Platform Engineer (Hybrid) 2/3 days in Chicago Office

The role

You will design ways of working and hosted developer environments for Chicago teams. You will build systems that allow teams to deploy their own applications to Kubernetes clusters.

What you will do

• Understand Chicago team requirements and turn them into platform requirements
• Design hosted developer environments and paths to production
• Recommend applications of existing tools and push back on wrong solutions
• Follow through across timezones to prevent stalling
• Handle production problems in US hours that cannot wait for London
• Contribute to the shared platform using one repository and one set of standards
• Work with Chicago Linux, network and storage teams on cluster and host issues

Required qualifications

• Around six years in a platform, SRE, DevOps or development role
• Comfortable working with traders, researchers and developers
• Able to recommend a direction and say no when an ask is unreasonable
• Persistent follow-up
• Production Kubernetes experience
• Comfortable with GitOps
• Able to write code to automate work

Nice to have

• Experience in a trading firm, or another environment where the users of the platform are close to the business
• Judgment about when to decide locally and when to wait for the rest of the team
• Coder, Gitpod, Codespaces, or another hosted developer environment
• Kubernetes on-premises or on bare metal
• Observability stacks you have operated: Prometheus, Thanos, Grafana, OpenTelemetry or similar
• Experience in a new or growing regional team
• Experience using AI-powered tools to improve efficiency and workflows

Benefits

• Great engineering environment
• Upside of start-up without the associated risks
• Great, friendly, informal, and highly rewarding culture
• Informal dress code
• Loads of free food and social events
• Fast-growing global firm with plenty of opportunity

About the company

Maven is a market-leading proprietary trading firm deploying its own capital across discretionary, systematic, and market-making strategies. Technology is central to how the firm trades.