Kubernetes Software Engineer

We tackle the most complex problems in quantitative finance, by bringing scientific clarity to financial complexity.

From our London HQ, we unite world-class researchers and engineers in an environment that values deep exploration and methodical execution - because the best ideas take time to evolve. Together we’re building a world-class platform to amplify our teams’ most powerful ideas.

As part of our engineering team, you’ll shape the platforms and tools that drive high-impact research - designing systems that scale, accelerate discovery and support innovation across the firm.

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The role

The Workspace Engineering team develops cutting-edge remote development capabilities. Hosted in Kubernetes, these solutions provide our engineers and quantitative researchers with reliable, repeatable and high-performance Linux environments.

The ideal candidate will be an enthusiastic developer with a keen interest in technologies such as Kubernetes and remote development workflows, a commitment to best practices and a drive for continuous self-learning.

We’re seeking someone with a broad technical skill set, who is adaptable and excited to work across a range of engineering challenges. You should be comfortable applying modern tools and approaches to solve complex problems and eager to contribute to a fast-paced, evolving environment., * Building stable and well-designed solutions which make it easy for customers to use our developer environments

• Understanding what makes a great end user experience for our customers and building towards that
• Recommending and implementing continuous improvements to platform and delivery pipelines
• Understanding our platforms security requirements, and designing and building features and capabilities to protect our developer environment
• Being a product evangelist, liaising with users to gather feedback and understand their workflows, providing support and working on feature requests

The ideal candidate will have the following skills and experience:

• A strong desire to learn and grow, and a track record of solving challenges in unfamiliar areas
• Extensive experience working with Linux
• Experience with Kubernetes administration in production-grade environments, including maintaining Kubernetes clusters and managing operators/CRDs
• A firm understanding of Kubernetes concepts such as containers/resources, RBAC and networking,
• Familiarity with automation through scripting, for example with Bash or Python
• Familiarity with development practices, such as source code management and binary/dependency management using tools such as Git, GitHub and Artifactory
• Proficiency with CI/CD pipelines and DevOps tooling across the full development lifecycle, using tools such as Jenkins, Bamboo or ArgoCD, and applying these to GitOps workflows and infrastructure-as-code environments
• The ideal candidate would also have at least one of the following:
• In-depth experience with GO development, including designing, building, debugging and optimising GO applications
• Building or maintaining other remote development environments, such as Coder, GitHub Codespaces or Gitpod
• Building or maintaining Linux kernel drivers and components
• Use of telemetry tools and practices within a Kubernetes context, including monitoring, tracing and logging with systems such as Prometheus, Jaeger and Grafana
• Working knowledge of container runtimes, in particular CRI-O, and cloud native networking, in particular Cilium
• Familiarity working with and integrating virtualised desktop technologies, such as Citrix or VMWare
• Experience communicating strategy and socialising change to a wide and disparate audience

• Highly competitive compensation plus annual discretionary bonus
• Lunch provided (via Just Eat for Business) and dedicated barista bar
• 30 days’ annual leave
• 9% company pension contributions
• Informal dress code and excellent work/life balance
• Comprehensive healthcare and life assurance
• Cycle-to-work scheme
• Monthly company events