Platform Engineer — Production Deployments & Observability

Aquatic Group; Chicago, Northern (IL, KY); Hybrid; USD 150,000 - 300,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical coverage

Dental coverage

Vision coverage

401k plan

Life & disability insurance

Wellness programs

Casual dress

Snacks & lunch

Game room

Team events

Job summary

Aquatic Group in Chicago seeks a Software Engineer to join the Engineering team. You will own deployment, build, and observability systems that support research and trading operations, delivering reliable production-ready tooling and automation.

Collaborate with researchers and engineers across Research, Execution, and Trading Operations to reduce toil and improve platform reliability, latency, and correctness in live markets.

Qualifications

• BS/MS in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related technical field, or equivalent practical experience.
• 4+ years of professional software development experience.
• Strong Python and familiarity with Java and C++ and a track record of building production-grade systems.
• Experience building and operating distributed systems, deployment pipelines, or internal developer platforms.
• Familiarity with CI/CD, configuration generation and management, workload orchestration (Nomad, Kubernetes, or similar), and production debugging.
• Comfortable operating in production environments where uptime, latency, and correctness are of highest importance.
• Helpful but not required: exposure to trading systems, market data, or model lifecycle management in production.

Responsibilities

• Own deployment, build, and observability systems the firm relies on for live markets.
• Own build pinning, approval, promotion workflows, and rollback paths for production deployments.
• Extend deployment orchestration and scheduling across regions as new markets are entered.
• Build observability into deployments and production services to show what is running, what changed, and what broke.
• Partner with Research and Trading Operations to automate manual processes and reduce toil.
• Improve reliability and operability of production systems, including alerting and failure handling.
• Set and uphold engineering standards for the platform, writing clean, tested Python with good documentation.

Skills

Python

Java

C++

Distributed systems

CI/CD

Deployment pipelines

Education

BS/MS in CS/Engineering or related field

Tools

Nomad

Kubernetes

CI/CD tooling

Job description

Aquatic Group in Chicago seeks a Software Engineer to join the Engineering team. You will own deployment, build, and observability systems that support research and trading operations, delivering reliable production-ready tooling and automation.

Collaborate with researchers and engineers across Research, Execution, and Trading Operations to reduce toil and improve platform reliability, latency, and correctness in live markets.