# Software Engineer, Strategy Research Analytics

**Company:** [The Voleon Group](https://hotfix.jobs/companies/voleon)
**Location:** Remote
**Role:** Data Engineering
**Salary:** $230k – $295k/yr
**Experience:** 3+ years
**Skills:** Python, SQL, Airflow, Presto, Spark, Parquet, Orc, AWS, Slurm, Unix, Data Modeling, Data Lineage, Metadata Management, Data Governance, Schema Design
**Posted:** 2026-08-11

> Build and evolve reliable analytics infrastructure, pipelines, schemas, and foundational datasets supporting quantitative research across strategies. The role requires strong Python and SQL skills, distributed data-platform experience, and ownership of observability, performance, and reproducibility.

## Job Description

## Responsibilities
- Own implementation and ongoing operation of recurring analytics pipelines, including Airflow DAGs, monitoring, alerting, and reliability improvements.
- Lead architectural evolution of the analytics platform, including schema standardization, DAG consolidation, and modernization of legacy workflows.
- Drive cross-team technical alignment when consolidating duplicated or inconsistent analytics outputs.
- Build and maintain foundational analytics tables and metrics with strong schema discipline and reproducible computation.
- Define and implement reliability standards, including SLOs, observability patterns, runbooks, incident response, and postmortems.
- Improve transparency and usability through documentation, discoverability, schema contracts, metadata, and data lineage.
- Optimize distributed compute and SQL query performance; design partitioning and file-sizing strategies for columnar storage.
- Mentor engineers through design reviews and promote operational and data-modeling rigor.

## Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or equivalent professional experience.
- 3+ years of experience building and operating analytics or data infrastructure systems.
- Strong proficiency in Python and SQL.
- Deep experience with distributed query engines and large-scale compute systems.
- Demonstrated ownership of large-scale or mission-critical data infrastructure.
- Strong data-modeling expertise, including schema design, partitioning strategy, and reproducibility considerations.
- Expertise in metadata management, data lineage, and robust data-governance principles.

## Preferred Qualifications
- Experience leading architectural migrations or major data-platform refactors.
- Familiarity with AWS cloud technologies and on-premises compute clusters, including Slurm, SSH, and Unix.
- Exposure to quantitative research or machine-learning environments.

## Compensation and Benefits
- Competitive compensation and benefits package.
- Daily catered lunches.
- Technology talks from company experts.

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