The Voleon Group

Senior Linux Infrastructure Engineer

Posted Yesterday

Hiring Remotely in United States

Remote

215K-250K Annually

Senior level

Financial Services

The Role

As a Senior Linux Infrastructure Engineer, you will build and maintain scalable Linux infrastructure, develop operational tooling, ensure security, and participate in on-call support.

Summary Generated by Built In

Voleon is a technology company that applies state-of-the-art AI and machine learning techniques to real-world problems in finance. For nearly two decades, we have led our industry and worked at the frontier of applying AI/ML to investment management. We have become a multibillion-dollar asset manager, and we have ambitious goals for the future.

Your colleagues will include internationally recognized experts in artificial intelligence and machine learning research as well as highly experienced finance and technology professionals. The people who shape our company come from other backgrounds, including concert music performances, humanitarian aid, opera singing, sports writing, and BMX racing. You will be part of a team that loves to succeed together.

In addition to our enriching and collegial working environment, we offer highly competitive compensation and benefits packages, technology talks by our experts, a beautiful modern office, daily catered lunches, and more.

As a Senior Linux Infrastructure Engineer, you will build, automate, and maintain an exemplary Linux infrastructure. One that is available, scalable, secure. performant, and fully reproducible. There is an emphasis on modern tooling and following a stringent software developed lifecycle.

Responsibilities

Developing operational tooling in Python, Ruby, or similar language (these are beyond shell scripts to be used to perform API integrations, data processing, and system orchestration tasks)
Design and implement systems that are highly available, self healing, scalable, and performant
Create comprehensive metrics, monitoring, visualizations, and alerting systems applied to all parts of the infrastructure
Design and implement all systems components with “Security First” principles
Heavily engage with AI tools for all aspects of development and support
Participate in an on-call rotation

Requirements

At least 7 years of working as a Linux Systems Administrator or Engineer
In-Depth understanding of Linux fundamentals regarding filesystems, process scheduling, virtual memory management, and other base primitives
In-Depth understanding of the TCP/IP network protocol and addressing
Significant experience developing operational tooling in Python, Ruby, or similar language
Significant experience with Configuration Management platform (Ansible, Puppet, Chef))
Experience with metrics, monitoring and visualization tools (Prometheus, Influx, Grafana)

Preferred

Experience with CI/CD tools (Jenkins, Github Actions)
Experience with containers and container orchestration
Experience with distributed storage (Ceph, Lustre, GPFS)
Experience with RDBMS (Postgres, MySQL)

The base salary range for this position is $215,000 to $250,000 in the location(s) of this posting. Individual salaries are determined through a variety of factors, including, but not limited to, education, experience, knowledge, skills, and geography. Base salary does not include other forms of total compensation such as bonus compensation and other benefits. Our benefits package includes medical, dental and vision coverage, life and AD&D insurance, 20 days of paid time off, 9 sick days, and a 401(k) plan with a company match.

“Friends of Voleon” Candidate Referral Program

If you have a great candidate in mind for this role and would like to have the potential to earn $15,000 if your referred candidate is successfully hired and employed by The Voleon Group, please use this form to submit your referral. For more details regarding eligibility, terms and conditions please make sure to review the Voleon Referral Bonus Program.

Equal Opportunity Employer

The Voleon Group is an Equal Opportunity employer. Applicants are considered without regard to race, color, religion, creed, national origin, age, sex, gender, marital status, sexual orientation and identity, genetic information, veteran status, citizenship, or any other factors prohibited by local, state, or federal law.

Top Skills

Ansible

Ceph

Chef

Github Actions

Gpfs

Grafana

Influx

Jenkins

Linux

Lustre

MySQL

Postgres

Prometheus

Puppet

Python

Ruby

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The Company

HQ: Berkeley, CA

169 Employees

Year Founded: 2007

What We Do

Founded in 2007 by two machine learning scientists, The Voleon Group is a quantitative hedge fund headquartered in Berkeley, CA. We are committed to solving large-scale financial prediction problems with statistical machine learning.

The Voleon Group combines an academic research culture with an emphasis on scalable architectures to deliver technology at the forefront of investment management. Many of our employees hold doctorates in statistics, computer science, and mathematics, among other quantitative disciplines.

Voleon's CEO holds a Ph.D. in Computer Science from Stanford and previously founded and led a successful technology startup. Our Chief Investment Officer and Head of Research is Statistics faculty at UC Berkeley, where he earned his Ph.D. Voleon prides itself on cultivating an office environment that fosters creativity, collaboration, and open thinking. We are committed to excellence in all aspects of our research and operations, while maintaining a culture of intellectual curiosity and flexibility.

The Voleon Group is an Equal Opportunity employer. Applicants are considered without regard to race, color, religion, creed, national origin, age, sex, gender, marital status, sexual orientation and identity, genetic information, veteran status, citizenship, or any other factors prohibited by local, state, or federal law.