Kubernetes Engineer (Quant)

TL;DR

Kubernetes Engineer (Go/Python): Building and improving a large-scale container platform for a high-frequency quant firm with an accent on scheduling, orchestration, and multi-tenant environments. Focus on optimizing distributed systems performance, ensuring reliability of GPU workloads, and developing production-quality platform tooling.

Location: Hybrid in London Area, United Kingdom

Salary: Up to £150k + Bonus

Company

A highly technical, engineering-led firm operating within the quantitative trading space.

What you will do

• Build and improve core components of a Kubernetes-based platform supporting critical systems.
• Develop tooling and services for large-scale, multi-tenant environments.
• Optimize scheduling, orchestration, and performance of distributed systems.
• Enhance platform reliability, scalability, and overall efficiency.
• Collaborate closely with infrastructure and platform teams to improve engineering standards.
• Write production-quality code for high-throughput systems processing millions of workloads daily.

Requirements

• Strong software engineering background with proficiency in Go and/or Python.
• Proven experience managing Kubernetes in production environments.
• Experience building or working on large-scale distributed systems.
• Comfortable working within Linux-based environments.
• Ability to solve complex engineering problems at scale.
• Must be based in or able to work hybrid in the London Area.

Culture & Benefits

• Work within a high-throughput environment processing millions of workloads.
• Opportunity to work with large compute clusters and GPU workloads.
• Highly automated environment with continuous deployment.
• Permanent contract with competitive salary and bonus structure.