Senior Platform Engineer - Developer Experience & AI-SDLC

Balyasny Asset Management L.P.; Greater London; On-site; GBP 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

Balyasny Asset Management L.P. is seeking a senior Platform Engineer to design, build, and maintain an internal developer platform. The role focuses on infrastructure, core data services and runtime enablement, anchored on developer acceleration, PaaS and AI-SDLC enablement.

You will work across engineering, research and trading teams to deliver scalable, reliable platform services, with emphasis on automation, CI/CD and IaC. London-based, on-site role with on-call responsibilities.

Qualifications

• 10+ years hands-on experience architecting and delivering production-ready software.
• Bachelor’s degree in engineering, computer science, information systems, or equivalent experience.
• Strong GoLang and Python development experience.
• Hands-on experience with agentic workflows and SDKs.
• Experience working with containers and Kubernetes.
• Experience working with distributed high throughput systems.
• Experience with configuration/infrastructure as code (e.g. Terraform).
• Detailed communication and documentation skills – ability to present ideas clearly.

Responsibilities

• Build solutions that enable engineers and researchers to accelerate development with agents, from code generation to deployment.
• Develop tools enabling researchers to mobilize ideas in minutes.
• Architect, build and maintain platform solutions for scalability, reliability, and automation.
• Contribute to technology-wide engineering standards, frameworks and utilities.
• Design and automate deployment pipelines and operational processes for efficiency and autonomy.
• Champion SRE and DevOps practices—observability, automation, CI/CD, and IaC across cloud and on-prem.
• Participate in on-call rotation and incident response for production reliability.

Skills

Go

Python

Kubernetes

Distributed systems

SDKs

Agentic workflows

DevOps practices

Education

Bachelor's degree in Engineering/CS/IS

Tools

Terraform

Kubernetes

Job description

Balyasny Asset Management L.P. is seeking a senior Platform Engineer to design, build, and maintain an internal developer platform. The role focuses on infrastructure, core data services and runtime enablement, anchored on developer acceleration, PaaS and AI-SDLC enablement.

You will work across engineering, research and trading teams to deliver scalable, reliable platform services, with emphasis on automation, CI/CD and IaC. London-based, on-site role with on-call responsibilities.