Core Software Engineer, Reliability

About the Job

The team that owns the foundational infrastructure of one of the world's leading hedge funds is hiring. Core Engineering builds the platform every business at the firm runs on, from compute and storage to databases and security, and the same platform runs the infrastructure for its market-making arm. Engineering decisions move straight into production, with little bureaucracy between a good idea and a live system. You'd join a small, senior team with real influence over architecture.

The Role

This is a software engineering position. You write code every day, and you build and own production systems instead of operating them. You own projects from design through production, with decisions made by the engineers closest to the problem. You'd join Core Engineering, the group that keeps the firm's foundational platform fast and reliable by building software, not by running it.

• Design, build and ship software that makes the firm's compute, storage and database systems more reliable and faster
• Write the observability and automation tooling that removes operational toil
• Contribute to architectural decisions on reliability and performance for a platform that serves every business across the firm and its market-making arm
• Work directly with engineers across eight sub-teams including Networking, Database, Kafka Platform, Security, and AI Platform.
• Support the systems you build through the on-call rotation

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field
• 5+ years as a software engineer, with a focus on reliability or infrastructure
• Strong programming skills - Python is the primary language for this role and ideally your strongest, though strong engineers in Go, Java, or C++ are also considered
• Genuine depth in at least one of: distributed systems, storage or database reliability, compute platforms, or observability infrastructure
• Experience with configuration management and automation - Ansible or equivalent
• Comfort with Linux at the system level
• Builder mentality with strong systems thinking - someone who solves problems by writing code and thinks carefully about how the pieces fit together
• Finance experience is not required

Preferred Skills (not required)

• A track record of real, quantified impact, with measurable results you can point to (latency, cost, reliability or scale)
• Clear progression, with promotions or growing scope at a big tech company or a startup that scaled
• Observability tooling, such as Grafana or Prometheus
• Configuration management and automation, such as Ansible or equivalent
• Database reliability engineering, such as Postgres, MySQL or similar
• Open-source contributions to infrastructure or observability tooling

Benefits

• Total compensation of $500,000 to $800,000, depending on experience and the impact you've delivered.
• Best-in-class medical, dental and vision coverage
• 401(k) with employer match
• 24/7 concierge healthcare with dedicated support for you and your dependents
• Generous vacation and paid holidays
• Paid parental leave plus fertility and adoption support
• Catered breakfast, lunch, and dinner daily
• No-cost mental health coaching and therapy
• Monthly fitness and wellness benefits

Pre-Application:

• Please do not apply if you are looking for a contract or remote work
• You must be eligible to live and work in the US, without requiring sponsorship
• Please ensure you meet the required experience section prior to applying
• Allow 1-5 working days for a response to any job enquiry

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