Senior Software Engineer

the company | Senior Software Engineer | Los Angeles, CA (HYBRID) / Hyderabad, India | 1 LA + 2 Hyderabad

I'm Julien — I lead Product Engineering  background is tech, not finance: startups, Meta, data infrastructure companies.

I'm hands‑on and building a flat, small team that operates like an engineering org, not a bank IT department. If you come from a tech background, this post is for you.

We're building the next‑generation platform for Oaktree's credit business (private credit included) — one of the largest and most complex investment strategies at a firm managing $220B+ in assets.

This is a newly formed Product Engineering group, and we're modernizing everything: practices, architecture, tooling, culture.

In the past month alone we've stood up a new CI/CD system, evolved the architecture, and gone from release cycles measured in months to hours. We're shipping rapidly and the pace is accelerating.

The work: data‑intensive applications across the full stack of a credit investment platform — ingestion, transformation, analytics, and the tools that put insights into the hands of investment professionals. No traditional PMs — you work directly with business stakeholders, own priorities, and ship.

This is a hands‑on, code‑every‑day role.

• 10+ years building and owning data‑intensive systems in production
• Strong CS fundamentals (data structures, distributed systems, concurrency, performance)
• Deep expertise in data modeling, pipeline architecture, and systems that process/transform/serve large volumes of data
• Python + at least one statically typed/compiled language (C#/.NET, C++, Java, Scala, Go)
• Cloud‑native experience (our environment is Azure, but what matters is you've operated at scale)
• Comfortable with ambiguity, direct stakeholder engagement, and owning outcomes end‑to‑end
• Genuine interest in applying generative AI practically across engineering and product workflows

A note on title: the internal title is Vice President, which is standard in finance.

In substance this is a Senior/Staff Engineer IC role.

Locations: 1 role in Los Angeles (hybrid Tue-Thu, DTLA office) + 2 roles in Hyderabad, India.

Interview process:

• 0. Recruiter screen
• 1. Behavioral + coding (30 min each, can be split or combined)
• 2. Onsite: system design take‑home + panel, stakeholder meeting, hiring manager

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