# Staff Software Engineer, Batch and Realtime Streaming

**Company:** [The Voleon Group](https://hotfix.jobs/companies/voleon)
**Location:** Remote
**Role:** Data Engineering
**Salary:** $315k – $405k/yr
**Experience:** 10+ years
**Skills:** Python, Go, Airflow, Spark, Ray, Iceberg, Postgres, MySQL, Cassandra, Duckdb, Rest, gRPC, pandas, Polars, Dask
**Posted:** 2026-05-15

> Architect and build Voleon’s batch and realtime streaming platform that powers ML research and production trading systems. Requires 10+ years experience building scalable data infrastructure with Python, Go, and distributed systems.

## Job Description

## Responsibilities
- Architect, design, and implement core components for a Batch and Realtime Streaming platform, including data ingestion pipelines, storage systems, serving layers, and API interfaces
- Ship new features by collaborating across research, legal, trading, finance operations data, and infra teams for trading systems
- Collaborate with ML researchers and data scientists to understand their workflows and design intuitive interfaces (APIs, SDKs, UIs) for seamless feature discovery, access, and reuse
- Ensure data quality, consistency, and lineage for features, building robust mechanisms for versioning, monitoring, and governance
- Optimize data pipelines and storage for high performance, scalability, and reliability, considering both batch and real-time use cases
- Drive adoption of the feature store across teams by producing documentation, onboarding materials, and developer support
- Mentor junior engineers and contribute to team best practices and technical excellence

## Requirements
- Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field (or equivalent experience)
- 10+ years of software engineering experience, with a strong background in distributed computing and data infrastructure
- Experience in programming languages such as Python and Go
- Understanding of database technologies (Postgres, MySQL, Cassandra, DuckDB) and experience with APIs (REST/gRPC)
- Strong problem-solving skills, with a focus on delivering high-quality, maintainable, and well-documented solutions
- Excellent communication and collaboration skills; ability to work closely with both engineering and research teams

## Preferred Qualifications
- Experience building large-scale data pipelines and storage systems (e.g., Airflow, Spark, Ray, Iceberg, etc)
- Exposure to modern Python data science tooling (pandas, polars, dask, duckdb, etc)
- Experience with monitoring and observability tools for distributed systems (e.g., Prometheus, Grafana, ELK Stack)
- Prior experience working with feature stores (e.g., Feast, Hopsworks, or custom solutions)

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