Python Infrastructure Developer

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