Data Engineer, Multi-Asset Arbitrage

Balyasny Asset Management

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Work type
On-site
Location
London, United KingdomNew York, NY
Salary
$175,000–$250,000 / yr
Posted
63 days ago
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About Balyasny Asset Management

Balyasny Asset Management (BAM) is a global multi-manager hedge fund offering diversified investment strategies across equities, macro, commodities, and systematic trading.

Balyasny Asset Management currently has 53 open roles on FindRole.

Listed pay typically runs $175,000–$250,000 across 37 roles with salary data.

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TL;DR · Data Engineer, Multi-Asset Arbitrage

The Data Engineer, Multi-Asset Arbitrage joins a team responsible for building and supporting a world-class data platform for portfolio managers. In this role, you will design and grow the data plane for back-testing and other data-intensive applications, handling petabyte-level ingestion, ETL, data quality, storage, backfills, and APIs. You will collaborate with quantitative engineers and researchers to deliver business requirements while balancing feasibility, stability, and scalability. Required technical skills include expertise in SQL, timeseries databases, and big data stores, alongside proficiency in Python, Rust, or C++ and libraries like Pandas, Polars, Dask, Vaex, or PySpark. You must experience with Parquet, Arrow, Kafka, and Redis. The work involves architecting data platforms, batch and streaming ETLs, and optimizing performance for financial research and portfolio management.

What does a Data Engineer earn?

Median $159000 from 203 postings across 58 companies.

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What you'll do

  • Design, build, and grow the data plane for back-testing and other data-intensive applications.
  • Manage petabyte-level ingestion, ETL processes, data quality, storage, and backfills.
  • Develop and maintain APIs for data consumption.
  • Architect and build batch and streaming data platforms using lake/warehouse/lakehouse patterns.
  • Optimize code performance and tune distributed application components like Kafka and Redis.
  • Build application-level code and REST APIs to expose business logic.
  • Implement distributed tracing and monitoring metrics using tools like Prometheus and Grafana.

What we're looking for

  • 5+ years of work experience in a data-intensive capacity building back-testing infrastructure or similar initiatives.
  • Demonstrable expertise in SQL and databases, especially timeseries and big data stores.
  • Strong skills in Python, Rust, or C++ and at least one data-manipulation library like Pandas, Polars, Dask, Vaex, or PySpark.
  • Experience architecting and building data platforms and ETLs, including batch, streaming, data lake, warehouse, and lakehouse patterns.
  • Experience with column-oriented data storage and serialization formats such as Parquet or Arrow.
  • Strong knowledge of distributed application components like Kafka, Redis, or other messaging and caching tools.
  • Experience with code optimization and performance tuning.
  • Prior experience with ClickHouse, Snowflake, or financial software is a plus (preferred).

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