Sr SWE, Compute Platform & Cloud Infrastructure

Location: Greater Boston Area (Hybrid)
Compensation: $135,000 - $325,000 Base + Bonus + Comprehensive Benefits

Our client is a leading quantitative investment management firm that leverages advanced technology, large-scale data, and systematic research to drive investment decisions. Technology is at the core of the business, and engineering teams play a critical role in building the platforms that power research, portfolio construction, trading, and analytics.

The firm is seeking a Senior Software Engineer to join its Compute Platforms team
, responsible for developing the foundational infrastructure that supports compute, workflow orchestration, messaging, AI, and observability capabilities across the organization.

This is a highly visible, hands-on opportunity to design and build large-scale distributed systems while partnering closely with research and engineering teams on business-critical platforms.

• Design and develop scalable compute, workflow, messaging, AI, and observability platforms
• Collaborate with research and engineering teams to gather requirements and deliver technical solutions
• Lead architecture discussions and drive technical decisions for large-scale distributed systems
• Build cloud-native solutions using AWS, Kubernetes, Docker, Python, and related technologies
• Develop Infrastructure-as-Code solutions using Terraform
• Create and maintain CI/CD pipelines with automated testing and deployment processes
• Perform code reviews and mentor team members on engineering best practices
• Participate in production support and on-call rotations for critical platform services

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or related field
• 8+ years of professional software engineering experience, preferably with Python or another object-oriented language
• 4+ years designing and architecting large-scale production systems
• 3+ years building distributed, high-performance applications