Job Description
WorldQuant develops and deploys systematic financial strategies across a broad range of asset classes and global markets. We seek to produce high-quality predictive signals (alphas) through our proprietary research platform to employ financial strategies focused on market inefficiencies. Our teams work collaboratively to drive the production of alphas and financial strategies – the foundation of a balanced, global investment platform.
WorldQuant is built on a culture that pairs academic sensibility with accountability for results. Employees are encouraged to think openly about problems, balancing intellectualism and practicality. Excellent ideas come from anyone, anywhere. Employees are encouraged to challenge conventional thinking and possess an attitude of continuous improvement.
Our goal is to hire the best and the brightest. We value intellectual horsepower first and foremost, and people who demonstrate an outstanding talent. There is no roadmap to future success, so we need people who can help us build it.
Technologists at WorldQuant research, design, code, test and deploy firmwide platforms and tooling while working collaboratively with researchers and portfolio managers. Our environment is relaxed yet intellectually driven. We seek people who think in code and are motivated by being around like-minded people.
The Role: We are looking for a Python Infrastructure Developer to join our WorldQuant Aligned Infrastructure team to help build our next-gen automation and self-service tooling. The successful candidate will be responsible for delivering high-quality, reliable, and scalable infrastructure solutions and self-service tools for our rapidly growing internal users.
The team is comprised of multidisciplinary individuals with unrestricted access across a large environment. We believe that one cannot build a truly great service without the ability to make changes across the stack. We take great care in focusing on solving real business problems, reducing operational overhead and working together as a team.
Responsibilities
- Drive end-to-end infrastructure automation
- Design, develop, test, and implement high-quality and scalable solutions
- Evaluate and recommend tools, technologies and processes to ensure the highest quality product platform
- Implement orchestration on top of Infrastructure as Code (IaC) automation
- Oversight and maintenance of complex distributed systems
- Building backend APIs, event-driven systems, CLIs and reusable packages
- Participate in the design and implementation of CI/CD pipelines
- Perform code reviews and promote best practices
- Optimize for async collaboration with our global team
Ideal Candidate
- An exceptional infrastructure software engineer, committed to developing high quality code and infrastructure solutions
- A collaborative team player with superior communication and problem-solving skills
- Driven by curiosity, always ready to learn, explore, and put new technologies to the test with clear set objectives
Required Skills / Experience
- Proven experience as a Systems Engineer, Infrastructure Developer or similar role in software development
- In-depth knowledge of Python, with the ability to tackle complex programming challenges
- Experience with infrastructure as code (IaC) automation tools such as Ansible, SaltStack and Terraform
- Hands on experience with API development
- Experience with designing and implementing CI/CD pipelines
- Deep understanding of complex distributed systems architectures
- Excellent problem-solving skills and attention to details
- Continuously pursue automation opportunities
- Ability to communicate complex concepts clearly with both stake holders and developers
What We Offer:
- Competitive compensation package
- Core benefits include: premium private health insurance and life insurance with savings plan
- Support for every aspect of life through Employee Assistance Program and fully covered sick leave
- Strong culture of learning and development: training courses, library, guest speakers, share and learn events, global conferences
- Regular offsite team buildings, annual conferences and occasional global summits – opportunity to travel and connect with our local and global teams
- Employee resources groups with strong diversity and inclusion culture
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