Senior Software Engineer, Platform Team

The Voleon Group

5d • $225,000 - $255,000

About The Position

As a Senior Software Engineer on Voleon’s Software Platform team, you will design and evolve distributed systems that support research and trading workflows across on-premises and cloud environments. The team owns core distributed services, cloud platforms, job scheduling and execution systems, and standardized storage interfaces, building reliable and scalable services that abstract away infrastructure complexity.

This high-impact role operates at the platform services layer rather than bare-metal infrastructure. You will help shape the reliability, performance, and scalability of research and production workloads across the organization, with an emphasis on distributed systems design, strong abstractions, and operational excellence.

You will work closely with Infrastructure, Security, application engineering teams, and machine learning researchers to deliver foundational platform capabilities that improve reliability, performance, and productivity firm-wide. The team values experimentation, clear ownership, collaboration, and efficient execution.

Requirements

• Computer Science or Engineering degree, or equivalent experience.
• At least 5 years of software engineering experience.
• A proven track record of software design and implementation focused on correctness, robustness, efficiency, and scale.
• 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.
• Familiarity with job scheduling and orchestration technologies such as Airflow or Slurm.
• Familiarity with cloud-based data storage, querying, and processing technologies.
• Experience working with large codebases and building modular, extensible, and maintainable software.
• Strong communication skills and the ability to explain complex ideas clearly and simply.

Responsibilities

• Design and implement distributed scheduling and workflow systems.
• Improve job prioritization, resource allocation, and orchestration across hybrid environments.
• Build scalable, reliable platform services and storage abstractions.
• Lead complex projects from design through production delivery, including gathering requirements, translating them into software designs, evaluating supporting or dependent technologies, and communicating with collaborators and teammates.
• Improve system reliability, observability, and operational performance.
• Provide technical leadership and guidance to engineering and research staff.
• Mentor and grow individual contributors to continuously up-level the team.

Benefits

• Highly competitive compensation and benefits packages.
• Technology talks by company experts.
• A beautiful modern office.
• Daily catered lunches.
• Potential $15,000 referral bonus if a referred candidate is successfully hired and employed, subject to program eligibility and terms.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior