Software Engineer, Infrastructure Engineering

Job Description

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.

As a Staff Software Engineer on our Infrastructure Engineering team, you will be developing the company's core services that drive production and research. You will be expected to work closely with hardware and software teams to build systems that are leveraged by our research and trading teams.

We look for brilliant people with a passion for solving problems through innovation and engineering fundamentals. You’ll work in a collaborative environment that encourages creative thinking and efficient implementation. We embrace experimentation. You’ll work alongside experienced engineers recruited from leading technology companies and universities. You and your team will collaborate closely with top machine learning researchers.

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.

• Help design, implement, and maintain foundational services, frameworks, and libraries for data and compute management
• Work in cooperation with multiple teams to expand and mature our cloud presence
• Develop and enforce company‑wide standards related to code quality, code organization, and codebase management
• Work with Dev Ops to maintain our CI/CD pipelines and ensure that developers can build, test, and deploy changes in a fast and high‑quality manner
• Leverage telemetry toolkits to track core performance and reliability metrics of the services we own. Help fulfill rigorous SLAs and performance guarantees
• Help the company survey, evaluate, and adopt major new technologies. Design, coordinate, and execute company‑wide adoption plans
• Lead complex multi‑team projects. Collaborate across Dev Ops, Sys Ops, Engineering, and Research teams to deliver a cohesive platform across research and production
• Mentor and develop other engineers on the team, and share your practices and knowledge with the team and company

• Computer Science Degree or equivalent experience
• 7+ years of software engineering experience building high‑performance systems
• Experience operating and scaling mission‑critical, large‑scale production systems in languages such as Python, Go and C++
• Excellent communication and project management skills in complex technical domains
• Track record mentoring engineers and leading technical direction

• Experience with ML research platforms and associated frameworks for data processing, batch computing, and research (e.g., Apache Airflow, Kubeflow, Slurm, AWS/GCP Batch, Spark, Dask)
• Expertise in CI/CD, build systems, and best practices for large codebase management (Bazel, Jenkins, Github Actions)
• Exposure to cloud platforms, cloud‑native architectures, and tools like Infrastructure-as-Code for managing cloud infrastructure (Terraform, Pulumi, Cloud Formation)

The base salary range for this position is $270,000 to $300,000 in the location(s) of this posting. Individual salaries are determined through a variety of factors, including, but not limited to, education, experience, knowledge, skills, and geography. Base salary does not include other forms of total compensation, such as bonus compensation and other benefits. Our benefits package includes medical, dental, and vision coverage, life and AD&D insurance, 20 days of paid time off, 9 sick days, and…