Full-Time

Senior Linux Infrastructure Engineer

Updated on 8/1/2026

The Voleon Group

The Voleon Group

51-200 employees

Machine-learning driven investment management for institutions

Compensation Overview

$215k - $250k/yr

Remote in USA

Remote

Category
DevOps & Infrastructure (1)
Software Engineering (1)
Required Skills
TCP/IP
Chef
Bash
Kubernetes
Python
Grafana
Puppet
MySQL
GitHub Actions
Ruby
Machine Learning
Postgres
Docker
Prometheus
Jenkins
Ansible
DevOps
Linux/Unix
Data Analysis

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Requirements
  • At least 7 years of experience working as a Linux systems administrator or engineer.
  • In-depth understanding of Linux fundamentals, including filesystems, process scheduling, virtual memory management, and other base primitives.
  • In-depth understanding of the TCP/IP network protocol and addressing.
  • Significant experience developing operational tooling in Python, Ruby, or a similar language.
  • Significant experience with a configuration management platform such as Ansible, Puppet, or Chef.
  • Experience with metrics, monitoring, and visualization tools such as Prometheus, Influx, and Grafana.
Responsibilities
  • Develop operational tooling in Python, Ruby, or a similar language beyond shell scripts for API integrations, data processing, and system orchestration tasks.
  • Design and implement systems that are highly available, self-healing, scalable, and performant.
  • Create comprehensive metrics, monitoring, visualization, and alerting systems across all parts of the infrastructure.
  • Design and implement all system components according to security-first principles.
  • Heavily engage with artificial intelligence tools for all aspects of development and support.
  • Participate in an on-call rotation.
Desired Qualifications
  • Experience with continuous integration and continuous delivery tools such as Jenkins and GitHub Actions.
  • Experience with containers and container orchestration.
  • Experience with distributed storage systems such as Ceph, Lustre, and GPFS.
  • Experience with relational database management systems such as PostgreSQL and MySQL.

Voleon Group is an investment management firm that uses proprietary machine learning models to predict financial market trends. It serves institutional clients by managing portfolios and charging performance-based fees based on returns. The approach relies on analyzing large data sets with statistical models to uncover patterns that inform investment decisions, rather than relying on human intuition. The company emphasizes scalable, adaptable algorithms and rigorous academic research to manage risk and improve performance. Its goal is to deliver consistent, data-driven investment results for pension funds, endowments, and other large investors.

Company Size

51-200

Company Stage

N/A

Total Funding

N/A

Headquarters

Berkeley, California

Founded

2007

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What believers are saying

  • Performance-based fees align revenue with portfolio returns.
  • Institutional clients support large mandate sizes and recurring assets.
  • Scalable research culture can compound model improvements over time.

What critics are saying

  • Renaissance Technologies and Two Sigma compress alpha in machine-learning quant strategies.
  • Regime shifts can break proprietary models and damage fee revenue quickly.
  • A single drawdown can trigger redemptions from pension and endowment clients.

What makes The Voleon Group unique

  • Machine-learning driven hedge fund founded in 2007 by Michael Kharitonov and Jon McAuliffe.
  • Berkeley headquarters support a deep academic recruiting pipeline.
  • Proprietary statistical models target large-scale financial prediction problems.

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Benefits

Health Insurance

Dental Insurance

Vision Insurance

Life Insurance

Paid Vacation

Paid Sick Leave

401(k) Retirement Plan

401(k) Company Match

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