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Build and Release Engineer

WorldQuant
Austin, TX Full Time
POSTED ON 1/20/2025
AVAILABLE BEFORE 4/18/2025

The Role : WorldQuant is seeking a highly skilled and motivated candidate to join our Build and Release team. We are a small team of developers who support and develop new features for the central build and release system at the firm. The right candidate will be able to use their experience in software development, build automation, and release management to tackle interesting and often complex challenges we face as we are growing the scale and the scope of our operation. You will have a real business impact as you collaborate across technology teams to architect, code, and deliver solutions that enable and improve the speed at which we build and distribute a variety of software.

Remember to check your CV before applying Also, ensure you read through all the requirements related to this role.

A successful candidate will have an approachable personality, communicate clearly and effectively, have a track record of solving problems in the developer and Dev Ops space, be comfortable thinking outside of the box, and be able to pick up new tech skills quickly.

Responsibilities :

  • Work closely with a global team of engineers to support, enhance, and expand company-wide developer tooling and build and deployment systems and infrastructure.
  • Collaborate with engineering and research teams to improve developer build and deployment experience.
  • Assume ownership and ensure reliability of existing and new build and release pipelines.
  • Assist with package and release software requested by the WorldQuant users.
  • Work with users and the team to troubleshoot and address issues for a variety of software; debug and resolve library dependency, build systems and deployment issues for Python, C , and Java codebases.
  • Develop and ensure quality of documentation and build tools to facilitate user experience.
  • Create proprietary solutions to increase stability and scalability of the build, test and deploy portions of the firm’s SDLC processes.

Requirements :

  • Excellent verbal and written communication skills.
  • Good analytical skills and passion for solving problems in pragmatic ways with a sense of urgency.
  • Experience with build systems, software packaging and package managers.
  • Experience with software build automation systems; experience with Nix (nixpkgs, NixOS) is a big plus.
  • Proficiency in Linux (shell tools, bash, understanding of file systems and networking).
  • Proficiency in Python, able to write clean code and tests, able to debug code.
  • Experience debugging build systems : Make, CMake, Bazel, etc.
  • Proficiency with Git and experience with CI / CD pipelines.
  • Nice to have :

  • Background in multiple programming languages.
  • Experience with infrastructure management (Ansible).
  • Experience with cloud computing and containerization.
  • Experience with configuration and support of Nginx.
  • Experience with configuration and use of monitoring systems (Prometheus, Grafana).
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