Staff Software Engineer, Data Infrastructure

The Voleon Group; United States; Remote; USD 160,000 - 260,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive compensation package

Daily catered lunches (office)

Beautiful modern office

Job summary

The Voleon Group, a technology-driven asset manager, is seeking a Staff Software Engineer for the Data Infrastructure team. You will contribute to scaling data infrastructure and build data-related tooling, collaborating with researchers and engineers.

You will help define the team's roadmap, mentor colleagues, and deliver large-scale projects. The role emphasizes rigorous engineering, performance, and reliability in a fast-paced, collaborative environment.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or Engineering.
• 8+ years of software engineering experience.
• Strong design and implementation skills focused on correctness, robustness, efficiency, and scale.
• Experience with large codebases and modular, maintainable software.
• Proficient in Python, Go, Java or C++.
• Hands-on Linux/UNIX development experience.
• Experience designing scalable services and data infrastructure.
• Experience with data storage technologies such as PostgreSQL, Redis, Ceph.

Responsibilities

• Lead complex initiatives from requirements gathering to deployment with good judgment of dependencies.
• Build scalable data infrastructure and improve developer experience, including data cataloging, versioning, and lineage.
• Provide technical guidance to engineering and research staff to foster growth.

Skills

Python

Go

Java

C++

Linux/UNIX

Data infrastructure

APIs

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related field

Tools

PostgreSQL

Redis

Ceph

Artifactory

Job description

Voleon is a technology company that applies state-of-the-art AI and machine learning techniques to real-world problems in finance. For nearly two decades, we have led our industry and worked at the frontier of applying AI/ML to investment management. We have become a multibillion-dollar asset manager, and we have ambitious goals for the future.

Your colleagues will include internationally recognized experts in artificial intelligence and machine learning research as well as highly experienced finance and technology professionals. In addition to our enriching and collegial working environment, we offer highly competitive compensation and benefits packages, technology talks by our experts, a beautiful modern office, daily catered lunches, and more.

Your Team

As a Staff Software Engineer on our Data Infrastructure team, you will contribute to scaling and advancing our entire data infrastructure. This includes building data-related infrastructure and tooling, and collaborating closely with various teams to facilitate and improve their usage of data. You will work with our team lead to design, scope, and deliver large scale projects within the team. You will collaborate closely with a diverse group of engineers, and directly impact the team’s productivity and successful delivery. You will help to define the team’s technical roadmap towards achieving strategic-level engineering goals. You’ll participate in mentorship and development of other engineers on the team, and shaping our company’s engineering culture.

We seek brilliant thinkers who are passionate about taming complexity and solving problems through innovation and rigorous engineering. You’ll work in a collaborative environment that encourages creative thinking and experimentation, and values efficiency and attention to detail. Our engineers come from leading technology companies and top academic programs. Our team partners closely with machine learning researchers. We pride ourselves on being kind, friendly, and down-to-earth, and look for people who share those qualities.

Responsibilities

• Guide complex initiatives from initial requirements gathering and robust system design to deployment, effectively evaluating dependent technologies and collaborating closely with stakeholders

• Build scalable data infrastructure and shape the developer experience, tackling projects such as owning data cataloging, versioning, and lineage to support seamless research and production workflows

• Provide technical guidance to both engineering and research staff, fostering a supportive environment that accelerates the growth of your teammates

Requirements

• Computer Science / Engineering bachelor’s degree (or equivalent)

• 8+ years of relevant software engineering experience

• Proven track record of software design and implementation with focus on correctness, robustness, efficiency, and scale

• Experience working with large codebases and building modular, extensible, and maintainable software

• Expertise in a modern programming language, such as Python, Go, Java or C++

• Hands-on experience developing in a Linux/UNIX environment

• Design and implementation of scalable services and APIs, highly-available systems, and/or large-scale data infrastructure

• Experience with data storage and management technologies (e.g. PostgreSQL, Artifactory, Ceph, Redis)

• Strong communication skills and a knack for explaining complex ideas with clarity and simplicity

Preferred Qualifications

• Familiarity with the following strongly preferred:

• Experience building data platforms with a developer experience lens — designing APIs, access patterns, or tooling that abstracts infrastructure complexity from end users

• Job scheduling and orchestration technologies (e.g. Airflow, Slurm)

“Friends of Voleon” Candidate Referral Program

Equal Opportunity Employer

The Voleon Group is an Equal Opportunity employer. Applicants are considered without regard to race, color, religion, creed, national origin, age, sex, gender, marital status, sexual orientation and identity, genetic information, veteran status, citizenship, or any other factors prohibited by local, state, or federal law.