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.
WorldQuant
Old Greenwich, Connecticut, United States · Posted 16 April 2026
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Overview
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About WorldQuant
WorldQuant is a large employer working in quantitative finance / hedge fund, based in Old Greenwich, Connecticut, United States.
Quantitative Finance / Hedge Fund
Large
Old Greenwich, Connecticut, United States
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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
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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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