Platform Application Specialist

<p><strong>Role Overview:</strong></p> <p>As a Platform Services Specialist at Squarepoint, you will play a crucial technical role in delivering and maintaining mission-critical platform infrastructure using the DevOps methodology. You will work with a diverse group of stakeholders, including developers, researchers, and infrastructure teams, to build, automate, and scale the solutions and services used across the firm.</p> <p>You will be responsible for designing, monitoring, and scaling our platform infrastructure. You will have the opportunity to make a significant impact on the productivity and efficiency of our teams by enhancing operational efficiency, developing CI/CD pipelines, creating self-service workflows, and directly improving the developer and researcher experience.</p> <p>While you may have deep expertise in only one or more areas, you will be able to contribute across the entire ecosystem. Our platform domains include:</p> <ul> <li>Observability: Monitoring, tracing, logging, and alerting infrastructure.</li> <li>Scheduling &amp; Orchestration: HPC schedulers and container orchestration for compute-intensive workloads.</li> <li>Development Tools: CI/CD pipelines, version control, artifact repositories, and developer platforms.</li> <li>Middleware: Critical applications like messaging queues, service discovery, and load balancing.</li> <li>Databases: A wide range of relational, NoSQL, and time-series database systems.</li> <li>Automation: Infrastructure automation, configuration management, and self-service enablement.</li> </ul> <p><strong>Required Qualifications:</strong></p> <ul> <li>Degree in Engineering, Computer Science, or a related field.</li> <li>4+ years of experience in DevOps, SRE, or platform engineering roles.</li> <li>Software development experience with Python.</li> <li>Experience with system administration and troubleshooting (Linux, Bash, Containerization).</li> <li>Infrastructure automation and configuration management experience (e.g., Ansible, Terraform, Puppet).</li> </ul> <p><strong>Nice to have:</strong></p> <ul> <li>Deep knowledge of a modern observability stack (e.g., Prometheus, Grafana, Elastic Stack, Vector, AlertManager).</li> <li>Experience with a variety of database platforms (e.g., PostgreSQL, ClickHouse, MSSQL, Redis, FoundationDB).</li> <li>Familiarity with specific middleware (e.g., Kafka, Consul), HPC schedulers (e.g., Slurm), Kubernetes, or workflow orchestrators (e.g., Airflow, Prefect).</li> <li>Experience with on-premise deployments of development tools like GitLab, Artifactory, CICD, or JupyterHub.</li> <li>Knowledge of other programming languages such as Golang, Rust, or JavaScript.</li> <li>Experience with advanced software engineering concepts, API development, and creating Kubernetes Operators.</li> </ul> <p><span style="font-size: 10pt;"><em>The minimum base salary for this role is $120,000 if located in New York. &nbsp;This expectation is based on available information at the time of posting. &nbsp;This role may be eligible for discretionary bonuses, which could constitute a significant portion of total compensation.&nbsp; This role may also be eligible for benefits, such as health, dental, and other wellness plans, as well as 401(k) contributions.&nbsp; Successful candidates’ compensation and benefits will be determined in consideration of various factors</em></span></p>