Staff Software Engineer, Platform Team

The Voleon Group; United States; Remote; USD 180,000 - 240,000; Full time

Job summary

The Voleon Group is seeking a Senior Software Engineer to design and evolve distributed systems powering research and trading workflows. You will work across on-premises and cloud environments, building core services, storage interfaces, and orchestration mechanisms that drive reliability and performance.

You will collaborate with Infrastructure, Security, and ML research teams to deliver foundational platform capabilities, emphasizing robust design, ownership, and measurable impact on

Qualifications

• CS/engineering degree or equivalent experience.
• 8+ years of software engineering experience.
• Track record in designing robust, scalable software.
• Proficiency in Python/Go/Java/C++ and Linux environments.
• Experience with distributed systems and data storage.

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.
• Guide requirements gathering and translate into software design.
• Provide technical guidance to engineering and research staff.
• Mentor and grow individual contributors to uplift the team.

Skills

8+ years software engineering

Distributed systems design

Linux/UNIX development

Programming in Python/Go/Java/C++

Strong communication

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related field

Tools

PostgreSQL

Redis

Ceph

Airflow

Slurm

Cloud platforms (AWS / GCP / Azure)

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 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++

• 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)

• 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

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.