Platform Engineer

Point72 Asset Management, L.P; Warszawa; On-site; PLN 240,000 - 420,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Sports card

Private life insurance

Private medical and dental care

Private pension scheme

Volunteer opportunities

Affinity groups support

Business travel accident insurance

Educational assistance reimbursement

Job summary

Point72's Warsaw office is hiring for a Data Platform Engineer to join our Technology Infrastructure Team. You will help build and run scalable data platforms, collaborating with software and data engineers to ensure reliable, secure, and efficient services.

Ideal candidates have 3–5 years in DevOps/SRE, strong AWS, Kubernetes, Terraform, and CI/CD experience, plus excellent collaboration across teams in a fast-paced environment.

Qualifications

• 3–5 years in platform engineering, DevOps, or SRE for production systems.
• Bachelor's degree in CS, SE, or equivalent.
• 3+ years designing and operating AWS cloud infrastructure.
• Proficiency with Docker and Kubernetes.
• Experience with Terraform and IaC.
• Strong scripting (Python, Bash) and Git workflows.
• Experience building CI/CD pipelines (GitHub Actions, Jenkins).
• Experience with monitoring and observability tools.
• Strong troubleshooting in Linux and incident response.
• Excellent communication and collaboration.

Responsibilities

• Support development and operation of data infrastructure in collaboration with software/data engineers.
• Design and implement cloud infrastructure for large-scale data services focusing on scalability, performance, resilience.
• Provision core AWS infrastructure: compute, storage, networking, IAM using IaC (Terraform).
• Support container orchestration with Kubernetes.
• Monitor and optimize cloud resource utilization for cost-efficiency.
• Develop and maintain CI/CD pipelines with security checks.
• Apply SRE and observability best practices to improve reliability.
• Collaborate to improve developer experience with robust tools and secure configurations.

Skills

Cloud infrastructure

Terraform

Kubernetes

Docker

Python/Bash

CI/CD automation

Observability

Linux

Git workflows

Communication

Education

Bachelor's degree in CS/SE

Tools

Terraform

Kubernetes

Jenkins

GitHub Actions

IaC tooling

Job description

A Career with Point72's Technology Team

As Point72 reimagines the future of investing, our Technology group is constantly improving our company’s IT infrastructure, positioning us at the frontofront a rapidly evolving technology landscape. We’re a team of experts experimenting, discovering new ways to harness the power of open source solutions, and embracing enterprise agile methodology. We encourage professional development to ensure you bring innovative ideas to our products while satisfying your own intellectual curiosity. Our Technology Infrastructure Team engineers and operates the foundational technology platforms that power all of Point72’s applications and businesses.

Our disciplines span a broad array of technologies from datacenter infrastructure to large scale cloud services, with the shared goal of providing the most reliable, performant, modern technology platforms to improve time-to-market for our business. We also deliver end-user technology solutions to support the evolving collaboration and productivity needs of our global teams. Our team focuses on innovation and challenging the current state of our infrastructure technology in a fast-paced, dynamic, and collaborative working environment.

WHAT YOU'LL DO

• As a member of the Data Platform Engineering team, you will support the development and operation of our data infrastructure. Working closely with software engineers, data engineers, you'll contribute to building, maintaining, and improving reliable systems that power our enterprise data platform.
• Your responsibilities include:
• Contribute to the design and implementation of cloud infrastructure for our large-scale data services and distributed systems, focusing on scalability, performance, and resilience
• Provision and manage core cloud infrastructure on AWS (including compute, storage, networking, and IAM) utilizing Infrastructure as Code (IaC) principles and tools, primarily Terraform
• Support the evolution of our container orchestration platform by deploying and maintaining containerized applications on Kubernetes
• Assist in monitoring and optimizing cloud resource utilization, identifying opportunities to improve the cost-efficiency and right-sizing of our AWS and Kubernetes environments
• Develop and maintain CI/CD pipelines and automation, integrating automated security checks and guardrails to support the continuous and secure delivery of software
• Apply and refine SRE and observability best practices to enhance the stability, reliability, and transparency of the data platform
• Collaborate with engineering teams to improve the developer experience by contributing to the development of robust tools, secure configurations, and streamlined operational workflows

WHAT'S REQUIRED

• 3 to 5 years of professional experience in platform engineering, DevOps, site reliability engineering, or infrastructure engineering supporting production systems
• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, a related technical field, or equivalent practical experience
• 3+ years’ experience designing and operating cloud infrastructure (AWS preferred), including computer, networking, storage, and identity services
• Proficiency with containerization and orchestration technologies, specifically Docker and Kubernetes
• Experience provisioning environments using Infrastructure as Code (IaC) tools, with a strong emphasis on Terraform
• Strong scripting and programming skills in Python, Bash, or comparable languages, alongside demonstrable experience with Git-based source control workflows
• Experience building and operating CI/CD pipelines and automation tooling (e.g., GitHub Actions, Jenkins, or similar platforms)
• Experience implementing monitoring, logging, and alerting solutions using modern observability tools to ensure system health
• Strong troubleshooting and incident response skills within Linux environments, with a track record of diagnosing complex production issues
• Excellent communication and collaboration skills, with the ability to work effectively across technical and non-technical stakeholders
• Commitment to the highest ethical standards

WE TAKE CARE OF OUR PEOPLE

We invest in our people, their careers, their health, and their well-being. When you work here, we provide:

• Sports card
• Private life insurance
• Private medical and dental care, with vision allowance
• Private pension scheme
• Volunteer opportunities
• Support for employee-led affinity groups representing women, people of color and the LGBT+ community
• Business travel accident insurance
• Employee assistance programEducational assistance reimbursement

ABOUT POINT72

Point72 is a leading global alternative investment firm led by Steven A. Cohen. Building on more than 30 years of investing experience, Point72 seeks to deliver superior returns for its investors through fundamental and systematic investing strategies across asset classes and geographies. We aim to attract and retain the industry's brightest talent by cultivating an investor-led culture and committing to our people's long-term growth. For more information, visit https://point72.com/.

Our Warsaw office gives us access to world-class talent with a reputation for excellence and innovation. We're looking to build an office of subject-matter experts whose fresh perspectives will help evolve our infrastructure and advance the capabilities of our teams. Learn more at https://point72.com/Warsaw.