Technical Manager, Software Platform

Voleon; Berkeley (CA); Hybrid; USD 150,000 - 210,000; Full time

Job summary

Voleon is seeking a Technical Manager, Software Platform Engineering to lead an engineering team that builds and operates the foundational services powering the firm’s research and trading systems.

The role focuses on developer experience—build systems, CI/CD, tooling, and deployment automation—with opportunities to expand into cloud platform services as the team evolves. Remote work is supported.

Qualifications

• Requires a Computer Science degree or equivalent practical experience.
• Demonstrated leadership experience managing engineering teams or managers.
• Strong programming skills in Python, Go, or C++.
• Experience building developer platforms, cloud infrastructure, or internal platform services.
• Proven ability to grow and mentor engineers.
• Excellent communication and cross-team collaboration abilities.

Responsibilities

• Manage, grow, and hire for a team of platform and infrastructure engineers — and mentor ICs to continuously raise the technical bar
• Be hands-on technically — dig into code, debug systems, and work alongside the team to solve hard problems
• Own the roadmap for your domain, define ambitious goals, and reliably deliver against them
• Build and operate the systems that power the software development lifecycle — build systems, CI/CD, developer tooling, deployment automation — with high reliability, observability, and performance
• Improve engineering and researcher productivity by building well-designed platform abstractions, standardizing workflows, and reducing infrastructure friction
• Partner across infrastructure, security, research, and engineering to ensure seamless integration
• As the team grows, potentially expand scope into cloud platform services — including workload routing, resource optimization, and cost governance

Skills

Python

Go

C++

Engineering leadership

Dev platform experience

Education

CS degree or equivalent

Tools

Bazel

CI/CD tooling

Cloud platforms

Job description

Employment Type

Full time

Location Type

Remote

Department

Software

Compensation

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.

As Technical Manager, Software Platform Engineering, you will lead an engineering team within the Software Platform organization, which builds and operates the foundational services that power the firm's research and trading systems. The Software Platform organization owns the firm's HPC compute cluster, cloud environments, developer experience tooling, data platform, and operational data systems. The organization is growing, and we are looking for someone excited to be part of a platform team with a broad mandate. Your initial focus will be on developer experience — the build systems, CI/CD infrastructure, developer tooling, and deployment automation that enable engineers to build, test, deploy, and maintain software across the company — with the opportunity to expand into cloud platform services as the team evolves, including intelligent workload placement and routing, cloud resource optimization, cost governance, and operational reliability for research workloads.

Your team will deliver highly reliable, performant platforms with high availability, strong observability, and consistent performance. You will improve engineering velocity and researcher productivity by reducing friction, standardizing workflows, and modernizing tooling. You will own the roadmap for your domain, grow and scale the team, and collaborate with peers across engineering, infrastructure, research, and security to balance competing priorities and make thoughtful tradeoffs.

Responsibilities

Manage, grow, and hire for a team of platform and infrastructure engineers — and mentor ICs to continuously raise the technical bar

Be hands-on technically — dig into code, debug systems, and work alongside the team to solve hard problems

Own the roadmap for your domain, define ambitious goals, and reliably deliver against them

Build and operate the systems that power the software development lifecycle — build systems, CI/CD, developer tooling, deployment automation — with high reliability, observability, and performance

Improve engineering and researcher productivity by building well-designed platform abstractions, standardizing workflows, and reducing infrastructure friction

Partner across infrastructure, security, research, and engineering to ensure seamless integration

As the team grows, potentially expand scope into cloud platform services — including workload routing, resource optimization, and cost governance

Requirements

Computer Science degree or equivalent practical experience

2+ years of engineering management experience

8+ years of professional software engineering experience

Demonstrated experience managing and mentoring engineering teams

Proven ability to attract, hire, and retain exceptional engineering talent

Strong programming experience in Python, Go, C++, or similar

Experience building or operating developer platforms, cloud infrastructure, or internal platform services — ideally with exposure to both on-prem and cloud environments

Experience operating critical systems with high reliability requirements

Knowledge of best practices for scalable system design and operational excellence

Ability to dive deep technically while maintaining a strategic view of platform architecture

Strong communication and collaboration skills across engineering and research organizations

Preferred Qualifications

Experience with cloud infrastructure (AWS, GCP, or similar) alongside on-prem systems

Experience with large monorepos, Bazel or similar build systems

Experience improving developer productivity at scale

Experience with CI/CD systems or internal platform engineering

Experience optimizing cloud resource usage or managing cloud cost efficiency at scale

Experience leading teams through cloud adoption or infrastructure modernization

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.