Software Engineer, Platform Team

The Voleon Group

1d•$235,000 - $300,000

About The Position

As a Software Engineer on Voleon’s Software Platform team, you will design and evolve distributed systems that power 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, delivering reliable and scalable services that abstract away infrastructure complexity. The role operates at the platform services layer rather than bare-metal infrastructure, with an emphasis on distributed systems design, strong abstractions, and operational excellence. The systems you build will influence the reliability, performance, and scalability of research and production workloads across the organization. You will work closely with Infrastructure, Security, application engineering teams, and ML researchers to deliver foundational platform capabilities that improve firm-wide reliability, performance, and productivity. The team values collaboration, experimentation, clear ownership, and efficient execution.

Requirements

A Computer Science or Engineering degree, or equivalent experience.
At least 3 years of software engineering experience.
A proven track record in software design and implementation, with a focus 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 requirements gathering and software design through production delivery, accounting for 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.