Platform Engineering Manager - Developer Experience

Voleon; Berkeley (CA); Hybrid; USD 150,000 - 210,000; Full time

Job summary

Voleon is seeking a Technical Manager, Software Platform Engineering to lead an engineering team that builds and operates the foundational services powering the firm’s research and trading systems.

The role focuses on developer experience—build systems, CI/CD, tooling, and deployment automation—with opportunities to expand into cloud platform services as the team evolves. Remote work is supported.

Qualifications

• Requires a Computer Science degree or equivalent practical experience.
• Demonstrated leadership experience managing engineering teams or managers.
• Strong programming skills in Python, Go, or C++.
• Experience building developer platforms, cloud infrastructure, or internal platform services.
• Proven ability to grow and mentor engineers.
• Excellent communication and cross-team collaboration abilities.

Responsibilities

• Manage, grow, and hire for a team of platform and infrastructure engineers — and mentor ICs to continuously raise the technical bar
• Be hands-on technically — dig into code, debug systems, and work alongside the team to solve hard problems
• Own the roadmap for your domain, define ambitious goals, and reliably deliver against them
• Build and operate the systems that power the software development lifecycle — build systems, CI/CD, developer tooling, deployment automation — with high reliability, observability, and performance
• Improve engineering and researcher productivity by building well-designed platform abstractions, standardizing workflows, and reducing infrastructure friction
• Partner across infrastructure, security, research, and engineering to ensure seamless integration
• As the team grows, potentially expand scope into cloud platform services — including workload routing, resource optimization, and cost governance

Skills

Python

Go

C++

Engineering leadership

Dev platform experience

Education

CS degree or equivalent

Tools

Bazel

CI/CD tooling

Cloud platforms

Job description

Voleon is seeking a Technical Manager, Software Platform Engineering to lead an engineering team that builds and operates the foundational services powering the firm’s research and trading systems.

The role focuses on developer experience—build systems, CI/CD, tooling, and deployment automation—with opportunities to expand into cloud platform services as the team evolves. Remote work is supported.