Software Engineer, Custodian Data

Senior Software Engineer, Custodian Data

Location: San Ramon, CA

Do you have a passion for finance & investing? Are you excited by the challenge of modeling industry-critical data and making it highly available? Do you enjoy solving complex technical problems and delivering high-quality software? If so, we invite you to join our innovative Custodian Data team.

At Ridgeline, our Senior Software Engineers play a key role in building an industry-defining, fast, scalable custodian data engine with full asset class support and global market coverage. You’ll work with cutting‑edge technologies—including AI tools like Git Hub Copilot and ChatGPT—in a fast-moving, creative, and collaborative environment.

As a Senior Engineer on the Custodian Data team, you will contribute to the evolution of our architecture, ensure delivery of high-quality systems, and work closely with design, product, and engineering partners to build cloud‑native applications that power mission‑critical workflows for our customers.

You must be work-authorized in the United States without the need for employer sponsorship.

• Contribute hands‑on technical skills, domain knowledge, and design input to a collaborative engineering team
• Participate in the full software development lifecycle—from requirements and design reviews to building, testing, and deploying code
• Build and maintain cloud-native applications using AWS-based services across our platform
• Design, develop, and support APIs, events, and distributed services with a focus on scalability and reliability
• Develop data pipelines for ingesting and enriching data
• Implement and improve developer tooling and automation to drive high-quality, scalable, and maintainable systems
• Participate in production support, including L2/L3 support and on-call rotation, ensuring high availability for customer-facing systems
• Drive improvements in observability, instrumentation, and performance monitoring
• Advocate for and contribute to strong engineering fundamentals, including automated testing at all levels
• Collaborate cross-functionally with product, QA, and other engineering teams
• Demonstrate ownership, creativity, and a willingness to dive deep into business domain problems
• Contribute to an engineering culture rooted in learning, teaching, inclusion, and transparency

• 5–7+ years in a software engineering role, with experience delivering enterprise-grade applications
• Extensive experience in Java or Kotlin
• Experience building cloud-native applications on AWS, Azure, or Google Cloud
• Experience with API development and/or event-driven architecture
• Understanding of high-availability and distributed systems concepts
• Experience participating in on-call rotations and handling L2/L3 support
• Proficiency with observability tooling, performance monitoring, and production debugging
• Strong grasp of automated testing practices across unit, integration, and end-to-end levels
• Ability to break down complex problems, propose solutions, and communicate clearly
• A degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, or a related discipline, or equivalent experience
• Genuine interest in collaborating with others and having fun at work

• Experience working on data pipelines, reconciliation systems, market data ingestion, or other fintech applications
• Understanding of AWS services and infrastructure patterns
• Experience with Docker or containerization
• Familiarity with agile methodologies
• Experience with caching technologies
• Experience with data modeling or designing schemas
• Exposure to React or willingness to learn
• Experience building or owning systems with significant performance or scale requirements
• Ability to manage multiple priorities and deliver high-quality work in a fast-paced environment
• Strong written and verbal communication skills
• An aptitude for problem-solving and continuous improvement
• Demonstrated ability to collaborate and positively influence your team

Ridgeline is the industry cloud platform for investment management. Founded in 2017 by visionary entrepreneur Dave Duffield (co-founder of People Soft and Workday), Ridgeline is purpose-built to transform how investment managers run their…