Linux Infrastructure Engineer in Vancouver

We deliver foundational systems that shape the future of how technology is used in a top performing quantitative equity fund that manages over $78+ billion USD in financial assets. This is a fantastic opportunity in the exciting intersection of finance and technology where investment decisions are made using technology. Quantitative equity funds use programmed investment strategies and as a result, our technology team is crucial to its success. The team is headquartered and deeply rooted in West Coast Vancouver. We place high value on maintaining an entrepreneurial spirit and creating a culture where each of us has opportunities to succeed. What You Will Do The technology infrastructure team plays an essential role through innovative technologies on our hybrid (on-premise and cloud based) platform: distributed computing, petabyte-scale data storage, containerization, non-traditional high-performance databases, process orchestration, monitoring, data visualization and DevOps. You own the entire technology infrastructure life cycle: Engineer and support software and systems infrastructure. Introduce new foundational technologies that advance our software engineering capabilities to the next level. Collaborate with our software development teams on support issues and improvements to our infrastructure tools, processes, and software. Act as a conduit between our application development teams, and IT, network security, and other stakeholders to align priorities and translate business requirements into technical designs. Improve systems infrastructure reliability. Gather and analyze metrics from operating systems and applications to assist in performance tuning, fault finding and business continuity planning. Design, plan and implement solutions in an entrepreneurial spirit. What You Bring Programming Knowledge – you have an undergraduate, graduate, or post-graduate degree in a computer-related field OR exceptional programming skills gain

ROLE DESCRIPTION: We’re looking for a Senior Platform Backend Developer who can help us support the development organization to deliver value to customers in a reliable, efficient, and safe manner. You’ll be working in a focused team that owns one or more pieces of the production application environment and the developer experience, you will own and deliver in service of quarterly goals on the team. ABOUT THE TEAM: This role is within our Backend Platform team. The team primarily uses Go, Scala, and PHP and has expertise in technologies such as Kafka, various AWS services, and some infrastructure-as-code tools. Your primary focus will be on developing services and tools for our product development teams as well as modernizing our existing platform. Based out of British Columbia, you will report to the Senior Manager, Software Development, DevOps. WHAT YOU’LL DO: Design and build software - tools, libraries, automation, services, and glue scripts Responsible for the reliability, security, and integrity of our large, cloud-based platform Participate in a flexible on-call rotation Lead by owning project milestones, epics or features Practice continuous improvement, contributing to culture, process, and direction in your team and across our department Develop processes and automation to eliminate repetitive tasks Design and build our infrastructure platform Identify and implement new platform features Research and evaluate new technologies Refactor, rewrite or retire existing platform features Operate our developer experience and production application environments Diagnose and repair our distributed systems Perform maintenance, upgrades, and migrations Control or eliminate repetitive tasks, alert noise, and business-as-usual work Enable development teams Provide executable interfaces to our infrastructure platform Provide tools and best practices to support the entire software development lifecycle Collaborate with others across the orga