The Voleon Group
Staff Software Engineer, Strategy Platform
$325K–$410K
Berkeley, CA +1 · Hybrid · Staff · Full-time · Posted Sep 25, 2026
- Location
- Berkeley, CA
New York City, NY - Experience
- 8+ years in backend, data pipelines, or platform engineering.
- Education
- Computer Science Degree, or equivalent experience.
About the job
Own and evolve the platform connecting quantitative research to live trading, including data pipelines, strategy deployment, and production operations.
What you'll do
- Own platform systems for accessing, validating, orchestrating, and cataloguing data across research and production; support pipelines with varied latency and correctness needs.
- Build production deployment workflows, vendor data integrations, tooling for new assets and markets, and observability across the strategy lifecycle.
- Lead cross-company platform projects and migrations to shared abstractions while minimizing disruption to active trading systems.
What they ask for
- 8+ years of experience in backend, data pipelines, or platform engineering.
- Experience owning and improving platform systems used daily by other teams, including making decomposition and migration decisions.
- Strong debugging and observability skills, including navigating unfamiliar codebases and complex data pipelines.
- Computer Science Degree, or equivalent experience.
Nice to have
- Experience with Airflow, Dagster, Spark, Iceberg, Trino, Flink, or similar data infrastructure; familiarity with ML infrastructure patterns.
- Python Fluency.
Pay
$325K – $410K USD base salary
Tools
Airflow, Dagster, Spark, Iceberg, Trino, Flink, Python
AI focus
The platform supports ML-driven trading strategies, including feature computation and research-to-production workflows; the role does not specify direct AI or ML development.
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