Squarepoint · 18 hours ago
Platform Engineer - Reliability
Houston, TX
Full-time
Onsite
Mid, Senior Level
4+ years expSquarepoint is seeking a Platform Reliability Specialist to ensure the stability and performance of their shared platform services. This role involves collaborating with various stakeholders to enhance system reliability through operational improvements, automation, and engineering best practices.
Financial Services
Hiring Manager
Kit Lofthouse
Responsibilities
Own and improve day‑to‑day platform operations by streamlining workflows and enhancing on‑call ergonomics through better automations and runbooks
Work with service owners to apply engineering principles to improve resilience and performance: harden critical services against degradation and outages
Build and maintain platform tools, automation, and GitOps workflows that make it easy for teams to deploy, operate, and observe their services with minimal friction and operational overhead
Capture and share reliability knowledge through documentation, runbooks, and post‑incident reviews
Help define and evolve reliability standards and best practices across the platform
Qualification
Required
4+ years in SRE, Production Engineering, or Reliability Engineering roles with direct ownership of production systems
Experience with system administration and troubleshooting (Linux, Bash, containers)
Software development experience with Python, version control (Git), and CI/CD systems
Hands‑on experience with observability systems including metrics, tracing, log pipelines, and alert design
Demonstrated experience running systems at scale, including performance tuning, HA/DR architectures, and resilience engineering
Preferred
Expertise in a modern observability stack (e.g., Prometheus, Grafana, ELK, VictoriaMetrics)
Experience operating enterprise platform software such as Kubernetes clusters, GitLab at scale, or Slurm environments
Familiarity with messaging systems (Kafka/RabbitMQ), service discovery (Consul), and databases (PostgreSQL, ClickHouse, Redis)
Experience authoring runbooks, running failure/chaos experiments, and participating in DR exercises
Infrastructure automation and configuration management experience (e.g., Ansible, Terraform, Puppet)
Company
Squarepoint
Squarepoint is a leading global investment management firm that develops quantitative investment strategies to achieve high quality returns for our clients.
1001-5000 employees
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