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Platform Services Engineer
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Platform Services Engineer

A Career with Point72’s Technology Team

As Point72 reimagines the future of investing, our Technology group is constantly improving our company’s IT infrastructure, positioning us at the forefront of a rapidly evolving technology landscape. We’re a team of experts experimenting, discovering new ways to harness the power of open source solutions, and embracing enterprise agile methodology. We encourage professional development to ensure you bring innovative ideas to our products while satisfying your own intellectual curiosity.  

 

What you’ll do

As a member of the Platform Services Engineering Team, you will be responsible for building and maintaining best in class large-scale platforms and services used across the Firm for messaging, log aggregation, and data analytics. In this role you will have the opportunity to work closely various application development teams utilizing these services and guide them in application design, architecture, and modernization. Some of the services currently managed by this team include Confluent Kafka for messaging, Elasticsearch, and Apache airflow.  

 

  • Build and maintain shared platform services like Kafka and Elasticsearch clusters. Build lab environments for testing system upgrades and performance tuning
  • Build monitoring and instrumentation in Datadog APM dashboards and use information acquired from it to proactively fine tune systems to ensure highest performance, throughput
  • Create run books and documentation for Platform Support teams providing level 1 support
  • Develop and publish best practices and reference applications demonstrating proper use of the platforms
  • Assist application development teams in troubleshooting application integration and performance issues with these services
  • Ensure systems are fully compliant with InfoSec, Compliance, and Change Control policies and procedures

 

 

What’s required

We’re looking for someone with demonstrable experience in building and maintaining enterprise grade Kafka, Elasticsearch/ELK, or Apache Airflow clusters. You need to be proficient in one or programming languages (Java/C#/Python/JavaScript/C++) and well versed in modern SDLC processes and software development tools/architectures.

 

  • 4+ years of engineering experience in building and maintaining large scale Kafka, Elasticsearch, or Apache Airflow environments
  • 3+ Experience with modern DevOps/IT Automation tools like Jenkins, Terraform, Ansible, CloudFormation, Kubernetes
  • Experience building solutions in public cloud (AWS/GCP)
  • Demonstrated experience in planning and executing big infrastructure/platform buildouts and onboarding users/teams
  • Excellent analytical and troubleshooting skills
  • Willingness to learn other technologies as needed
  • Commitment to the highest ethical standards

 

We take care of our people

We invest in our people, their careers, their health, and their well-being. When you work here, we provide:

 

  • Sports card
  • Private life insurance
  • Private medical and dental care, with vision allowance
  • Private pension scheme
  • Volunteer opportunities
  • Support for employee-led affinity groups representing women, people of color and the LGBT+ community
  • Business travel accident insurance
  • Employee assistance program
  • Educational assistance reimbursement

 

About Point72

Point72 Asset Management is a global firm led by Steven Cohen that invests in multiple asset classes and strategies worldwide. Resting on more than a quarter-century of investing experience, we seek to be the industry’s premier asset manager through delivering superior risk-adjusted returns, adhering to the highest ethical standards, and offering the greatest opportunities to the industry’s brightest talent.

Our Warsaw office gives us access to world-class talent with a reputation for excellence and innovation. We’re looking to build an office of subject-matter experts whose fresh perspectives will help evolve our infrastructure and advance the capabilities of our teams. Learn more at http://point72.com/Warsaw