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