Platform Engineer - Core Platforms

Budapest, District V. - hybrid work model (2 days/week on-site)

Our partner, a global, US-based investment firm, is looking for talented individuals to contribute to data-driven strategies across international markets by analyzing inefficiencies and generating predictive alpha signals. The company fosters a collaborative, intellectually curious culture where great ideas are welcomed. Technologists play a key role in building their own platforms while collaborating with researchers and portfolio managers through high-impact engineering.

Platform Engineer - Core Platforms

They are seeking a highly skilled Platform Engineer to join their dynamic team. The ideal candidate will have a strong background in system deployment and maintenance, with a keen eye for detail and a proactive approach to problem-solving. This role involves ensuring the stability and efficiency of their deployment processes, as well as developing and implementing fixes for any issues that arise.

Requirements

• Exceptional systems development skills (Python/C/C++/go/rust)
• Strong systems integration skills (including http protocols, Kerberos, API programming).
• Experience providing secure APIs for system management and integration.
• Solid understanding and hands on experience working with Linux based systems.
• Strong working knowledge of container orchestration technologies such as K8S (preferred), and cluster management (E.g. Slurm)
• Experience with infrastructure as a code and related tools such as Helm, Ansible, Terraform.
• Hands-on knowledge with containerization systems such as Docker or Podman.
• Experience with CI/CD, GitLab (preferred), GitHub or Git.
• Experience with agile development.
• Experience with monitoring and logging systems such as Prometheus, Grafana, and the ELK stack.
• A great team attitude (their job is to make life easier for other teams!).
• Strong written and verbal communication skills in English.

Responsibilities

• Architect and develop services that work at scale, for multiple customers using custom developed and Open Source software.
• Work within the team on the various products that the team supports.
• Develop tools to improve their ability to rapidly deploy and effectively monitor services in a large-scale distributed environment.
• Work with teams to design, develop, and implement innovative software solutions related to the DevOps and Agile transformation of the enterprise.
• Participate in periodic on-call duties
• Collaborate with peers both inside and outside your team

Our partner offers

• Core benefits include premium private health insurance and life insurance with savings plan  
• Support for every aspect of life through Employee Assistance Program and fully covered sick leave 
• Strong culture of learning and development: training courses, library, guest speakers, share and learn events, global conferences 
• Regular offsite team buildings, annual conferences and occasional global summits – opportunity to travel and connect with their local and global teams 
• Employee resources groups with strong diversity and inclusion culture

Software Development