Staff Software Engineer — Batch & Real-Time Streaming Platform

The Voleon Group; Berkeley (CA); On-site; USD 315,000 - 405,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Daily catered lunches

Modern office

Competitive compensation

Job summary

The Voleon Group in Berkeley is seeking a Senior Software Engineer to architect, develop, and maintain a Batch and Realtime Streaming platform that powers our ML research and production trading systems. You will collaborate with researchers and finance professionals to build high-performance interfaces, APIs, and tools enabling feature discovery, access, and management.

The role emphasizes data quality, scalability, and governance, with opportunities to mentor peers and influence engineering

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field (or equivalent experience)
• 10+ years of software engineering experience, with a strong background in distributed computing and data infrastructure
• Experience in programming languages such as Python and Go
• Understanding of database technologies (Postgres, MySQL, Cassandra, DuckDB) and experience with APIs (REST/gRPC)
• Strong problem-solving skills, with a focus on delivering high-quality, maintainable, and well-documented solutions
• Excellent communication and collaboration skills; ability to work closely with both engineering and research teams

Responsibilities

• Architect, design, and implement core components for a Batch and Realtime Streaming platform, including data ingestion pipelines, storage systems, serving layers, and API interfaces
• Ship new features by collaborating across research, legal, trading finance operations data, and infra teams for trading systems
• Collaborate with ML researchers and data scientists to understand their workflows and design intuitive interfaces (APIs, SDKs, UIs) for seamless feature discovery, access, and reuse
• Ensure data quality, consistency, and lineage for features, building robust mechanisms for versioning, monitoring, and governance
• Optimize data pipelines and storage for high performance, scalability, and reliability, considering both batch and real-time use cases
• Drive adoption of the feature store across teams by producing documentation, onboarding materials, and developer support
• Mentor junior engineers and contribute to team best practices and technical excellence

Skills

Python

Go

Distributed computing

REST/gRPC

Postgres

Cassandra

DuckDB

Data pipelines

Education

CS degree

Tools

Airflow

Spark

Ray

Iceberg

Prometheus

Grafana

ELK Stack

Job description

The Voleon Group in Berkeley is seeking a Senior Software Engineer to architect, develop, and maintain a Batch and Realtime Streaming platform that powers our ML research and production trading systems. You will collaborate with researchers and finance professionals to build high-performance interfaces, APIs, and tools enabling feature discovery, access, and management.

The role emphasizes data quality, scalability, and governance, with opportunities to mentor peers and influence engineering