Staff Software Engineer, Platform Team

Voleon; Berkeley (CA); On-site; USD 325,000 - 410,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health insurance

Dental, vision coverage

401(k) with company match

20 days PTO

Daily catered lunches

Job summary

Voleon is seeking a Senior Software Engineer for the Software Platform team in Berkeley. You will design and evolve distributed systems powering research and trading workflows across on-premises and cloud environments, delivering reliable, scalable services and storage abstractions.

You will collaborate with Infrastructure, Security, and ML partners to raise reliability, performance, and productivity firm-wide.

Qualifications

• 8+ years of software engineering experience.
• Expertise in modern programming languages such as Python, Go, Java or C++.
• Design and implementation of scalable services and APIs, highly-available systems, and/or large-scale data infrastructure.
• Experience with data storage and management technologies (PostgreSQL, Artifactory, Ceph, Redis).
• Familiarity with job scheduling and orchestration technologies (Airflow, Slurm).
• Familiarity with cloud-based data storage, querying, and processing technologies.

Responsibilities

• Design and implement distributed scheduling and workflow systems.
• Improve job prioritization, resource allocation, and orchestration across hybrid environments.
• Build scalable, reliable platform services and storage abstractions.
• Lead complex projects from design through production delivery.
• Improve system reliability, observability, and operational performance.
• Provide technical leadership and mentorship across the team.
• Lead complex projects from start to finish with clear requirements and design.

Skills

Distributed systems

Python

Go

Java/C++

Communication

Education

CS/Engineering degree or equivalent

Tools

PostgreSQL

Redis

Ceph

Artifactory

Job description

• Base Salary $325K – $410K Offers Bonus

The listed base salary range for this position is based upon the location(s) of this posting. Individual salaries are determined through a variety of factors, including, but not limited to, education, experience, knowledge, skills, and geography. Base salary does not include other forms of total compensation such as bonus compensation and other benefits.

Our benefits package includes medical, dental, and vision coverage, life and AD&D insurance, 20 days of paid time off, 9 sick days, and a 401(k) plan with a company match.

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 Senior Software Engineer on the Software Platform team, you will design and evolve the distributed systems that power research and trading workflows across on-premises and cloud environments. The team owns core distributed services, cloud platforms, job scheduling and execution systems, and standardized storage interfaces — delivering reliable, scalable services that abstract away infrastructure complexity.

Operating at the heart of the firm’s platform, this is a high-impact area: the systems you build directly shape the reliability, performance, and scalability of research and production workloads across the organization.

You will partner closely with Infrastructure, Security, application engineering teams, and ML researchers to deliver foundational platform capabilities that improve reliability, performance, and productivity firm-wide — enabling engineers and researchers to focus on domain-specific innovation. This role operates at the platform services layer (not bare-metal infrastructure) and emphasizes distributed systems design, strong abstractions, and operational excellence.

We look for engineers who are motivated by solving complex problems through strong fundamentals and thoughtful system design. You’ll work in a highly collaborative environment that values experimentation, clear ownership, and efficient execution. Our team includes experienced engineers from leading technology companies and top academic programs, working closely with infrastructure specialists and machine learning researchers to build resilient, high-leverage systems that power the firm.

Responsibilities

Design and implement distributed scheduling and workflow systems

Improve job prioritization, resource allocation, and orchestration across hybrid environments

Build scalable, reliable platform services and storage abstractions

Lead complex projects from design through production delivery

Improve system reliability, observability, and operational performance

Provide technical leadership and mentorship across the team

Lead complex projects from start to finish, which includes gathering project requirements, translating them into a rational software design, reasoning effectively about supporting or dependent technologies, and communicating effectively with collaborators and teammates

Provide technical guidance to engineering and research staff

Mentor and grow individual contributors to continuously up-level the team

Requirements

Computer Science / Engineering degree, or equivalent experience

8+ years of software engineering experience

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

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

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)

Familiarity with job scheduling and orchestration technologies (e.g. Airflow, Slurm)

Familiarity with cloud-based data storage, querying, and processing technologies

Work with large codebases and experience building modular, extensible, and maintainable software

Strong communication skills and a proven ability to explain complex ideas with clarity and simplicity

“Friends of Voleon” Candidate Referral Program

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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.