Platform Engineer: Low-Latency, Scalable Infra (Hybrid)

Quanvers; New Jersey; Hybrid; USD 180.000 - 260.000; Vollzeit

Benefits dieser Stelle

Competitive base salary

Equity

Hybrid remote options

Learning budget

Top-tier equipment and cloud access

Zusammenfassung

Quanvers is seeking an experienced Platform Engineer to design, build, and scale the infrastructure powering its quantitative trading platform. You will shape the architecture across research, backtesting, execution, and risk management, collaborating with researchers to translate needs into reliable software systems.

You will work on low-latency execution engines, real-time data pipelines, and distributed compute infrastructure, balancing rapid iteration with system resilience.

Qualifikationen

• 5+ years of professional software engineering experience building production systems.
• Expert-level Python and at least one of C++, Rust or Go.
• Strong understanding of distributed systems, concurrency and asynchronous programming.
• Experience designing low-latency, high-throughput systems.
• Deep knowledge of cloud infrastructure and IaC tools (Terraform, CloudFormation).
• Proficiency with Docker and Kubernetes and related tooling.

Aufgaben

• Design and implement low-latency execution engines for order routing and trade reconciliation.
• Build distributed data pipelines for ingesting and serving market data at scale.
• Develop and optimize backtesting infrastructure for rapid strategy evaluation.
• Create real-time monitoring and alerting systems for trading operations and infra health.
• Build APIs and tools to deploy strategies from research to production.
• Architect and maintain cloud infrastructure (AWS/GCP) including compute, storage, and networking.
• Implement CI/CD pipelines, automated testing, and deployment workflows.
• Optimize system performance (latency, throughput, resources).
• Ensure system reliability, disaster recovery, and security best practices.
• Mentor junior engineers and contribute to technical decision-making.

Kenntnisse

Python

C++

Rust

Go

Distributed systems

Cloud infrastructure

Tools

Docker

Kubernetes

Terraform

CloudFormation

PostgreSQL

Jobbeschreibung

Quanvers is seeking an experienced Platform Engineer to design, build, and scale the infrastructure powering its quantitative trading platform. You will shape the architecture across research, backtesting, execution, and risk management, collaborating with researchers to translate needs into reliable software systems.

You will work on low-latency execution engines, real-time data pipelines, and distributed compute infrastructure, balancing rapid iteration with system resilience.