Summary
A high-performance research and technology organization is hiring a founding Platform Engineer to own infrastructure end to end. You will strengthen and scale multi-region cloud systems, real-time data pipelines, low-latency services, deployment workflows, observability, resilience, security, and ML-serving infrastructure. The role requires deep Linux and networking knowledge, strong AWS and Python experience, Kubernetes, infrastructure as code, data systems, and a track record operating production environments where downtime is costly.
Highlights
Founding-level ownership, substantial compensation and equity, direct influence over architecture, and the opportunity to build resilient, low-latency infrastructure for demanding production workloads.
Description
About the Company
Axon Labs is a next-generation systematic trading and research lab.
We combine machine learning, neuroscience-inspired architectures (the Axon Cognitive Architecture), and high-performance engineering to build decision engines that run in live markets, where reliability and precision translate directly into performance.
We are backed by Northzone, a16z Speedrun, and Concept Ventures.
Pay range and compensation package
Competitive salary up to £200,000Performance-linked bonusMeaningful founding equity
The equity is real, and so is the upside if we get this right.
About the Role
We are already live, with multiple strategies running in production across venues on infrastructure we built ourselves: real-time data ingestion, low-latency messaging, research compute, and monitoring.
What we don't yet have is one engineer who owns that platform end to end.
That is this role.
You will take what works today, make it bulletproof, and scale it into a real infrastructure advantage.
This is a founding hire.
You will work directly with founders, researchers, and traders, set engineering standards, and have direct influence over architecture from day one.
Responsibilities
Production infrastructure across multi-region cloud and latency-sensitive environmentsReliable systems for live trading, multi-venue market data ingestion, and research computeDeployment pipelines that ship strategy and model changes quickly and safelyObservability across data quality, execution, strategy, and infrastructureResilience: failover, disaster recovery, and operational readiness for systems that lose money when they’re downThe path from research prototype to production service, with real testing and monitoringSecurity architecture: IAM, networking, secrets, access controlML-serving infrastructure: low-latency model serving, feature pipelines, and experiment tooling
Qualifications
Likely background: You may come from Jane Street, D.
E.
Shaw, Two Sigma, Hudson River, Optiver, XTX, Citadel, an exchange or market-infrastructure business, or a top infra team at a serious technology company.
You should have built and run production systems where downtime had a real cost, and you have supported researchers or traders.
Required Skills
Deep Linux and networking fundamentalsStrong cloud experience, ideally AWS (compute, networking, IAM, storage, observability)Strong Python; C++ for latency-critical paths is a plusContainer orchestration with Kubernetes (or equivalent)Infrastructure as code (Terraform or equivalent), CI/CD and release engineeringData systems: PostgreSQL / TimescaleDB, Kafka, Redis, low-latency messagingMonitoring: Grafana, Prometheus, Loki, or similarSecurity-first mindset
Apply
If you’ve run demanding production systems and want to build the platform behind a next-generation trading and research lab, we’d like to talk.
ayush@axonlabs.co
