What are the responsibilities and job description for the Platform Engineer position at Apollo Solutions?
Platform Engineer – Research Systems
Location: Boston (Hybrid)
The Opportunity
We’re working with a top-tier quantitative investment firm that operates fully automated trading strategies across global markets. Technology is not a support function here - it is the business.
They’re looking to hire a Platform Engineer to help build, scale, and operate the core infrastructure that underpins quantitative research, simulation, and live trading. This is a deeply technical role focused on distributed systems, compute platforms, and developer enablement, working closely with researchers and engineers who rely on the platform every day.
What You’ll Work On
- Build and evolve core platform infrastructure supporting large-scale research and automated trading systems
- Design and operate distributed compute environments, balancing performance, reliability, and scalability
- Develop and maintain CI/CD pipelines for complex, multi-language systems
- Automate infrastructure using modern tooling (e.g. Terraform, cloud-native frameworks)
- Deploy and manage containerized workloads using Kubernetes / OpenShift or similar
- Manage and scale compute capacity across research and production workloads
- Work in a hybrid cloud environment
What They’re Looking For
- Strong background in platform, infrastructure, or distributed systems engineering
- Experience building or operating large-scale compute platforms
- Proficiency in one or more of Python, Java, or similar systems languages
- Strong experience in Linux / Unix-based environments
- Hands-on exposure to AWS, GCP or Azure
- Experience with Kubernetes
- Experience with CI/CD
- Strong understanding of system design
If you're interested, please apply now!