Tower Research Capital LLC

Senior Platform Engineer, Build & Developer Infrastructure

New York · Senior

Sponsorship not specified$150k-$200kDetected 6 days ago

PythonC++Distributed SystemsCode ReviewGitElasticsearchAWSGCPAzureDockerKubernetesTerraformAnsibleCI/CDLinuxPrometheusGrafanaDevOpsSite Reliability EngineeringPlatform EngineeringMachine LearningAI OrchestrationCybersecurityIncident Response

About the role

We have a 25+ year track record of innovation and a reputation for discovering unique market opportunities.
Tower is home to some of the world's best systematic trading and engineering talent.
Our engineers solve challenging problems in the realms of low-latency programming, FPGA technology, hardware acceleration and machine learning.

Responsibilities

Designing, building, and enhancing tools that support developer productivity, systems infrastructure, and DevOps practices
Partner with the global Platform, Developer Infrastructure, and Release Engineering team to align regional solutions with global standards while representing local engineering, operational, and business priorities.
Maintain and improve build and release infrastructure for large-scale C++ and Python applications, including build tooling, dependency management, CI/CD integration, artifact workflows, and developer self-service capabilities.
Partner with software engineers, infrastructure engineers, quants, traders, and SRE teams to design, build, and operate reliable software delivery platforms.
Design, develop, and operate scalable CI/CD pipelines for build, test, artifact promotion, deployment, and release workflows.
Build and maintain infrastructure automation and configuration management solutions for platform, CI/CD, artifact, and developer infrastructure services.
Develop internal developer tooling and self-service platform capabilities that reduce operational toil and improve developer productivity.
Use containerization and orchestration technologies to support reproducible builds, reliable CI/CD execution, and consistent deployment workflows.
Improve observability for build, CI/CD, release, and platform services through centralized logging, metrics, tracing, dashboards, and alerting.
Troubleshoot and optimize build, CI/CD, artifact, and developer infrastructure systems with a focus on performance, reliability, scalability, and security.

Requirements

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related discipline, or equivalent practical experience.
Strong understanding of software build systems, especially for large C++ codebases
experience with CMake, Ninja, Bazel, Buck2, or similar tools.
Experience with Python packaging, dependency management, and environment management tools such as pip, conda, uv, pixi, or similar.
Experience with artifact repositories, binary/package distribution, and artifact lifecycle management using tools such as Artifactory, Nexus, Harbor, or similar.
Experience with infrastructure automation and configuration management tools such as Terraform, Ansible, or similar.
Experience with containerization technologies such as Docker or Podman
familiarity with orchestration platforms such as Kubernetes, Nomad, ECS, or similar.
Proficiency in Python and shell scripting.
Experience with Git and collaborative development workflows.
7+ years of hands-on engineering experience building, operating, or improving software delivery, platform, infrastructure, CI/CD, DevOps, SRE, or developer productivity systems.
Strong Linux systems knowledge and troubleshooting skills.
Experience building and operating CI/CD platforms, including pipeline design, build/test automation, artifact promotion, secrets handling, and failure diagnosis.
Experience with cloud, hybrid, or on-premises infrastructure environments

Nice to have

AWS, GCP, Azure, or private infrastructure experience preferred.
Preferred Experience with:

Compensation

Anticipated New York annual base salary range $150,000 - $200,000, plus eligible for discretionary bonus.

Benefits

Generous paid time off policies
Savings plans and other financial wellness tools available in each region
In-office wellness experiences and reimbursement for select wellness expenses (e.g., gym, personal training and more)
Company-sponsored sports teams and fitness events (JPM Corporate Challenge, Cycle for Survival, Wall Street Rides FAR and more)
Workshops and continuous learning opportunities

Company info

Tower Research Capital is a leading quantitative trading firm founded in 1998.
Tower has built its business on a high-performance platform and independent trading teams.
Our ongoing investment in top engineering talent and technology ensures our platform remains unmatched in terms of functionality, scalability and performance.
Our Business Support teams are essential to building and maintaining the platform that powers everything we do - combining market access, data, compute, and research infrastructure with risk management, compliance, and a full suite of business services.
We are looking for a Senior Platform Engineer to help build, operate, and improve the software delivery and developer infrastructure platforms used by engineering teams working on large-scale C++ and Python applications.

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