Compute Engineer

BAM is building a world-class on-premises compute platform for its investment professionals and is looking for an engineer to help. This engineer will build software control systems for Kubernetes clusters, bare metal and virtualized servers.

As the Compute Engineer at BAM, you will

• Build fault tolerant, distributed systems that enable BAM’s investment and research teams to work reliably and efficiently around the clock.
• Establish software guardrails that enforce standards and enable reproducible compute environments.
• Scale and harden our compute infrastructure to provide a robust and resilient environment for researchers and investment professionals.
• Leverage both open and closed source software solutions.
• Partner with application developers across the firm and enable their success.
• Participate in on-call rotation and maintenance.

Core Tech Stack

• Kubernetes on bare metal Linux.
• RPM-based Linux distro.
• Open-source server virtualization.
• Mature AI environment with access to open source and frontier models.

To be considered a good cultural fit, you must be:

• An ambitious self-starter who strives for excellence in everything you do.
• An efficient communicator that can work with technical and non-technical people equally well.

To be considered a good technical fit, you must have:

• 6+ years, hands-on experience with large-scale compute environments.
• Experience with software low latency environments and the tuning required.
• Expert knowledge of Kubernetes from the infrastructure and application points of view.
• Experience managing bare metal compute at scale.
• IP network performance tuning and routing experience.
• Comfortable writing Python.
• Experience with disaster recovery and business continuity planning.

Don’t have all the skills listed above? Have extra skills you think are important that we haven’t thought of? Please let us know by applying and telling us a bit more about yourself and why you think you’re qualified!