The Voleon Group

Site Reliability Engineer

The Voleon Group$120K — $160K *
Information Technology
Less than 5 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • 2 years of relevant industry experience
  • Experience with coding and debugging Python
  • Experience with Linux
  • Familiarity with Relational Databases & SQL
  • Strong analytical and problem-solving skills
  • Strong growth mindset and passion for learning
  • Strong technical communication skills
  • Attention to detail
  • Undergraduate degree in a quantitative field or equivalent experience

Responsibilities

  • Improve fault-tolerance and maintainability of production-critical code
  • Diagnose and fix bugs in operational systems
  • Lead complex deployments of production infrastructure
  • Automate manual workflows to increase efficiency
  • Track and prioritize outstanding production-related issues
  • Participate in on-call rotation to ensure system reliability

Benefits

  • Collaborative and empowering team environment
  • Opportunities for professional growth and development
  • Impactful work on critical systems
  • Access to advanced technology and tools
  • Participation in a mentoring and referral program
Full Job Description
As a Site Reliability Engineer (SRE), you will work at the intersection of production operations and software development as you improve, manage, and monitor production-critical infrastructure and data pipelines. At Voleon, many SREs serve together on a Production Operations team tasked with improving shared production infrastructure. Others are embedded with teams of software engineers to improve specific production systems owned by those teams. Voleon SREs work on important real-world problems and collaborate with passionate and talented colleagues in an empowering, results-driven environment. This role is a way to make a real difference: your contributions will make our critical systems more reliable, lower operational risk, and increase the efficiency of our engineering effort.

Responsibilities
  • Improve fault-tolerance and maintainability of code in proprietary data pipelines and trading systems
  • Diagnose and fix bugs in code
  • Lead complex deployments
  • Automate manual workflows
  • Track and prioritize outstanding production-related issues
  • Share an on-call rotation responding to incidents to ensure the continuous operation of production-critical systems


Requirements
  • Experience with coding and debugging Python
  • Experience with Linux
  • Familiarity with Relational Databases & SQL
  • Sharp analytical and problem-solving skills and a persistent drive to make things work (better)
  • Strong growth mindset and a passion for learning
  • Strong technical communication skills
  • Attention to detail
  • 2 years of relevant industry experience
  • An undergraduate degree or comparable training in a quantitative field or equivalent, relevant industry experience


Preferred Qualifications
  • Familiarity with best practices concerning code maintainability, documentation, quality assurance, continuous integration and deployment
  • Experience supporting production systems
  • Experience with any of the following: gRPC microservices, Postgres, Pandas, Golang, R, Git, Jenkins, Bazel, Prometheus, Grafana, Airflow, Kubernetes


"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.

About The Voleon Group

The Voleon Group is a quantitative investment management firm that uses advanced mathematical and statistical techniques to identify and exploit market inefficiencies. The company was founded in 2007 by Michael Kharitonov and Jon McAuliffe and is based in San Francisco, California. Voleon's investment strategies are based on machine learning and artificial intelligence, and the company has a team of over 200 researchers and engineers working to develop and improve its algorithms. Voleon manages several funds, including a long/short equity fund and a futures fund, and has a strong track record of performance. The company is known for its rigorous approach to research and its commitment to transparency and ethical behavior.
Learn more about The Voleon Group
Size
200 employees
Industry
Founded
2007

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