Senior Engineer II, Platform, Identity & Operations

Acadian Asset Management; Boston (MA); Hybrid; USD 180,000 - 200,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Flexible hybrid work environment

Comprehensive benefits program

Health and retirement offerings

Job summary

Acadian Asset Management is hiring a Platform Engineer to build and maintain its Identity and Configuration Platform. This hands-on role involves developing APIs and services to enhance system accessibility across cloud and on-site environments. A successful candidate will have backend engineering experience, preferably in Go, Python, or TypeScript, along with familiarity in AWS and Kubernetes. The position offers a flexible hybrid work model based in Boston and a competitive salary range of $180,000 to $200,000, plus benefits.

Qualifications

• 3 years related software engineering experience, or 7 years without degree.
• Financial services exposure is a plus.
• Hands-on experience with AWS and cloud-native architecture.

Responsibilities

• Build and maintain APIs and services.
• Improve user experience for all firm users.
• Participate in on-call rotation for platform services.
• Mentor peers and elevate engineering standards.

Skills

Backend engineering experience

Go

Python

TypeScript

Linux-based systems

Terraform

AWS

Kubernetes

OAuth2

Identity providers

Education

BS in Computer Science or related field

7 years experience without BS degree

Job description

Acadian Asset Management is a global, systematic investment manager at the forefront of data‑driven investing since 1986. Headquartered in Boston, with locations in Singapore, London, and Sydney, we manage over $170 billion on behalf of leading institutions worldwide—including pension funds, endowments, foundations, and sovereign wealth funds. We harness advanced technology, rich datasets, and multidisciplinary expertise to help clients navigate complex markets and uncover insights that may be overlooked by traditional approaches.

What sets Acadian apart is our people. We foster a collaborative, intellectually curious environment where ideas are tested, diverse perspectives are welcomed, and innovation thrives. We’re united by a shared purpose: delivering effective client outcomes and supporting one another in work that’s both challenging and rewarding. We offer a flexible hybrid work environment, strong benefits, and a casual but focused office culture—all designed to support the meaningful, collaborative work that defines Acadian.

Position Overview

This role is responsible for building and evolving Acadian’s Identity and Configuration Platform. A core team which enables secure, scalable and seamless access to systems, across both cloud and on‑prem environments. You will develop APIs, services and tooling to standardize identity, configuration and operational patterns across the firm. The goal is to make secure access simple, consistent and durable for every team at the firm, directly or indirectly.

This is a hands‑on platform engineering role that blends software development, architecture and SRE operations. You will be expected to design, build, support and operate critical infrastructure, build in security by default, making it easy to consume patterns and services. This could range from enterprise identity management to production level SSO, DNS, Certificate services and Secrets Management, EKS and more. You will act in a building and advisory capacity with deep technical knowledge.

Acadian supports a hybrid work environment; employees are on‑site in the Boston office 3 days a week.

What You’ll Do

• Build and maintain APIs, services, libraries and patterns to standardize services we own across the stack.
• Develop reusable platform capabilities to reduce duplication and eliminate one‑off solutions across teams.
• Improve the daily experience of all users at the firm within our domain.
• Partner with engineering teams to integrate platform services into their applications and workflows.
• Operate and support critical platform services, including participation in an on‑call rotation.
• Automate operational workflows to improve reliability, observability and incident response.
• Contribute to architectural direction and continuously improve the firm’s identity and access strategy.
• Mentor peers and help raise the engineering bar across the organization.
• Team operates in pair programming sessions for better than 90% of the working day.

We’re Looking For Teammates With

• BS in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Electronic Engineering, Information Technology, or a directly related field plus 3 years of related software engineering experience. (7 years of experience without BS degree).
• At least 2 years of prior experience; financial services exposure is a plus.
• Strong backend engineering experience in one or more of: Go, Python or TypeScript.
• Comfortable working across Linux‑based systems and scripting (e.g., Bash, PowerShell).
• Experience with Infrastructure as Code (Terraform preferred).
• Experience building APIs, services or shared platform components used by other engineers.
• Solid understanding of software design principles, including modularity, testability and maintainability.
• Hands‑on experience with AWS and cloud‑native architecture.
• Familiarity with Kubernetes (EKS preferred) and containerized systems.
• Understanding of authentication and authorization concepts (OAuth2, OIDC, SAML, tokens) (preferred).
• Experience with identity providers (e.g., Okta, Entra ID) (preferred).
• Claude, ChatGPT, Cursor and other AI model experience a plus.

The base salary range for this role is $180,000 – $200,000 per year. Actual compensation will be determined based on a candidate’s skills, qualifications, and relevant experience. In addition to base pay, this position may be eligible for discretionary incentive compensation and includes participation in Acadian’s comprehensive benefits program, which includes health, retirement and wellness offerings.

To apply for this position or view Acadian’s open roles, please visit the Careers section of our website at: http://www.acadian-asset.com/careers/Job-opportunities. We will contact only selected candidates. If you are a candidate with a disability, or are assisting a candidate with a disability, and require an accommodation to apply for one of our jobs, please email us at [e-mail].

Acadian Asset Management LLC is committed to providing equal employment opportunity to all employees and applicants. No employee or applicant shall be discriminated against on the basis of gender, race, creed, color, sex, age, national origin, marital status, pregnancy or parenthood, veteran status, citizenship status, disability, gender identity or sexual orientation.