Platform Engineer, IEX
Infrastructure
$200-225k
+ New hire stock equity (RSUs) + bonus
Equity trading exchange
Be an early applicant
Equity trading exchange
101-200 employees
Be an early applicant
$200-225k
+ New hire stock equity (RSUs) + bonus
101-200 employees
Company mission
To innovate with a purpose: to drive trading performance for market participants.
Role
Who you are
- You are someone who thrives in a collaborative environment but is equally comfortable working independently
- You enjoy solving complex problems, learning new technologies, and building tooling that makes engineering teams more productive
- Above all, if you are passionate about our mission of driving fairness and transparency on Wall Street, we’d love to meet you
- Hands-on experience building infrastructure in Azure using Terraform
- Solid Linux fundamentals and experience with shell scripting
- Programming fundamentals in Python, Go, or Rust
- Kubernetes experience (both managed and on-prem preferred)
- Experience with CI/CD and SDLC practices (Azure DevOps, GitHub, or GitLab)
- Experience with monitoring and alerting tools such as Prometheus, ELK stack, Graylog, or Nagios
- Exposure to infrastructure lifecycle management and operational tooling
- Nice to have: PostgreSQL database experience, distributed systems knowledge, or hardware management experience
- Bachelor’s degree is a plus but not required
- Strategic but willing to dive into the weeds
- Strong problem-solver and critical thinker
- Collaborative and a strong partner to engineering teams
- Self-starter who is eager to learn and adopt new technologies
- Organized, detail-oriented, and able to manage multiple priorities
- Strong verbal and written communication skills
What the job involves
- IEX is looking for a Platform Engineer, Infrastructure to design, build, and operate our internal infrastructure platforms, including Azure cloud services, Kubernetes, storage, virtualization, and Linux systems
- This role owns projects end to end and plays a key part in ensuring our infrastructure is scalable, reliable, and aligned with our engineering needs
- Build, deploy, and maintain cloud infrastructure in Azure using Terraform
- Design and support OS deployment infrastructure for both bare metal and containerized environments
- Contribute to Kubernetes efforts, including supporting a new distributed computing POC and guiding the team on best practices
- Improve and maintain configuration management and infrastructure tooling
- Develop monitoring, observability, and reporting systems (Prometheus, Victor Metrics, ELK, etc.)
- Create clear, reproducible documentation for infrastructure and operational processes
- Support administration of user accounts, entitlements, and platform-level tooling
- Partner with engineering teams to ensure infrastructure is reliable, secure, and scalable
Our take
Innovations in fintech infrastructure have dramatically changed how people invest, but despite such developments, investors still face limitations when trading assets. Exchanges often list out-of-date pricing information which limits investors' abilities to make strategic investment decisions, a problem that is heightened through knock-on effects from other unstable stock prices.
IEX provides a registered US stock exchange for investors and broker-dealers, focussing on providing a more stable trade execution experience than existing exchanges. The company achieves this through its "Speed Bump" strategy that delays trades to gather up-to-date pricing information whilst assessing them for price stability, ensuring that trades are not executed based on stale data, and helping to notify other orders to react to other stock price stability levels.
Whilst the company must share the stock exchange sector with many competitors, IEX show great promise through its focus on maintaining pricing accuracy and stability. The company also stands out by providing a cloud platform for the selling, sharing, and use of financial data, in addition to an investment lifecycle advice tool for institutional investors.
Kirsty
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
15% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 3 rounds)
Sep 2014
$75m
SERIES C
Mar 2013
$24.4m
SERIES B
Total funding: $100.9m
Company benefits
- 100% Employer-Paid Benefit Premiums: Medical, dental and vision benefits premiums covered 100% for employees, spouses, and dependents
- One MEdical Membership: 100% company-paid annual membership to One Medical primary care services
- Matched 401(k), Equity & Bonus Offerings: Competitive compensation packages including equity and bonus opportunities and 401(k) with annual company match
- Learning Stipend and Non-Profit Donation Match: $5000 annual learning stipend and $1000 annual match for donations to 5013(c) organizations of your choice
- In-Office Gym: Fully equipped with weights, treadmills, a Peloton bike, and locker rooms with showers
- Lunch and Learns: Have lunch on IEX and listen to co-workers present on their areas of expertise
- Hybrid Working Environments: Teams determine how and where they work – home, on the road, or in office
- Flexible Vacation Policy: With unlimited PTO, recharge your batteries and come to work ready to innovate
- 16 Weeks Paid Parental Leave: Offered for primary and secondary caregivers at the birth, adoption, or placement of a child
Company HQ
World Trade Center, New York, NY
Leadership
Bradley Katsuyama
(Co-Founder & CEO)Founding Board Member of The Public Health Company. Spent 11 years at RBC Capital Markets, ultimately as Managing Director of US Cash Equity Trading.
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