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Arrowstreet Capital, Limited Partnership · 1 day ago

Senior Platform Engineer, Enterprise Data

Boston, MA

Full-time

Onsite

Mid, Senior Level

$115K/yr - $325K/yr

5+ years exp

Arrowstreet Capital is a Boston-based systematic investment firm that manages global equity portfolios for institutional investors around the world. They are seeking a hands-on Engineer to play a crucial role in the design, automation, and operation of their enterprise data platform, contributing to the development and support of key services that facilitate valuable analytics from new data sources.

Financial ServicesVenture Capital

Growth Opportunities

H1B Sponsor Likely

Responsibilities

Develop end-to-end CI/CD for data applications, pipelines, and platform services using GitLab CI/CD (build, test, deploy, promote, rollback, environments)

Automate infrastructure provisioning, configuration, and compliance with Terraform (and related tooling), implementing modular, reusable IaC patterns and GitOps workflows

Design and operate a cloud-native data platform on AWS data services (networking, compute, storage, security), enabling scalable ingestion, processing, storage, and retrieval

Implement platform reliability practices: monitoring, logging, tracing, alerting and enhanced platform resiliency via a multi-region design

Build and maintain deployment pipelines and release management for data workflows (batch/streaming), APIs, and microservices

Standardize environments and packaging (Docker), manage Kubernetes (EKS) clusters, and optimize workload scheduling, autoscaling, and cost efficiency

Enforce security and compliance-by-design: IAM, least privilege, KMS/secrets management and aligning security best practices

Develop platform tooling and self-service interfaces that connect data producers to consumers (service templates, golden paths, catalogs, and SLAs)

Migrate and modernize legacy/on-prem data infrastructure to AWS, consolidating disparate systems into a unified, governed data layer

Drive continuous improvement: evaluate new tools, optimize performance and cost, reduce toil through automation, and champion best practices across teams

Qualification

PythonAWSCI/CDTerraformData EngineeringSQLDockerKubernetesData ModelingMonitoringAgile PracticesCommunication SkillsCollaboration Skills

Required

5+ years of professional experience in data engineering, DevOps, or related roles supporting data-centric systems

Strong programming skills in Python; experience with testing frameworks and software engineering best practices

Demonstrated expertise in SQL and data processing frameworks/libraries such as Spark and/or Pandas

Hands-on experience building complex, scalable data systems and pipelines (batch and/or streaming)

AWS experience with AWS services for data and compute (e.g., S3, EC2, Lambda, Glue/EMR, Redshift/RDS, IAM, VPC); 3+ years preferred

Proficiency with CI/CD and version control platforms (e.g., GitLab, GitHub, Jenkins), including pipeline design, automation, and troubleshooting

Infrastructure as Code (Terraform preferred); ability to provision, manage, and secure cloud resources via IaC

Experience with containerization and orchestration (Docker, Kubernetes)

Understanding of data storage technologies and modeling across databases, data warehouses, data lakes, and lakehouses; schema design and query optimization

Experience optimizing queries and manipulating/aggregating data, including point-in-time/temporal data semantics

Knowledge of monitoring and observability (e.g., CloudWatch, Prometheus/Grafana, ELK) for data pipelines and services

Solid grasp of system and data security practices, especially in regulated environments (IAM, KMS, least privilege, network controls)

Design skills; ability to design scalable, reliable data solutions

Communication and collaboration skills with a track record of building strong cross-functional relationships

Familiarity with agile and SecDevOps practices and workflows

Preferred

Experience with orchestration tools (e.g., Airflow, Prefect) for workflow management

Exposure to data Lakehouse patterns, data mesh concepts, and streaming technologies

Experience with additional languages for data/infra (e.g., Java, Scala, Rust, C#, C++)

Data quality, lineage, and governance tooling experience

Benefits

Annual discretionary bonuses

Robust benefits package

Company

Arrowstreet Capital, Limited Partnership

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Founded in 1999, Arrowstreet Capital is an independent private partnership based in Boston, Massachusetts.

Founded in 1999

Boston, Massachusetts, USA

201-500 employees

http://arrowstreetcapital.com

H1B Sponsorship

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