Summary
✨ AI‑Generated
A leading quantitative technology organization is seeking a platform engineer or SRE to design, build, and maintain the infrastructure behind mission-critical, ultra-low-latency systems. You will develop CI/CD pipelines, strengthen observability, automate operational workflows, support containerized workloads, and improve reliability, performance, and scalability across distributed platforms. This is a hands-on role with significant technical ownership.
Highlights
Exceptional compensation potential, hands-on ownership of mission-critical infrastructure, work on highly scalable and resilient distributed systems, and responsibility for reliability, performance, automation, and developer tooling.
Description
🚀 Platform Engineer / SRE - Up to $400,000 + Bonus
🏦 Leading Quantitative Trading Firm | 📍 New York, USA
Ever wonder what infrastructure looks like behind a fund trading at nanosecond speed? ⚙️
My client - one of the world's leading quantitative trading firms - is hiring a Platform Engineer / Site Reliability Engineer (SRE) to design, build, and maintain the highly scalable, resilient platforms behind mission-critical trading systems.
This is hands-on technical ownership at real scale, not just keeping the lights on.
What You'll Be Doing:
🔹 Design, build, and maintain scalable platform infrastructure
🔹 Develop and optimize CI/CD pipelines to accelerate software delivery
🔹 Strengthen platform observability — monitoring, logging, tracing, alerting
🔹 Build automation and self-service tooling engineers actually rely on
🔹 Support containerized workloads and orchestration across large-scale environments
🔹 Drive reliability, performance, and scalability improvements across distributed systems and middleware
Desired Skills:
✅ Experience as a Platform Engineer, SRE, or DevOps Engineer
✅ Strong Linux systems knowledge and automation experience
✅ Track record building and maintaining CI/CD pipelines
✅ Hands-on with containerization and orchestration (Kubernetes, Docker)
✅ Solid grasp of monitoring, logging, and observability platforms
✅ Experience with Infrastructure as Code and infra automation
✅ Strong scripting/programming skills (Python, Go, Bash, or similar)
✅ Genuine passion for building reliable, highly available platforms
Why Join?
💡 Join one of the world's most respected quant trading firms
🚀 Real ownership of large-scale, mission-critical infrastructure
🤝 Work alongside exceptional engineers in a high-performance environment
📈 Tackle complex engineering challenges with modern DevOps/SRE practices
💰 Outstanding compensation, bonus, and comprehensive benefits
📩 Interested? Apply now or reach out directly for a confidential discussion - hrubin@hunterbond.com
