Senior Engineer, Advanced Computing - HPC/Kubernetes

Balyasny Asset Management • New York, NY

67d

About The Position

BAM is seeking an innovative and driven self-starter for a Senior Engineer position in the Advanced Computing Engineering team. Candidates must embody a mindset of continuous learning and innovation to deliver solutions that help drive the success of the business.

Requirements

• Expertise with Linux systems, including kernel operations, performance tuning, and troubleshooting complex system issues.
• Extensive software and system design experience.
• Proficient in programming with at least one compiled language (C++ and Go are preferred), and one interpreted language, such as Ruby, Python, or Perl.
• Proven experience with Kubernetes architecture, including customization, operators, and advanced deployment patterns.
• Ability to diagnose and resolve low-level system issues through methodical analysis and creative problem-solving.
• Experience with AI/ML workloads and understanding their unique infrastructure requirements.
• Performance engineering and experience in modern HPC environments.

Nice To Haves

• Experience with enterprise storage systems and parallel filesystems (e.g.: Vast Data, Weka, NetApp, Pure, Lustre, GPFS).
• Familiarity with infrastructure-as-code tools (Terraform, Ansible, Puppet, etc.).
• Experience with observability stacks (Prometheus, Grafana, etc.).
• Knowledge of networking protocols and troubleshooting in distributed systems.
• Configuring and working with advanced I/O hardware.

Responsibilities

• Contribute and build our HPC environment used for research.
• Develop and maintain our global storage offering for the firm across multiple datacenters and environments.
• Contribute to our Linux servers.
• Develop and maintain our Kubernetes estate for the firm both on AWS and on-prem.
• Develop and improve our proprietary task scheduling system.

What This Job Offers

• Career Level: Senior
• Industry: Securities, Commodity Contracts, and Other Financial Investments and Related Activities