Senior Software Engineer, Platform Team

The Voleon Group•Berkeley, CA

1d•$225,000 - $255,000

About The Position

Voleon is a technology company that applies state-of-the-art AI and machine learning techniques to real-world problems in finance. For nearly two decades, we have led our industry and worked at the frontier of applying AI/ML to investment management. We have become a multibillion-dollar asset manager, and we have ambitious goals for the future. Your colleagues will include internationally recognized experts in artificial intelligence and machine learning research as well as highly experienced finance and technology professionals. The people who shape our company come from other backgrounds, including concert music performances, humanitarian aid, opera singing, sports writing, and BMX racing. You will be part of a team that loves to succeed together. In addition to our enriching and collegial working environment, we offer highly competitive compensation and benefits packages, technology talks by our experts, a beautiful modern office, daily catered lunches, and more. Your Team As a Senior Software Engineer on the Software Platform team, you will design and evolve the 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 â delivering reliable, scalable services that abstract away infrastructure complexity. Operating at the heart of the firmâs platform, this is a high-impact area: the systems you build directly shape the reliability, performance, and scalability of research and production workloads across the organization. You will partner closely with Infrastructure, Security, application engineering teams, and ML researchers to deliver foundational platform capabilities that improve reliability, performance, and productivity firm-wide â enabling engineers and researchers to focus on domain-specific innovation. This role operates at the platform services layer (not bare-metal infrastructure) and emphasizes distributed systems design, strong abstractions, and operational excellence. We look for engineers who are motivated by solving complex problems through strong fundamentals and thoughtful system design. Youâll work in a highly collaborative environment that values experimentation, clear ownership, and efficient execution. Our team includes experienced engineers from leading technology companies and top academic programs, working closely with infrastructure specialists and machine learning researchers to build resilient, high-leverage systems that power the firm.

Requirements

Computer Science / Engineering degree, or equivalent experience
5+ years of software engineering experience
Proven track record of software design and implementation with 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
Design and implementation of scalable services and APIs, highly-available systems, and/or large-scale data infrastructure
Experience with data storage and management technologies (e.g. PostgreSQL, Artifactory, Ceph, Redis)
Familiarity with job scheduling and orchestration technologies (e.g. Airflow, Slurm)
Familiarity with cloud-based data storage, querying, and processing technologies
Work with large codebases and experience building modular, extensible, and maintainable software
Strong communication skills and a proven ability to explain complex ideas with clarity and simplicity

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
Improve system reliability, observability, and operational performance
Provide technical leadership and mentorship across the team
Lead complex projects from start to finish, which includes gathering project requirements, translating them into a rational software design, reasoning effectively about supporting or dependent technologies, and communicating effectively with collaborators and teammates
Provide technical guidance to engineering and research staff
Mentor and grow individual contributors to continuously up-level the team