Senior Cloud Platform Engineer

Belvedere Trading is a leading proprietary trading firm proudly headquartered in downtown Chicago. Our traders work hard to provide liquidity to the market through their market-making activities and are the masters of a diverse set of commodities, interest rates, exchange-traded funds (ETF), and equity index options. From the beginning, we began iteratively investing in our proprietary technology and committing to building our systems from the ground up. Our trading models and software systems are continually re-engineered, optimized, and maintained to stay on top of the industry. This wouldn’t be possible without the dedicated efforts of our technology teams who utilize and perfect our innovative technology solutions.    High-performance proprietary development is the source of our success and competitive advantage at Belvedere, further fueling our passion for performance. We are a team driven by intellectual curiosity, seeking answers that will change not only how we trade in this technological age, but also the future landscape of the trading industry. We place a high premium on defining, developing, and deploying high-performance trading software using a team-based, holistic development approach. We look for passionate team members that excel and their contribution is critical to our continued success.

We are currently looking for a Senior Cloud Platform Engineer to help drive the design and implementation of our ever-growing Application Development Platform. As a Senior Engineer, you will be integral in shaping the direction of our cloud architecture and strategy.  We look to provide a cohesive development environment to empower other teams to build amazing applications that drive trading decisions.  We focus on automating workflows and building/using core cloud products to help stitch together a platform that makes developers more effective and efficient.

What You'll Do

• Design and develop integrated solutions with automated tests to validate your changes
• Expand and enhance existing systems in the domains of Continuous Integration and Delivery, Infrastructure as Code, Job Orchestration, Development Environment Automation, Stream Processing Infrastructure, and IAM and Data Governance.
• Own a solution from inception to delivery through receiving feedback from stakeholders, documenting design decisions, and establishing monitoring and long-term maintainability
• Treat internal development teams as customers and regularly communicate with them to help deliver a high-quality platform that empowers teams to become self-serviced.
• Monitor and improve our FinOps strategy by getting cloud cost data into development teams’ hands
• Expand your knowledge of all things that help other developers/quants be more effective
• Express your unique knowledge base to other team members to help us make better products and break established assumptions on how things should work
• Listen and learn from other team members to level up your design and development skills

What You'll Need

• 5+ years of relevant Cloud Development and Architecture Design (Kubernetes)
• 2+ years of a proven track record of delivering development platforms
• 2+ years of experience with Terraform and Google Cloud Platform (or equivalent)
• Experience with multiple languages (polyglot) with a focus on Python as well as at least one statically typed language (C++, C#, Java, etc)
• An understanding of development techniques and best practices for refactoring and designing highly maintainable code
• Ability to take full ownership (design, implement, test, deploy, maintain) of projects
• Strong written and verbal communication skills
• Possess an entrepreneurial spirit

Nice to have

• 2+ years of experience with BigQuery
• Experience with Job Orchestration Services like Apache Airflow
• Familiarity with ArgoCD and Helm Charts
• “You were born to deploy Kubernetes clusters”