Senior Platform Engineer
Verition Group LLC
Salary undisclosed
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Description
Firm Overview
Verition Fund Management LLC (“Verition”) is a multi-strategy, multi-manager hedge fund founded in 2008. Verition focuses on global investment strategies including Fixed Income & Macro, Event & Multi-Asset RV, Equity L/S & Capital Markets, and Quantitative Trading.
Department Overview
The Technology and Strats (Quant) teams build and operate the engineering platform behind the firm's investment activity and business functions globally. Working alongside the investment teams to create edge in research, portfolio construction, execution and risk management, and applying machine learning and AI across both the investment process and the firm's platform operations. Strategic Analytics ("Strats"), with its quantitative researchers and developers, partner directly with Portfolio Managers and the businesses on strategy-specific research, models, signals, backtesting and execution, while building the shared pricing, analytics and research infrastructure used across strategies. The core Technology teams own the firm's market, reference and alternative data platform; the infrastructure including cloud, compute, developer tooling, security and connectivity that everything at the firm runs on.
Role Overview
As a Senior Platform Engineer, you’ll design and build the systems that underpin Verition’s engineering platform. Working as part of a global team, you’ll own substantial pieces of shared projects across cloud infrastructure, Kubernetes, provisioning, and developer tooling. This role calls for an engineer who can move from design through implementation independently, collaborate closely with colleagues in New York, and respond to infrastructure issues when needed.
Responsibilities
- Design, build, and improve platform services and infrastructure used by engineering and investment teams globally.
- Own significant pieces of shared engineering projects, from technical design and implementation through deployment and operation.
- Build software and automation for infrastructure provisioning, service deployment, and day-to-day platform operations.
- Design and improve Kubernetes clusters and the systems used to deploy internal services.
- Contribute across cloud engineering, developer tooling, security, storage, and networking as projects require.
- Improve the reliability and observability of platform services; investigate and resolve production issues.
Qualifications
- 5+ years of experience in systems or platform engineering
- Experience with cloud infrastructure, Kubernetes, and deploying internal services.
- Experience developing automation or tooling for provisioning, deployment, or infrastructure operations.
- Ability to design and deliver complex engineering work independently, exercise sound judgment, and take ownership through production.
- Comfort working across multiple infrastructure domains and learning unfamiliar systems when a project calls for it.
- Experience with developer tooling, security engineering, storage, networking, or distributed systems is useful.
- Experience with Kafka or other data streaming infrastructure is a plus.
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
- High level of intellectual curiosity, strong work ethic, and a keen attention to detail.
- Ability to work effectively in a team-oriented, fast-paced, and dynamic environment.
Benefits
- stock options
About this role
Verition's Technology and Strats teams operate the engineering backbone for a global multi-strategy hedge fund, combining infrastructure, quantitative research, and investment systems. As a Senior Platform Engineer in Hong Kong, you'd own substantial pieces of the shared platform that serves both engineering and investment teams worldwide—designing and building cloud infrastructure, Kubernetes systems, provisioning automation, and developer tooling that directly enable the firm's research, trading, and risk management.
The role demands someone with at least five years of systems or platform engineering experience who can move from technical design through implementation and production operation independently. You'll need solid grounding in cloud infrastructure, Kubernetes, and deployment automation, with comfort spanning multiple domains like security, storage, networking, and distributed systems. Experience with data streaming platforms like Kafka is valued. Beyond technical depth, the position requires the judgment to own complex work end-to-end, strong communication skills, and the ability to collaborate closely with colleagues in New York while responding to infrastructure issues as they arise.
This is a full-time, in-office role suited to an engineer who thrives in fast-paced, team-oriented environments and wants to build systems that directly impact a firm's core operations. If you have the platform engineering foundation and appetite for working across multiple infrastructure domains in a hedge fund setting, this could be a strong fit.
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