Platform Engineer

Schonfeld•New York, NY

1d•$150,000 - $180,000

About The Position

We are seeking a proactive and self-motivated engineer to join our Platform Solutions team in Schonfeld’s technology department. This team is responsible for designing, building, and maintaining our quantitative development platform and ensuring its high availability and scalability. Our objective is to provide a reliable, user friendly, fully automated platform that allows our developers and quantitative investment teams to quickly get up and running operationally without worrying about infrastructure. The ideal candidate should demonstrate excellent leadership, a willingness to take initiative, be a strong learner, and collaborate effectively with cross-functional teams.

Requirements

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field (or equivalent experience).
Experience architecting end‑to‑end solutions in partnership with our quant and dev teams
Strong coding skills in at least one language, ideally Python, but open to other languages.
Strong knowledge of Kubernetes and container orchestration.
Extensive experience with major cloud providers (AWS, Azure) and cloud-native technologies.
Experience building and maintaining CI/CD pipelines leveraging DevOps practices.
Excellent cultural fit and ability to collaborate effectively with cross-functional teams.
Excellent communication and interpersonal skills to effectively communicate with Portfolio managers

Nice To Haves

Ability to understand and model business workflows in a financial institution, and reflect them in platform and tooling decisions.
Passionate about cloud-native technologies and has a strong desire to learn and grow.
Has a deep understanding of Infrastructure as Code (IaC) principles and practices.
Is adept at translating complex requirements into robust technical solutions.
Is committed to driving engineering excellence and continuous improvement.
Have experience in tools like coder and prefect

Responsibilities

Collaborate with quant and development teams to ensure seamless application deployments, and to establish comprehensive coding environments from day one.
Automate infrastructure provisioning and management processes. We believe all infrastructure and tools we provide should be self-service and highly maintainable at scale.
Contribute and lead efforts to continuously improve the platform reliability, security, and cost optimization.
On-call Duties: Participate in L3 on-call rotations and incident response processes.
Mentor and upskill team members on cloud-native technologies and best practices.

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