Software Infrastructure Engineer

We’re looking for a uniquely talented software engineer to join our world-class team. PDTers are creative, energetic, friendly, entrepreneurial, and collaborative. If you could walk around our office, you’d see that we’re a focused, intent, and nimble company with none of the attitude and bureaucracy of a stereotypical Wall Street trading firm. Our engineers love to work on challenging and complicated problems, and in return, they have a chance to make a direct impact on our bottom line. For the right talent, there is fantastic growth potential. 

An efficient and well-tooled engineering team is crucial to a successful quantitative trading firm, and as a member of PDT’s Software Infra team you’ll design and build our next generation software development platform, ensuring our engineering team has access to best-in-class tools and you’ll act as a force multiplier to all engineers within PDT.

As a SI engineer, you’ll:

• Cultivate an understanding of our developers and build relationships across all of engineering.
• Design a developer experience that finds the sweet spot between developer and platform velocity.
• Identify gaps in our ecosystem and coordinate across the Platform organization to solve user needs.
• Build and maintain developer tools, infrastructure as code, and CI/CD leveraging open-source and third party software.

Why join us?  PDT Partners has a stellar twenty-seven-year track record and a reputation for excellence. Our goal is to be the best quantitative investment manager in the world—measured by the quality of our products, not their size.  PDT’s very high employee-retention rate speaks for itself.  Our people are intellectually extraordinary and our community is close-knit, down-to-earth, and diverse.

Preferred Qualifications

• 5+ years of experience establishing and advocating engineering best practices across diverse engineering teams
• Significant experience programming in one or more of Python, Golang, or C++
• Ability to collaborate with a larger team on design innovations
• Keen debugging, problem-solving, and optimization skills 
• Pragmatic and mature approach to technology