Oaktree

Oaktree

Senior Software Engineer

Los Angeles, California · Senior

Sponsorship not specified$190k-$225kDetected 4 days ago
PythonJavaGoC++C#Scala.NETDistributed SystemsFull-Stack DevelopmentData StructuresAlgorithmsCode ReviewAWSGCPAzureCloud PlatformsCI/CDData EngineeringLLMsA/B TestingTest AutomationLeadershipCommunicationProblem Solving

About the role

  • Our Company Oaktree is a leader among global investment managers specializing in alternative investments, with more than $220 billion in assets under management.
  • The firm emphasizes an opportunistic, value-oriented, and risk-controlled approach to investments in credit, equity, and real estate.
  • The firm has more than 1,400 employees and offices in more than 25 cities worldwide.

Responsibilities

  • Build and own critical components of the credit platform end-to-end -- from data pipelines and services to the user-facing applications that investment professionals rely on daily.
  • Design and implement data-intensive applications -- including ingestion pipelines, transformation layers, analytical engines, and APIs -- that are performant, reliable, and built to evolve.
  • Apply grounded generative AI thoughtfully across your work -- using it to enhance development velocity, improve code quality, augment analytical capabilities, and build AI-powered features for end users -- while maintaining rigor around validation, transparency, and responsible use.
  • Mentor and elevate engineers across the team through design reviews, code reviews, and by setting a high bar for craft and ownership.
  • Implement modern development and release practices including CI/CD, feature flags, automated testing, and observability.
  • You will be deep in the codebase, building systems, solving hard problems, and shipping software.
  • You will build data-intensive applications that sit at the heart of how Oaktree sources, analyzes, and manages credit investments -- from the data pipelines and integration layers underneath to the interfaces that investment professionals use every day.
  • Providing training and career development opportunities and emphasizing strong support for our local communities through philanthropic initiatives are essential to our culture.
  • This is a senior individual contributor who will be instrumental in building the next-generation platform for Oaktree's credit business -- one of the firm's largest and most complex investment strategies.
  • The goal is concrete -- help Oaktree's credit business scale well beyond $200 billion in AUM by building technology that makes our investment professionals faster, sharper, and more effective.

Requirements

  • 10+ years of experience in software engineering, with a track record of building and owning data-intensive systems in production.
  • Deep expertise in designing systems that process, transform, and serve large volumes of data -- you think naturally about data modeling, pipeline architecture, storage trade-offs, and query performance.
  • Proficiency in Python and at least one statically typed, compiled language (e.g., C#/.NET, C++, Java, Scala, Go).
  • Hands-on experience with at least one major cloud platform (Azure, AWS, or GCP) and modern cloud-native patterns: microservices, event-driven architectures, containerization, and infrastructure as code.
  • Our environment is Azure-based, but the ability to think in cloud-native terms matters more than any specific vendor certification.
  • 10+ years of experience in software engineering, with a track record of building and owning data-intensive systems in production. You write code daily and expect to keep doing so.
  • Proven success as a senior individual contributor or staff/principal engineer in domains with real complexity -- financial services, infrastructure, data platforms, or similarly demanding environments where getting the abstractions right matters.
  • Strong computer science fundamentals: you think clearly about data structures, algorithms, concurrency, distributed systems, and performance -- not just frameworks and tooling.
  • Proficiency in Python and at least one statically typed, compiled language (e.g., C#/.NET, C++, Java, Scala, Go). We haven't formalized a single stack -- we're looking for engineers with range who can reason about language and tooling trade-offs and help us make those decisions well.
  • Hands-on experience with at least one major cloud platform (Azure, AWS, or GCP) and modern cloud-native patterns: microservices, event-driven architectures, containerization, and infrastructure as code. Our environment is Azure-based, but the ability to think in cloud-native terms matters more than any specific vendor certification.
  • Comfortable working without a traditional PM structure -- you can engage directly with stakeholders, navigate ambiguity, prioritize independently, and own outcomes from problem definition through delivery.
  • Strong product instinct: a demonstrated ability to connect technical execution with user needs and business outcomes, not just deliver to a spec.
  • Skilled at mentoring engineers and influencing without authority -- you raise the bar for everyone around you.
  • Excellent communicator who can think in both systems and stories, and who is equally comfortable whiteboarding with engineers and discussing priorities with business leaders.
  • Personal Attributes

Nice to have

  • Advanced degree (MS, MBA) or equivalent experience in product-focused engineering leadership preferred.

Skills

  • proven patterns, reliable technologies, and architecture that will hold up under the weight of a growing global credit business.

Compensation

  • $190,000-$225,000
  • In addition to a competitive base salary, you will be eligible to receive discretionary bonus incentives, a comprehensive benefits package and a flexible work arrangement.
  • The base salary offered will be commensurate with experience and/or qualifications, industry knowledge and expertise, as well as prior training and education.

Company info

  • Vice President is an internal title common across the financial industry.
  • We are committed to cultivating an environment that is collaborative, curious, inclusive and honors diversity of thought.
  • We are looking for a Vice President to join our newly formed Product Engineering group.
  • We are modernizing our architecture and technology stack in the cloud.

Equal opportunity

  • Employment Policy
  • Oaktree is committed to diversity and to equal opportunity employment. Oaktree does not make employment decisions on the basis of race, creed, color, ethnicity, national origin, citizenship, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, age, past or present physical or mental disability, HIV status, medical condition as defined by state law (genetic characteristics or cancer), pregnancy, childbirth and related medical conditions, veteran status, military service, marital status, familial status, genetic information, domestic violence victim status or any other classification protected by applicable federal, state and local laws and ordinances. This policy applies to hiring, placement, internal promotions, training, opportunities for advancement, recruitment advertising, transfers, demotions, layoffs, terminations, recruitment advertising, rates of pay and other forms of compensation and all other terms, conditions and privileges of employment. This policy applies to all Oaktree applicants, employees, clients, and contractors. Staff members wishing to report violations or suspected violations of this policy should contact the head of their department or Human Resources.
  • For positions based in Los Angeles
  • For those applying for a position in the city of Los Angeles, the firm will consider for employment qualified applicants with a criminal history in a manner consistent with applicable federal, state and local law.

Visa & Work Authorization

  • Oaktree does not make employment decisions on the basis of race, creed, color, ethnicity, national origin, citizenship, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, age, past or present physical
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