Lead Production Engineer, Operations and Finance Technology

Balyasny Asset Management

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Work type
On-site
Location
New York, NY
Salary
$200,000–$250,000 / yr
Posted
70 days ago
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Above market

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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.

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TL;DR · Lead Production Engineer, Operations and Finance Technology

The Lead Production Engineer, Operations and Finance Technology joins the technology team to provide end-to-end ownership of critical production systems. This role involves leading a global follow-the-sun support model for applications spanning Middle Office, P&L, accounting, treasury, and related business functions. You will build tooling, automation, and observability solutions to improve the resilience of the technology estate. Key responsibilities include managing production incidents, defining service reliability through SLIs and SLOs, and overseeing integrations like FIX connectivity and vendor data feeds. You will utilize technologies including Rust, C#, Python, SQL, and Microsoft SQL Server. The role requires expertise in AWS, Azure, or GCP, as well as OpenTelemetry and the Grafana stack. You will solve complex problems involving trade booking, position management, and financial reconciliations.

What you'll do

  • Own a significant technical domain or platform end-to-end, from problem definition and design through production delivery.
  • Lead the response to complex production incidents across applications, databases, infrastructure, and business processes.
  • Define and manage service reliability using SLIs, SLOs, SLAs, error budgets, and capacity signals.
  • Develop observability, automation, and telemetry tools to improve the resilience and health of the technology estate.
  • Deliver real-time services and tooling across cloud and on-premises environments using languages like Rust, C#, and Python.
  • Ensure the safe operation of critical daily processes including P&L, accounting, and treasury reconciliations.
  • Apply AI and automation to incident diagnostics and remediation to reduce manual effort and recurring issues.
  • Coach engineers through technical guidance, design reviews, and incident leadership to strengthen team capabilities.

What we're looking for

  • Significant experience as a Production Engineer, Site Reliability Engineer, Software Engineer, or a similar hands-on engineering role.
  • Demonstrated experience leading the technical design and delivery of a significant system, platform, operational domain, or cross-team initiative.
  • Strong hands-on experience building and maintaining software in a modern programming language like Python, Rust, or C#.
  • Experience building observability and monitoring using OpenTelemetry, the Grafana stack, and ITRS Geneos.
  • Strong knowledge of reliability engineering practices including SLIs, SLOs, SLAs, alerting, and incident management.
  • Experience with SQL and relational databases, including Microsoft SQL Server.
  • Experience building and monitoring production services in AWS, Microsoft Azure, Google Cloud Platform, or another major cloud environment.
  • Relevant college degree or equivalent professional experience.

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