Senior Software Engineer, Platform Engineering – Developer Acceleration

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

Platform Engineering owns the end-to-end experience of how engineers, investment teams and researchers at Balyasny build, test, ship and run software at scale – from source control and authentication systems that underpin our live trading environments, to the platforms that keep tens of thousands of builds, applications and tasks running reliably across compute providers, and developer acceleration tooling that deeply integrates across engineering workflows.

The primary focus of this role is to design, build and maintain Balyasny’s internal developer platform, with a strong focus on infrastructure, core data services and runtime enablement; anchored on developer acceleration, PaaS and AI-SDLC enablement.

Key Responsibilities

• Build solutions that enable engineers and researchers to accelerate their development processes with agents – from code generation through to testing and deployment.
• Develop solutions that enable investment teams and researchers to mobilize ideas in minutes.
• Architect, build, and maintain common software and platform solutions leveraged across the business, with a focus on scalability, reliability, and automation.
• Contribute to technology-wide engineering standards, frameworks and utilities to drive efficiency and standardization of technology solutions across the estate.
• Design and automate deployment pipelines and operational processes to improve efficiency, reliability, and developer autonomy.
• Champion SRE and DevOps best practices—including observability, automation, CI/CD, and infrastructure as code—across cloud and on-premises environments.
• Participate in on-call rotation and incident response, sharing responsibility for production reliability.

To be considered a good fit, you must have:

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