular, extensible, maintainable software.
- Expertise in a modern programming language such as Python, Go, Java, or C++.
- Hands-on experience developing in a Linux/UNIX environment.
- Experience designing and implementing scalable services and APIs, highly available systems, and/or large-scale data infrastructure.
- Experience with data storage and management technologies such as PostgreSQL, Artifactory, Ceph, or Redis.
- Strong communication skills and ability to explain complex ideas clearly.
- Preferred familiarity with Kubernetes, Docker, Iceberg, BigQuery, Snowflake, DynamoDB, Trino/Athena, Airflow, or Slurm.
- Preferred experience building data platforms with a developer-experience focus, including APIs, access patterns, or infrastructure-abstraction tooling.
Benefits
- Competitive compensation and benefits packages.
- Technology talks led by company experts.
- Beautiful modern office.
- Daily catered lunches.
- Collaborative and collegial working environment.
- Referral program with a potential $15,000 referral bonus for eligible successful hires.
- Equal opportunity employer.
Tech Stack
Amazon DynamoDBApache AirflowC++DockerGoGoogle BigQueryJavaKubernetesLinuxPostgreSQLPythonRedisSnowflake
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.