Senior Platform Engineer

Job Summary

About the role

Millennium's Infrastructure organization is dedicated to designing, engineering, supporting, and managing a robust server estate, systems virtualization, and core enterprise services. We are seeking a Senior Platforms Engineer to join a highly specialized team of exceptionally talented yet refreshingly humble individuals from diverse disciplines. We believe that delivering exceptional services requires the ability to make meaningful changes across the entire stack. Our mission is to solve real business challenges, reduce operational complexities, and foster a collaborative, team-driven environment that promotes mutual growth and success.

Responsibilities

• Design, code and implement proprietary systems and tools to help bring research ideas to life, and have a real business impact
• Collaborate daily with quantitative researchers to understand their needs and turn them into well-engineered solutions
• Contribute across the stack, primarily in Python with some work in C++
• Work through complex algorithmic and data-structure problems where correctness and performance both matter
• Participate in code reviews, design discussions, and promote engineering best practices
• Communicate trade-offs and technical decisions clearly with both engineers and quants

Requirements

• Strong Python skills - you're fluent, idiomatic, and can tackle complex programming challenges with confidence
• Strong foundation in data structures and algorithms - you can reason about complexity, pick the right approach, and implement it cleanly
• Demonstrable problem solving abilities, insight, and judgment as well as a strong attention to detail
• Ability to communicate complex technical concepts clearly with quants and other engineers - this is non-negotiable; a large part of the job is bridging the gap between research ideas and production code
• Experience working in Linux environment, at an advanced user level

Qualifications

• Prior exposure to quantitative finance, scientific computing, or any environment where engineers work closely with researchers
• Experience contributing to performance-sensitive or numerically oriented code

Skills

• Strong Python skills
• Strong foundation in data structures and algorithms
• Problem solving abilities
• Communication skills
• Linux experience

Benefits

The estimated base salary range for this position is $175,000 to $250,000, which is specific to New York and may change in the future. Millennium pays a total compensation package which includes a base salary, discretionary performance bonus, and a comprehensive benefits package.

Pay

The estimated base salary range for this position is $175,000 to $250,000, which is specific to New York and may change in the future.

Schedule

N/A

Skills

• Python
• Data structures and algorithms
• Linux

Benefits

• Total compensation package including base salary, discretionary performance bonus, and comprehensive benefits