Engineering Team Lead - BQuant Cloud Platform
San Francisco, CA
Posted Jul 27, 2023 - Requisition No. 117727
BQuant is Bloomberg’s cutting edge financial research and data science platform. With the tremendous growth of market data and the increasing sophistication of machine learning and quantitative methods, finance is quickly becoming a business where only the best capitalized firms can compete. BQuant’s mission is to change that, by empowering researchers and investment decision makers around the world with the sophisticated tools that are currently only available to the largest investment firms.
See what people are saying about BQuant:
Bloomberg founder, Mike Bloomberg: https://tinyurl.com/mike-bquant
Bloomberg CTO, Shawn Edwards: https://tinyurl.com/shawn-bquant
Bloomberg tech blog: https://tinyurl.com/bquant-platform
Users can perform financial research using Jupyter and Spark, and we are adding features such as managed storage, Git and ReST services. Ultimately we aim to provide a complete catalog of managed services that could be used to run an investment business.
The Cloud Platform team is responsible for providing a “platform as a service” - we provide both infrastructure for the rest of the engineering group, and infrastructure capabilities that form part of the product. The teams’ work is a combination of Terraform development in AWS, and Golang development in Kubernetes.
Some examples of recent and upcoming projects:
- Building a data sandbox using Cilium
- Identity federation
- Building automation to provision managed services such as S3 repeatably and scalably
- Private networking between customers and our cloud offering using Bloomberg’s private network
- Cross-cloud private networking
- Providing low level APIs for other teams to deploy software on Kubernetes
We are developing and scaling the product quickly (30x growth during 2022) and have interesting challenges across the gamut of cloud, networking, APIs, security, automation, observability, reliability engineering and organizational growth.
We are looking for a seasoned team leader to help us grow.
We’ll trust you to:
- Help the team iterate quickly as we grow the product
- Work hands on where necessary
- Collaborate extensively with other engineering teams, product managers and the CTO office
- Foster a technically outstanding, welcoming and collaborative working environment
- Mentor and develop junior engineers
- Hire great colleagues
- Treat security and automation as first class features
You'll need to have:
- Significant experience working in a cloud native environment, using a modern technology stack
- Proficiency in one or more programming languages such as Golang
- Experience operating infrastructure in production
- 5+ years of hands on software engineering or SRE experience
- 2+ years experience of leadership, managing and coaching teams and influencing third party technology strategy
- A Degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Mathematics, similar field of study or equivalent work experience
We’d love to see:
- Experience with our tech stack: AWS, Argo, Kubernetes, Golang, Terraform, Cilium
- Experience with authentication and IAM
- Experience building and operating Software as a Service (SaaS) or Platform as a Service (PaaS) products
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Salary Range: 200,000 - 300,000 USD Annually + Benefits + Bonus