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Director, Principal Platform Engineer (Compute)

BlackRock · New York, NY · 2 mo ago
Information Technology$8/hrFull-time

About the role

At BlackRock, we are looking for Engineers who like to innovate and solve complex problems. We recognize that strength comes from diversity, and will embrace your unique skills, curiosity, drive, and passion while giving you the opportunity to grow technically and as an individual. With over USD $8 trillion of assets, our technology empowers millions of investors to save for retirement, pay for college, buy a home, and improve their financial wellbeing.

Being a developer at BlackRock means you get the best of both worlds: working for one of the most advanced financial companies and being part of an engineering team responsible for next-generation technology and solutions.

Team Overview

This position requires a unique blend of hands-on systems knowledge, software development skills, and team leadership. The global System Operations Platform team is a sizable team of over 50 individuals located in six different regions that perform engineering and operational work in support of critical infrastructure hosted on-prem and on cloud. Our team is on the front lines migrating the Aladdin Platform to the cloud and containers. We are in search of a Principal Engineer to help lead Compute engineering.

This role requires a visionary leader and hands-on builder who is also able to collaborate globally to drive architecture and engineering excellence across the breadth of our organization. We seek a multi-disciplinary expert with a strong desire to mentor and effect organizational change.

You are

  • Curious and eager to learn new things, with a healthy disrespect for the status quo.
  • A big thinker, willing to tackle projects that require both technical and organizational creativity to be successful.
  • Passionate about technology, with personal ownership for the work you do.
  • Data-focused, with an eye for the details that matter to solve the problem.
  • A leader who invests as much time in architecting engineering practices as they do in the technology itself.

We are

  • Passionate about building quality teams and scaling our technology to meet the needs of tomorrow.
  • Building solutions for BlackRock and over 100 organizations who use our technology.
  • Developing in Java, Go, Python with a strong bias towards Containers, Cloud-Native distributed containerized microservice orchestration, and emerging IaC technologies.
  • Product-oriented with a drive towards continuous integration and deployment with a focus on incremental innovation.

Requirements

  • Minimum of 10–15 years software or systems engineering work experience on large-scale systems development and deployment.
  • BA/BS in Computer Science (or similar) from an accredited university (or in lieu of degree, 4+ years of relevant work experience).
  • Experience in a Linux environment with Enterprise-grade container orchestration platform supporting declarative infrastructure and horizontal scaling/containers experience.
  • Experience with cloud deployment technology tools (Open Container Initiative (OCI) container packaging and runtime, Automation tools for configuration management and deployment, Infrastructure as Code (IaC) tools for provisioning cloud resources, Crossplane, etc.).
  • Familiarity with modern DevOps / CI/CD, Observability, and Agile SDLC is required.
  • Team lead skills with experience leading global teams, defining strategic architectures, implementing process transformation, and driving projects to completion.

Skills

Software Requirements

  • Strong programming skills in Python, Go, Java, or similar.
  • Expert experience with modern Infrastructure as Code platforms such as IaC tools for provisioning cloud resources, declarative infrastructure lifecycle management control planes, or Pulumi.
  • Proficient leading Agile development processes.
  • Architectural leadership experience using industry-accepted best practices (e.g., RFC and ADR documents).

Systems Requirements

  • Knowledge of RHEL 8+.
  • Experience in Cloud Environments, with a preference for Azure and AWS although Google Cloud knowledge is also valuable.
  • Experience with Infrastructure as Code (IaC) tools for provisioning cloud resources/containers including foundational elements (e.g., CNI/CSI) and related technologies (e.g., container registry).
  • Skills in security and performance monitoring and analysis using industry-standard tools (e.g., standardized telemetry instrumentation and data export frameworks).
  • Conceptual understanding of storage and networking components.

Pay

For New York, NY, the salary range for this position is USD $215,000.00 - USD $275,000.00. Additionally, employees are eligible for an annual discretionary bonus, and benefits including healthcare, leave benefits, and retirement benefits. BlackRock operates a pay-for-performance compensation philosophy and your total compensation may vary based on role, location, and firm, department, and individual performance.

Benefits

  • A strong retirement plan.
  • Tuition reimbursement.
  • Comprehensive healthcare.
  • Support for working parents.
  • Flexible Time Off (FTO) so you can relax, recharge, and be there for the people you care about.

Schedule

BlackRock’s hybrid work model requires employees to work at least 4 days in the office per week, with the flexibility to work from home 1 day a week. Some business groups may require more time in the office due to their roles and responsibilities. New joiners can count on this hybrid model to accelerate their learning and onboarding experience.

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