Senior Platform Engineer, Build & Developer Infrastructure
Tower Research CapitalAbout the Role
We are looking for a Senior Platform Engineer to help build, operate, and improve the software delivery and developer infrastructure platforms used by engineering teams working on large-scale C++ and Python applications. This role combines platform engineering, CI/CD, build systems, infrastructure automation, observability, artifact management, and developer productivity.
- Design and enhance tools that support developer productivity, systems infrastructure, and DevOps practices
- Maintain and improve build and release infrastructure for large-scale C++ and Python applications, including build tooling, dependency management, CI/CD integration, and artifact workflows
- Design, develop, and operate scalable CI/CD pipelines for build, test, artifact promotion, deployment, and release workflows
- Build and maintain infrastructure automation and configuration management solutions for platform services
- Improve observability for build, CI/CD, release, and platform services through centralized logging, metrics, tracing, and alerting
- Troubleshoot and optimize build, CI/CD, and developer infrastructure systems with a focus on performance, reliability, scalability, and security
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related discipline, or equivalent practical experience
- 7+ years of hands-on engineering experience building, operating, or improving software delivery, platform, infrastructure, CI/CD, DevOps, SRE, or developer productivity systems
- Strong Linux systems knowledge and troubleshooting skills
- Strong understanding of software build systems, especially for large C++ codebases; experience with CMake, Ninja, Bazel, Buck2, or similar tools
- Experience with Python packaging, dependency management, and environment management tools such as pip, conda, uv, pixi, or similar
- Experience building and operating CI/CD platforms, including pipeline design, build/test automation, artifact promotion, secrets handling, and failure diagnosis
- Experience with artifact repositories, binary/package distribution, and artifact lifecycle management using tools such as Artifactory, Nexus, Harbor, or similar
- Experience with infrastructure automation and configuration management tools such as Terraform, Ansible, or similar
- Experience with containerization technologies such as Docker or Podman; familiarity with orchestration platforms such as Kubernetes, Nomad, ECS, or similar
- Experience with cloud, hybrid, or on-premises infrastructure environments; AWS, GCP, Azure, or private infrastructure experience preferred
- Proficiency in Python and shell scripting
- Experience with Git and collaborative development workflows
- Strong understanding of networking fundamentals, including DNS, load balancing, TLS, HTTP, routing, and service discovery
- Practical understanding of distributed systems reliability concepts
- Experience gathering developer feedback and translating recurring pain points into self-service tooling, automation, documentation, or platform improvements
- Strong analytical and problem-solving skills with the ability to work in a fast-paced, globally distributed engineering environment
- Excellent communication and collaboration skills
- Preferred: Troubleshooting C++ build, linkage, dependency, ABI, compiler, linker, and toolchain issues in large codebases
- Preferred: Modernizing legacy build systems
- Preferred: Improving build reproducibility, reducing build times, or introducing remote caching / remote execution
- Preferred: Designing reproducible Python environments and internal package distribution workflows
- Preferred: Observability platforms such as Prometheus, Grafana, OpenTelemetry, OpenSearch, or similar
- Preferred: Workflow orchestration technologies such as Airflow
- Preferred: Familiarity with GitOps deployment methodologies
- Preferred: Building internal developer portals, self-service workflows, or paved-road developer platforms
- Preferred: Systems programming languages such as C++ and/or Rust
- Preferred: Familiarity with software supply chain security practices such as dependency provenance, vulnerability scanning, and secret management
- Preferred: Integrating AI-assisted development tools into engineering workflows while maintaining appropriate security, access control, and code review practices
What You'll Get
- $150k–$200k base salary
- Generous paid time off policies
- Savings plans and other financial wellness tools available in each region
- Hybrid working opportunities
- Free breakfast, lunch, and snacks daily
- In-office wellness experiences and reimbursement for select wellness expenses (e.g., gym, personal training and more)
- Company-sponsored sports teams and fitness events (JPM Corporate Challenge, Cycle for Survival, Wall Street Rides FAR and more)
- Volunteer opportunities and charitable giving
- Social events, happy hours, treats, and celebrations throughout the year
- Workshops and continuous learning opportunities