Senior Software Engineer, DevOps

Company: The Voleon Group
Location: Berkeley
Posted on: January 8, 2022

Job Description:

Voleon is a technology company that applies state-of-the-art machine learning techniques to real-world problems in finance. For more than a decade, we have led our industry and worked at the frontier of applying machine learning to investment management. We have become a multibillion dollar asset manager, and we have ambitious goals for the future. Your colleagues will include internationally recognized experts in machine learning research as well as highly experienced technology and finance professionals. The people who shape our company come from other backgrounds, too, including concert music performance, humanitarian aid, opera singing, sports writing, and BMX racing. You will be part of a team that loves to succeed together. In addition to our enriching and collegial working environment, we offer highly competitive compensation and benefits packages, technology talks by our experts, a beautiful modern office, daily catered lunches, and more. As a Senior Software Engineer, you will work with the software engineering, research, and systems teams to build the backbone of our business. This role is a means to make a difference: your role will serve as a force multiplier to maximize the productivity of the personnel, tools, and workflows that deliver software at Voleon. Responsibilities

• Support Voleon's build processes and continuous delivery tools, manage software development tools, and automate systems and operations
• Work with stakeholders and product teams to create robust, high-performance software and systems architectures
• Establish and promote best practices for software development and testing
• Design and support implementations of production infrastructure and applications Requirements
  • At least five years of experience with software development, production application support, and/or Linux systems administration
  • Experience implementing and supporting continuous Integration platforms such as Jenkins, TeamCity, CircleCI, or Bamboo
  • Experience with automated software testing practices and tools
  • Fluent with Python and Git
  • Extensive experience with common virtualization and containerization tools such as KVM, Docker, and Kubernetes
  • Experience with configuration automation tools, such as Ansible, Chef, and Puppet
  • Strong background in Linux/Unix administration
  • Bachelor's degree in computer science or a related technical field
  • Familiar with Agile project management concepts
  • Ability to initiate and lead cross-team technical projects Preferred Qualifications
    • Knowledge of other software languages such as Groovy, R, and Go
    • Experience configuring and using the ELK stack -
    • Experience with systems/network monitoring tools such as Nagios, Icinga, Zabbix, Prometheus, Grafana, and Graphite
    • Experience with the Bazel build system
    • Understanding of relational databases (primarily PostgreSQL) and NoSQL data management tools
    • Eagerness to work with diverse teams "Friends of Voleon" Candidate Referral Program If you have a great candidate in mind for this role and would like to have the potential to earn $7,500 if your referred candidate is successfully hired and employed by The Voleon Group, please use this - form -to submit your referral. For more details regarding eligibility, terms and conditions please make sure to review the - Voleon Referral Bonus Program . 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.

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