Principal Software Engineer - Compute Platform

You’ll be responsible for shaping how compute is provisioned, scaled, and optimized across thousands of research and production workloads - directly impacting researcher velocity, system reliability, and capital efficiency. It’s a deep systems + platform engineering position for someone who enjoys solving hard problems at scale., * Architect and evolve a high-performance compute platform supporting large-scale research, simulation, and production workloads

• Design systems for job scheduling, resource allocation, workload isolation, and cost/performance optimization
• Partner closely with quant researchers and engineers to understand compute needs and remove infrastructure bottlenecks
• Lead complex initiatives in AWS
• Set technical direction, raise engineering standards, and mentor senior engineers
• Own reliability, scalability, and observability of core compute services

• Strong background in systems, infrastructure, or platform engineering
• Strong development experience with languages such as Python, Java, Golang etc
• Hands-on experience with Kubernetes / container orchestration or custom schedulers,
• Experience with cloud platforms (AWS/GCP/Azure) and/or large on-prem clusters
• Experience with infrastructure automation (Terraform, internal tooling, CI/CD)
• Comfortable operating at Principal / Staff level - driving architecture.
• Strong communication skills and ability to work with highly technical stakeholders, * Enjoys owning foundational systems
• Thinks deeply about compute efficiency and scale
• Wants to operate at the intersection of engineering, research, and real-world impact