Full-Time
Senior Linux Infrastructure Engineer
The Voleon Group
51-200 employees
Machine-learning driven investment management for institutions
Compensation Overview
$215k - $250k/yr
Remote in USA
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- 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.
- 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.
- 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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Simplify's Take
What believers are saying
- August 11, 2026 brought Osman Awan, a senior quant trader from CC&L.
- Voleon.com listed 46 open quant roles on August 13, 2026.
- LinkedIn still shows Voleon as privately held with 201-500 employees and 16,998 followers.
What critics are saying
- Business Insider reported Voleon voided ex-employee noncompetes after 2023 backlash.
- That controversy still brands Voleon as a litigious employer and recruitment risk.
- A single model regime break can trigger redemptions and end Voleon's franchise.
What makes The Voleon Group unique
- Voleon pairs machine learning with investing, not discretionary stock-picking.
- CEO Michael Kharitonov's Berkeley team targets multi-asset research, execution, and securities finance.
- Its academic, statistics-heavy culture attracts Ph.D. researchers over traditional hedge-fund traders.
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Company News
Osman Awan moves to The Voleon Group. August 11, 2026 Osman Awan has joined The Voleon Group as a Lead Quant Trading Strategist, where he will manage a team focused on multi-asset research and optimization across execution and securities finance, according to his LinkedIn profile. The move brings Awan to the Berkeley-based quantitative investment firm from Connor, Clark & Lunn Investment Management, where he most recently served as Head of Quant Trading and Trading Research. At CC&L, Awan was responsible for execution and execution research across the firm's quantitative equity portfolios. He had been with the investment manager for 7.5 years and was promoted to principal in 2021. Prior to CC&L, Awan spent about three years in roles spanning equity trading and market structure. He was Vice President of Business Development at Instinet from June 2017 to November 2018, following a role in Business Development focused on Equity Trading and Market Structure at Aequitas NEO Exchange from March 2016 to June 2017. Earlier in his career, Awan spent nearly five years at CIBC World Markets as an Associate in Equity Derivatives Trading and Coverage, from April 2011 to February 2016. In his new role at Voleon, Awan will oversee a team working across multiple asset classes, with responsibilities spanning quantitative research and optimization of trading execution and securities finance. Voleon is a quantitative investment firm that uses systematic, data-driven approaches across global financial markets. The firm's platform combines quantitative research, technology and trading to develop investment strategies across asset classes.
Voleon Capital Management LP purchased a new stake in Booking in the fourth quarter worth about $1,679,000.
Voleon Capital Management LP purchased a new stake in Coca-Cola in the fourth quarter valued at $2,513,000.
Finally, Voleon Capital Management LP purchased a new stake in Carvana in the fourth quarter valued at approximately $7,502,000.
Voleon Capital Management LP acquired a new stake in AvePoint in the fourth quarter valued at approximately $367,000.