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Agent guide: [/agents.md](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/agents.md). --- # Application Support Engineer - **Company:** AQR Capital Management - **Location:** Stamford, CT, United States - **Experience:** Experienced - **Salary:** $110,000.0 - $140,000.0 - **Contract:** Permanent contract - **Skills:** Computer Programming, Databases, Database Analysis, Software Debugging, Monitoring of Systems, Python (Programming Language), Log Analysis, SQL Databases, Reliability of Systems, Information Technology - **Published:** June 18, 2026 - **Apply:** https://diversityjobs.com/career/17282861/Application-Support-Engineer-Connecticut-Greenwich ## About the Role * Bachelor's Degree - Engineering or Computer Science preferred - or equivalent experience. * Two years' experience working with both business user and technical teams supporting complex software systems in the financial industry. * Hands-on technical abilities including SQL and programming/debugging - Python preferred. * Strong technical communications abilities - both written and verbal. * Ability to work effectively both independently and in a small team environment. * A passion for learning technology and using it to automate manual work and improve system reliability. * Cool under pressure and always responsible, mature, and trustworthy. ## Description We are seeking an Application Support Engineer who will work at the boundary of the technical systems and processes that drive our investment business. This is an individual contributor role where you will work on a dynamic team to support a sophisticated technical process and user-base, resolve production problems as they arise, and contribute to strategic projects that improve our organization. You will learn a cutting-edge cloud-deployed quantitative portfolio management and research system. You will work closely with both the business and other technical teams. We are seeking someone who is passionate about technology and systems reliability, who is looking for an opportunity to grow into a systems reliability engineer. In this role. You will: * Develop and maintain in-depth knowledge of AQR's Applications products to support customers. * Manage users' expectations to ensure satisfaction with AQR and our products * Ensure that every user is treated professionally and with respect * Act as a user advocate to Project Management and Development * Effectively interact with Quality Assurance to report bugs identified by customers. * Ensure proper escalation occurs for unresolved issues to ensure the customer remains satisfied * Gain and maintain current knowledge of AQRs Support Policies and Procedures * Participate in on-call production support rotations - some of which may be off hours. * Identify/update missing prod-support processes and author new processes with the assistance of dev/business-teams using a support wikis. * Diagnose missing-inputs issues. This may require analyzing stack-traces, system-logs, stepping through code in a debugger etc. to find the offending query/web-service call. * Diagnose resource issues (e.g., database down/slow, etc.). This would require learning our deployment architecture, alerting/monitoring tools, etc. * Diagnose complex system issues and work across teams to solve them quickly. * Reason through technical issues using an array of technical skills including log analysis, systems performance analysis, stack-trace diagnosis, database analysis, reproduction of problems, and software debugging. * Manage communication with stakeholders and across teams. * Contribute to our systems and process documentation. * Understand and document root-causes of problems and collaborate across teams to deliver improvements. * Work on strategic projects to improve our over process and system reliability. ## Related Videos - [Fault Tolerance and Consistency at Scale: Harnessing the Power of Distributed SQL Databases](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/1146-fault-tolerance-and-consistency-at-scale-harnessing-the-power-of-distributed-sql-databases) - [Kubernetes and Microservices with Multi-Model Databases](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/382-kubernetes-and-microservices-with-multi-model-databases) - [Progressive Delivery in Kubernetes](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/949-progressive-delivery-in-kubernetes) - [Microservices architecture as a key element in building trading systems for global finance markets](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/1196-microservices-architecture-as-a-key-element-in-building-trading-systems-for-global-finance-markets) - [Fault Tolerance and Consistency at Scale: Harnessing the Power of Distributed SQL Databases](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/1520-fault-tolerance-and-consistency-at-scale-harnessing-the-power-of-distributed-sql-databases) - [TiDB, One Layer at a Time: How Distributed SQL Became an Agentic AI Backbone](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/100117-tidb-one-layer-at-a-time-how-distributed-sql-became-an-agentic-ai-backbone) ## Related Articles - [The 12 Best Jobs for Software Engineers](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/magazine/401-the-12-best-jobs-for-software-engineers) - [How to Become an AI Engineer](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/magazine/331-how-to-become-an-ai-engineer) - [The Most Popular IT Jobs on the Market](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/magazine/376-the-most-popular-it-jobs-on-the-market) - [How to Answer the Interview Question: “Why Do You Want to Be a Software Engineer?”](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/magazine/392-how-to-answer-the-interview-question-why-do-you-want-to-be-a-software-engineer) - [Quick guide: How to write a Software Developer CV](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/magazine/37-quick-guide-how-to-write-a-software-developer-cv) - [Where To Find Software Engineering Jobs](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/magazine/396-where-to-find-software-engineering-jobs)