# Senior Software Engineer, Execution Engineering

**Company:** [The Voleon Group](https://hotfix.jobs/companies/voleon)
**Location:** Remote
**Role:** DevOps / SRE
**Salary:** $225k – $255k/yr
**Experience:** 5+ years
**Skills:** AWS, Azure, GCP, Kubernetes, Docker, Terraform, CloudFormation, Prometheus, Grafana, CloudWatch
**Posted:** 2026-03-18

> Develops production trading systems and data pipelines for machine learning in finance, designing real-time distributed systems, integrating markets, owning observability, and leading cross-team projects. Requires 5+ years in scalable distributed systems and cloud expertise.

## Job Description

## Responsibilities
- Design real-time distributed trading systems that place orders across a global set of markets and asset classes
- Integrate with new assets and markets and drive clarity on the resulting requirements
- Take ownership of entire outcomes, and continue to support and grow them through iteration, documentation, and testing
- Own observability and remediation tooling used to analyze trading performance and risk
- Improve the resilience and performance of our trading systems
- Participate in on-call rotations and drive incident response, root-cause analysis, and postmortems
- Lead projects spanning a number of engineering teams and collaborate with non-engineering stakeholders
- Mentor and develop other engineers on the team, and share your practices and knowledge with the team and company

## Requirements
- **Bachelor’s, Master’s, or Doctorate degree** in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field (or equivalent experience)
- **5+ years** of software engineering experience architecting and operationalizing high-performance, scalable, reliable, and resilient distributed systems
- Proven expertise in building cloud-native, distributed systems on **AWS**, **Azure**, or **GCP**
- Demonstrated experience with modern cloud technologies and data observability tools (**CloudWatch**, **Grafana**, **Prometheus**), and **Infrastructure-as-Code** (**CloudFormation**, **Terraform**)
- Experience designing telemetry standards (structured logs, metrics, distributed traces) and building dashboards and actionable alerting
- Comfortable working in a containerized environment with **Docker**, **Kubernetes**, etc.
- Strong coding, analytical, debugging, and troubleshooting skills including use of industry standard tools
- Great at communicating and influencing stakeholders

## Preferred Qualifications
- Familiarity with the trading domain; experience in trading/execution systems (**Order Management Systems**, market data, order lifecycle)
- Demonstrated ability to leverage **AI tools** to enhance productivity, streamline workflows, and support decision-making
- Track record mentoring engineers and leading technical direction

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