Staff Software Engineer, Strategy Platform
The Voleon Group
Berkeley, United States of America
yesterday
Role details
Contract type
Permanent contract Employment type
Full-time (> 32 hours) Working hours
Regular working hours Languages
English Experience level
Senior Compensation
$ 300KJob location
Berkeley, United States of America
Tech stack
API
Airflow
Algorithmic Trading
Data Infrastructure
Data Security
Software Debugging
Python
Management of Software Versions
Spark
Backend
Information Technology
Apache Flink
Machine Learning Operations
Data Pipelines
Job description
You will own significant pieces of our platform end to end: designing, building, operating, and evolving them. Concretely:
- Own how data is accessed, validated, orchestrated, and catalogued across research and production
- Engineer smooth deployment processes for research experiments into production
- Develop tooling to integrate data from diverse vendors, unifying symbol mappings for data consistency
- Support data pipelines with strong temporal semantics under a range of latency and correctness requirements
- Sequence platform migrations that move the firm toward shared abstractions while minimizing disruption to active trading systems
- Lead complex projects spanning the company, collaborating across research, legal, trading, finance operations, data, and infrastructure teams
- Build tooling to support integration with new assets and markets
- Improve observability across the strategy lifecycle, including data cataloguing, experiment tracking, and production SLAs
Requirements
- 5+ years of experience in backend, data pipelines, or platform engineering
- Owned platform systems that other teams depend on daily, made real decomposition decisions (data access layers, API versioning, data models, migration sequencing), and improved those systems while they were actively in use
- Strong debugging and observability instincts. You orient quickly in unfamiliar codebases and datasets, particularly across data pipelines with many upstream sources and downstream consumers
- Computer Science Degree, or equivalent experience, * Experience with Airflow, Dagster, Spark, Iceberg, Trino, Flink, or similar data infrastructure
- Familiarity with ML infrastructure patterns (feature stores, model serving, experiment tracking)
- Python Fluency
Benefits & conditions
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About the company
Voleon is a quantitative hedge fund that uses machine learning as its core investment approach across a wide range of regions and asset classes. Voleon is a multibillion-dollar asset manager where the size of the engineering organization still allows for direct influence across key systems.
Strategy Platform owns the infrastructure between quantitative research and live trading. Our systems orchestrate the transformation of external market data into features consumed by ML-driven trading strategies, manage strategy deployments from research handoff through production, and provide the tooling that lets researchers iterate quickly without compromising production reliability.