Senior SRE & Platform Engineer - High-Impact Infra

Paragon Alpha - Hedge Fund Talent Business; Greater London; On-site; GBP 120,000 - 170,000; Full time

Job summary

Paragon Alpha in London seeks a Senior SRE / Platform Engineer to scale the infrastructure powering its elite quant hedge fund. You’ll own reliability, latency, and platform performance across Kubernetes, observability, and internal tooling.

You’ll collaborate with researchers and traders, develop Python-based services with Go/TypeScript components, and automate release processes on Linux-based systems, driving high availability and operational excellence.

Qualifications

• Kubernetes expertise and platform engineering foundations.
• Strong observability, metrics, logging, tracing experience.
• Proficiency in Python; Go/TypeScript across stack is a plus.
• Linux systems, networking, and automation skills for scale.
• Experience with reliability, latency optimization, and reducing toil.

Responsibilities

• Own reliability and performance of the trading platform infrastructure.
• Build tooling and internal developer platforms for researchers and traders.
• Develop services in Python with Go/TypeScript components; support release engineering.
• Maintain Kubernetes clusters and large-scale distributed systems.
• Improve observability and reduce operational toil through automation.

Skills

Kubernetes

Observability

Python

Go

TypeScript

Linux

Networking

Automation

Release engineering

SRE / Platform engineering

Job description

Paragon Alpha in London seeks a Senior SRE / Platform Engineer to scale the infrastructure powering its elite quant hedge fund. You’ll own reliability, latency, and platform performance across Kubernetes, observability, and internal tooling.

You’ll collaborate with researchers and traders, develop Python-based services with Go/TypeScript components, and automate release processes on Linux-based systems, driving high availability and operational excellence.