PDT Partners

PDT Partners

Cloud Computing Engineer

New York, NY · Senior

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About the role

  • The Cloud Computing team is a group of experts solving computing problems in the critical path of Research.
  • This is a hybrid position and will require the person to work from our New York City office at minimum 3 days a week.
  • Our goal is to be the best quantitative investment manager in the world-measured by the quality of our products, not their size.

Responsibilities

  • Design and implementation of cloud-based HPC systems.
  • You will be expected to conceive and implement projects small and large in the intersection of HPC scheduling, metrics, containerization, software distribution, accelerated compute performance/efficiency, cloud architecture.
  • Running our HPC plant day-to-day. Our research environment is up 24/7, and we want to keep it that way. Everybody on the team contributes to the support of our platform, which thankfully is light because of our automation and quality work.
  • Obsessive User Focus. All members of the team are expected to partner with researchers and engineers to deliver high-quality cloud HPC systems that are efficient and reliable. This includes leading projects to evolve it as our needs change.
  • Mastery of core software engineering concepts such as system design, testing, debugging, building reliable production systems with fluency in a language such as Python, Go, Rust etc.

Requirements

  • Bachelors or Masters degree in an Engineering or Applied Sciences field from a rigorous academic program or equivalent professional experience.
  • 5+ years of experience building and shipping software systems
  • Experience with a cloud-based infrastructure-as-code tool such as Terraform

Nice to have

  • Experience working with or supporting researchers and/or other developers is a plus

Compensation

  • The salary range for this role is between $180,000 and $250,000.
  • Factors that may impact the agreed upon salary within the range for a particular candidate include years of experience, level of education obtained, skill set, and other external factors.

Benefits

  • This range is not inclusive of any potential bonus amounts.

Company info

  • We are looking for an ambitious and operationally minded software engineer to join our team as we mature and scale our cloud HPC platform to the next iteration of our firm-wide Research platform.
  • We are a small flat team sitting at the cross-section of research, implementation, and platform infrastructure.
  • Below is a list of skills and experiences we think are relevant. Even if you don't think you're a perfect match, we still encourage you to apply because we are committed to developing our people.
  • Even if you don't think you're a perfect match, we still encourage you to apply because we are committed to developing our people.

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