Full-time · On-site

Senior Site Reliability Engineer

This is a high-impact SRE role that prioritizes engineering and automation over manual toil, situated within a prestigious quantitative investment firm. It offers the rare chance to build reliability into the core of a global data pipeline while working in an environment that values intellectual horsepower and academic rigor. It is ideal for a technologist who wants to solve 'hard' problems at the intersection of software engineering and financial data.

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Hiring company

WorldQuant

Old Greenwich, Connecticut, United States · Posted 16 April 2026

The role

Overview

This is a high-impact SRE role that prioritizes engineering and automation over manual toil, situated within a prestigious quantitative investment firm. It offers the rare chance to build reliability into the core of a global data pipeline while working in an environment that values intellectual horsepower and academic rigor. It is ideal for a technologist who wants to solve 'hard' problems at the intersection of software engineering and financial data.

The hiring side

About WorldQuant

WorldQuant is a large employer working in quantitative finance / hedge fund, based in Old Greenwich, Connecticut, United States.

Industry

Quantitative Finance / Hedge Fund

Size

Large

Location

Old Greenwich, Connecticut, United States

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What they need

Requirements & Skills

Key Responsibilities

  • Develop and automate reliability features for large-scale data onboarding pipelines
  • Build and maintain observability solutions including dashboards and alerting systems
  • Manage and scale platform components across Kubernetes and bare-metal hosts
  • Diagnose complex performance issues and drive them to root cause resolution
  • Collaborate with analysts and researchers to ensure data freshness and system integrity

Essential

  • Proven experience in Site Reliability Engineering or DevOps within a high-scale environment
  • Strong proficiency in designing and maintaining CI/CD pipelines and release management workflows
  • Expertise in Infrastructure as Code (IaC) for managing Kubernetes and bare-metal environments
  • Ability to participate in an on-call rotation and lead incident response and post-mortem analyses
  • Experience defining and monitoring SLOs and SLIs for complex data pipelines
  • Strong analytical and communication skills for cross-team collaboration

Preferred

  • Experience with cloud platforms such as Google Cloud Platform (GCP) or Amazon Web Services (AWS)
  • Familiarity with data-centric tools and large-scale data ingestion workflows
  • Background in financial services or quantitative trading environments

Key Skills

KubernetesCI/CDInfrastructure as CodeGrafanaELK Stack (Elasticsearch, Logstash, Kibana)VectorRedisCeleryMySQLObservability & MonitoringAutomationPython or similar scripting languages

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Perks

Benefits & perks

  • Intellectually driven and relaxed work environment
  • Culture of continuous improvement and open problem-solving
  • Opportunity to work with world-class researchers and technologists
  • Exposure to complex, large-scale financial data systems
  • Collaborative and academic-style atmosphere

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