Sr. DevOps Engineer

Developer Infrastructure Engineer

Build the developer infrastructure that powers one of the most sophisticated trading platforms in the world. You will own the build systems, CI/CD pipelines, and internal tooling that hundreds of engineers rely on every day to ship large-scale C++ and Python applications. If you like solving hard systems problems where performance and reliability actually matter, this one is worth a look.

About The Company

Our client is a leading quantitative trading firm with a 25+ year track record of innovation. They have built their business on a high-performance platform and independent trading teams, backed by some of the best systematic trading and engineering talent in the industry. Engineers here work on low-latency programming, FPGA technology, hardware acceleration, and machine learning, supported by ongoing investment in top talent and technology.

Why You Will Love This Role

• Work for a stable, established firm where smart, driven people thrive without the egos.
• Leverage your expertise in build systems, CI/CD, and infrastructure automation in ways that directly shape engineering velocity across the firm.
• Do meaningful work with real impact on developers, traders, and quants every single day.
• Collaborate with bright, motivated colleagues in an open-concept workplace that values both performance and enjoyment.

What You Will Do

• Design, build, and enhance tools that support developer productivity, systems infrastructure, and DevOps practices.
• Maintain and improve build and release infrastructure for large-scale C++ and Python applications, including build tooling, dependency management, CI/CD integration, and artifact workflows.
• Design, develop, and operate scalable CI/CD pipelines for build, test, artifact promotion, deployment, and release workflows.
• Build infrastructure automation and configuration management solutions across platform, CI/CD, and developer infrastructure services.
• Develop internal developer tooling and self-service capabilities that reduce operational toil.
• Use containerization and orchestration technologies to support reproducible builds and consistent deployment workflows.
• Improve observability through centralized logging, metrics, tracing, dashboards, and alerting.
• Implement software supply chain security practices, including artifact provenance, vulnerability scanning, secret management, and CI/CD security controls.
• Partner with software engineers, infrastructure engineers, quants, traders, and SRE teams, and align regional solutions with global standards.
• Participate in incident response, root cause analysis, and continuous improvement.

What You Bring

• 7+ years of hands-on engineering experience building, operating, or improving software delivery, platform, infrastructure, CI/CD, DevOps, SRE, or developer productivity systems.
• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related discipline, or equivalent practical experience.
• Strong Linux systems knowledge and troubleshooting skills.
• Strong understanding of software build systems for large C++ codebases, with experience in CMake, Ninja, Bazel, Buck2, or similar.
• Experience with Python packaging and environment management using pip, conda, uv, pixi, or similar.
• Experience building and operating CI/CD platforms, including pipeline design, build/test automation, artifact promotion, secrets handling, and failure diagnosis.
• Experience with artifact repositories and lifecycle management using Artifactory, Nexus, Harbor, or similar.
• Experience with infrastructure automation tools such as Terraform or Ansible.
• Experience with Docker or Podman, and familiarity with Kubernetes, Nomad, ECS, or similar.
• Experience with cloud, hybrid, or on-premises infrastructure. AWS, GCP, Azure, or private infrastructure preferred.
• Proficiency in Python and shell scripting, plus Git and collaborative development workflows.
• Strong understanding of networking fundamentals, including DNS, load balancing, TLS, routing, and service discovery.
• Practical understanding of distributed systems reliability concepts.
• Excellent communication skills and comfort working cross-functionally in a globally distributed environment.

Bonus Points If You Have

• Experience troubleshooting C++ build, linkage, dependency, ABI, compiler, and toolchain issues in large codebases.
• Experience modernizing legacy build systems, improving build reproducibility, reducing build times, or introducing remote caching and remote execution.
• Experience designing reproducible Python environments and internal package distribution workflows.
• Familiarity with observability platforms such as Prometheus, Grafana, OpenTelemetry, or OpenSearch.
• Experience with workflow orchestration such as Airflow, or GitOps deployment methodologies.
• Experience building internal developer portals or paved-road developer platforms.
• Systems programming experience in C++ and/or Rust.
• Experience integrating AI-assisted development tools into engineering workflows.

Compensation And Perks

• Generous paid time off policies.
• Savings plans and financial wellness tools.
• Hybrid working opportunities.
• Free breakfast, lunch, and snacks daily.
• In-office wellness experiences and reimbursement for select wellness expenses such as gym and personal training.
• Company-sponsored sports teams, fitness events, volunteer opportunities, and charitable giving.
• Social events, workshops, and continuous learning opportunities throughout the year.