This role pays more than
72%
of similar roles. Most pay
$151,000–$216,000
— the shaded band above.
At the midpoint, this role pays about
$212k
versus about
$184k
for comparable roles.
Based on 240 similar postings.
Employer
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
64 open roles
on FindRole.
Listed pay typically runs
$175,000–$250,000
across 33 roles with salary data.
As a Senior Software Engineer, Platform Engineering – Identity, you will join the Platform Engineering team to design, build, and maintain critical authentication and authorization systems supporting research and live trading environments. You will develop bespoke solutions for human, non-human, agentic, and workload identities while managing real-time systems processing tens of millions of daily requests. Your work involves creating tools that leverage LLMs, code generation, and intelligent agents to streamline delivery, alongside providing SDKs and documentation for developer self-service. The role requires expertise in Go, Python, Kubernetes, and containers, with a focus on high availability and low latency. You will navigate complex technical challenges involving distributed high throughput systems and modern protocols like OAuth 2.0, JWT, SpiceDB, and OpenFGA to ensure secure access across the firm's diverse infrastructure and trading stack.
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Java
C++
C#
Go
RESTful APIs
Microservices
Oracle Cloud Infrastructure
distributed-systems
Containers
Source Control
Observability
Service Reliability Engineering
SDKs
API Design