Senior Engineer, High Performance Compute Engineering

Job Overview

This position will be a thought leader on architecture and development within the development team responsible for the compute platform for the Research group. As a systematic asset manager, Arrowstreet must identify investable trading strategies and implement them quickly and with the highest quality. Having a robust, scalable, and performant general compute platform is thus of critical importance

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The main responsibility of the role is developing the compute platform for HPC workloads in the cloud. A current focus is improving observability, so the ideal candidate has experience in designing and implementing large scale observability capabilities. The expectation of the role is to be hands-on, working across multiple teams to define requirements, create the design, develop, test, build, deploy and support the functionality. The work includes developing the automated build and deploy pipelines with unit and integrated tests to ensure high quality and efficient operation

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Responsibiliti

• es Work closely with members of the Research group to review and define requirements for the compute platform and observability syste
• ms.Provide expert level design that ensures the solution to be scalable, cost effective and to have low maintenan
• ce.Lead technical design discussions within the team to gather feedback, discuss the merits and risks of different approaches, and reach consensus on the target architectu
• re.Develop high quality solutions for the compute platform and observability systems in both on premise environments and AWS using Pyth
• on.Develop the automated build and deploy pipelines with unit and integrated tests to ensure high quality and efficient operatio
• ns.Provide guidance to other team members on development tas
• ks.Promote high quality code via code revie
• ws.Provide production support for the platform to prevent disruptions to investment process

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Qualificat

• ionsBachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering or a related discip
• line8 years of professional software development experience using Python or another object-oriented language, financial services exposure is a p
• lus.4 years of experience leading design or architecture of large-scale production sys
• tems3 years of experience developing large, high-performance, distributed syst
• ems.3 years of experience building high-performance cloud native solutions on public cloud (AWS prefer
• red)3 years of experience in container technologies like Kubernetes and Doc
• ker.3 years of experience in large scale observability systems like Elasticsearch and Promet
• heus2 years of experience in building resilient CI/CD pipelines, strong knowledge of Git, and familiarity with a DevOps platform like Git
• Lab.1 years of experience with Helm and Infrastructure as Code tools (Terraform prefer
• red)Strong in computer science fundamentals like data structures, algorithm design and complexity anal
• ysisAbility to write elegant code, and comfortable with picking up new technologies independen
• tly.Self-motivated and self-directed, ability to translate technical direction into functional soluti