Senior Software Engineer, Platform Engineering - Developer Acceleration

Balyasny Asset Management

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Work type
On-site
Location
London, United KingdomNew York, NY
Salary
$175,000–$250,000 / yr
Posted
4 days ago
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Confirmed live today

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Above market

How this pay compares to similar roles

Similar $182k
This role $212k
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This role pays more than 74% of similar roles. Most pay $151,000–$213,200 — the shaded band above. At the midpoint, this role pays about $212k versus about $182k for comparable roles.

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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 61 open roles on FindRole.

Listed pay typically runs $175,000–$250,000 across 34 roles with salary data.

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TL;DR · Senior Software Engineer, Platform Engineering - Developer Acceleration

As a Senior Software Engineer, Platform Engineering – Developer Acceleration, you will join the team responsible for the end-to-end developer experience, including source control, authentication systems, and infrastructure that supports live trading environments. You will design, build, and maintain an internal developer platform with a specific focus on infrastructure, core data services, runtime enablement, PaaS, and AI-SDLC enablement. Your daily work involves building solutions to accelerate development processes using agents for code generation, testing, and deployment while automating deployment pipelines and operational processes. You will utilize GoLang, Python, Kubernetes, containers, Terraform, and distributed REST and gRPC services to build high-throughput systems. The role addresses the technical challenge of providing scalable, reliable infrastructure and developer acceleration tooling across both cloud and on-premises environments to help investment teams and researchers mobilize ideas quickly.

What does a Software Engineer earn in New York?

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What you'll do

  • Build solutions that integrate AI agents into the development lifecycle for code generation, testing, and deployment.
  • Develop tools to help investment teams and researchers mobilize new ideas quickly.
  • Architect and maintain scalable, reliable common software and platform solutions used across the entire business.
  • Establish company-wide engineering standards, frameworks, and utilities to drive technical standardization.
  • Design and automate deployment pipelines and operational processes to increase developer autonomy.
  • Implement SRE and DevOps best practices including observability, CI/CD, and infrastructure as code.
  • Participate in on-call rotations and manage incident response to ensure production reliability.

What we're looking for

  • 10+ years of hands-on experience architecting and delivering production-ready software.
  • Bachelor's degree in engineering, computer science, information systems, or equivalent experience.
  • Strong software development experience with GoLang and Python.
  • Strong understanding and hands-on experience working with agentic workflows and SDKs.
  • Experience working with containers and Kubernetes.
  • Experience building distributed REST & gRPC services.
  • Experience designing solutions architecture and working with distributed high throughput systems.
  • Experience working with configuration/infrastructure as code, such as Terraform.

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