Senior Software Engineer, Strategy Platform

Berkeley, CA · Remotefull timeRemote

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senior

$225k–$255k

H1B: no

Voleon The Senior Software Engineer at Voleon owns significant pieces of the Strategy Platform, designing, building, operating, and evolving systems that support ML-driven trading strategies. The role involves managing data access, validation, orchestration, and deployment processes across research and production.

Responsibilities

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

Qualification

5+ years of experience in backendComputer Science DegreeExperience with AirflowEqual Opportunity Employer

Required

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

Preferred

Experience with Airflow, Dagster, Spark, Iceberg, Trino, Flink, or similar data infrastructure
Familiarity with ML infrastructure patterns (feature stores, model serving, experiment tracking)
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Equal Opportunity Employer
The Voleon Group is an Equal Opportunity employer. Applicants are considered without regard to race, color, religion, creed, national origin, age, sex, gender, marital status, sexual orientation and identity, genetic information, veteran status, citizenship, or any other factors prohibited by local, state, or federal law.