Platform Engineer at Schonfeld

The Role  

We are seeking a proactive and self-motivated engineer to join our Platform Solutions team in Schonfeld’s technology department. This team is responsible for designing, building, and maintaining our quantitative development platform and ensuring its high availability and scalability. Our objective is to provide a reliable, user friendly, fully automated platform that allows our developers and quantitative investment teams to quickly get up and running operationally without worrying about infrastructure. The ideal candidate should demonstrate excellent leadership, a willingness to take initiative, be a strong learner, and collaborate effectively with cross-functional teams. 

What you’ll do  

• Collaborate with quant and development teams to ensure seamless application deployments, and to establish comprehensive coding environments from day one.
• Automate infrastructure provisioning and management processes. We believe all infrastructure and tools we provide should be self-service and highly maintainable at scale.
• Contribute and lead efforts to continuously improve the platform reliability, security, and cost optimization.
• On-call Duties: Participate in L3 on-call rotations and incident response processes.
• Mentor and upskill team members on cloud-native technologies and best practices. 

What you’ll bring 

What you need:  

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field (or equivalent experience).
• Experience architecting end‑to‑end solutions in partnership with our quant and dev teams
• Strong coding skills in at least one language, ideally Python, but open to other languages.
• Strong knowledge of Kubernetes and container orchestration.
• Extensive experience with major cloud providers (AWS, Azure) and cloud-native technologies.
• Experience building and maintaining CI/CD pipelines leveraging DevOps practices.
• Excellent cultural fit and ability to collaborate effectively with cross-functional teams.
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills to effectively communicate with Portfolio managers 

We’d love if you had:  

• Ability to understand and model business workflows in a financial institution, and reflect them in platform and tooling decisions.
• Passionate about cloud-native technologies and has a strong desire to learn and grow.
• Has a deep understanding of Infrastructure as Code (IaC) principles and practices.
• Is adept at translating complex requirements into robust technical solutions.
• Is committed to driving engineering excellence and continuous improvement.
• Have experience in tools like coder and prefect 

Who we are 

Schonfeld is a global multi-manager hedge fund that strives to deliver industry-leading risk-adjusted returns for our investors. We leverage both internal and external portfolio manager teams around the world, seeking to capitalize on inefficiencies and opportunities within the markets. We draw from decades of experience and a significant investment in proprietary technology, infrastructure and risk analytics to invest across four main strategies: Quant, Tactical, Fundamental Equity and Discretionary Macro & Fixed Income.

Our Culture

At Schonfeld, we’ll invest in you. Attracting and retaining top talent is at the heart of what we do, because we believe that exceptional outcomes begin with exceptional people. We foster a culture where talent is empowered to continually learn, innovate and encourage community through internal networks, external partnerships and service initiatives that promote inclusion and purpose beyond the firm’s walls.

The base pay for this role is expected to be between $150,000 and $180,000. The expected base pay range is based on information at the time this post was generated. This role may also be eligible for other forms of compensation such as a performance bonus and a competitive benefits package. Actual compensation for the successful candidate will be determined based on a variety of factors such as skills, qualifications, and experience.