Senior Platform Engineer, Strategy & Data Infrastructure

The Voleon Group; Berkeley (CA); On-site; USD 120,000 - 150,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Referral bonus program

Job summary

The Voleon Group located in Berkeley, California is looking for an experienced platform engineer to design, build, and operate significant components of their trading infrastructure. Candidates should have over 5 years in backend and data pipeline engineering with strong debugging skills. Familiarity with tools like Airflow, Spark, and Python fluency are preferred. The role offers the chance to influence systems that support a robust quantitative trading platform.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of experience in backend, data pipelines, or platform engineering.
• Experience with ownership of platform systems and real decomposition decisions.
• Strong debugging and observability instincts.

Responsibilities

• Own data access, validation, orchestration, and cataloging processes.
• Engineer deployment processes for research experiments into production.
• Develop tooling for data integration from diverse vendors.

Skills

Backend engineering

Data pipelines

Platform engineering

Strong debugging skills

Python fluency

Education

Computer Science Degree or equivalent experience

Tools

Airflow

Spark

Trino

Job description

The Voleon Group located in Berkeley, California is looking for an experienced platform engineer to design, build, and operate significant components of their trading infrastructure. Candidates should have over 5 years in backend and data pipeline engineering with strong debugging skills. Familiarity with tools like Airflow, Spark, and Python fluency are preferred. The role offers the chance to influence systems that support a robust quantitative trading platform.