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# Platform Application Specialist at Squarepoint Capital

- **Company:** Squarepoint Capital
- **Location:** Montreal, Canada / New York, NY / Houston, TX / Boston, MA / Singapore / Hong Kong / London, United Kingdom
- **Posted:** 2024-08-28
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-11-10
- **Apply:** https://www.squarepoint-capital.com/open-opportunities?id=6212084&gh_jid=6212084

## Job description

Role Overview:

As a Platform Services Specialist at Squarepoint, you will play a crucial technical role in delivering and maintaining mission-critical platform infrastructure using the DevOps methodology. You will work with a diverse group of stakeholders, including developers, researchers, and infrastructure teams, to build, automate, and scale the solutions and services used across the firm.

You will be responsible for designing, monitoring, and scaling our platform infrastructure. You will have the opportunity to make a significant impact on the productivity and efficiency of our teams by enhancing operational efficiency, developing CI/CD pipelines, creating self-service workflows, and directly improving the developer and researcher experience.

While you may have deep expertise in only one or more areas, you will be able to contribute across the entire ecosystem. Our platform domains include:

- Observability: Monitoring, tracing, logging, and alerting infrastructure.
- Scheduling & Orchestration: HPC schedulers and container orchestration for compute-intensive workloads.
- Development Tools: CI/CD pipelines, version control, artifact repositories, and developer platforms.
- Middleware: Critical applications like messaging queues, service discovery, and load balancing.
- Databases: A wide range of relational, NoSQL, and time-series database systems.
- Automation: Infrastructure automation, configuration management, and self-service enablement.

Required Qualifications:

- Degree in Engineering, Computer Science, or a related field.
- 4+ years of experience in DevOps, SRE, or platform engineering roles.
- Software development experience with Python.
- Experience with system administration and troubleshooting (Linux, Bash, Containerization).
- Infrastructure automation and configuration management experience (e.g., Ansible, Terraform, Puppet).

Nice to have:

- Deep knowledge of a modern observability stack (e.g., Prometheus, Grafana, Elastic Stack, Vector, AlertManager).
- Experience with a variety of database platforms (e.g., PostgreSQL, ClickHouse, MSSQL, Redis, FoundationDB).
- Familiarity with specific middleware (e.g., Kafka, Consul), HPC schedulers (e.g., Slurm), Kubernetes, or workflow orchestrators (e.g., Airflow, Prefect).
- Experience with on-premise deployments of development tools like GitLab, Artifactory, CICD, or JupyterHub.
- Knowledge of other programming languages such as Golang, Rust, or JavaScript.
- Experience with advanced software engineering concepts, API development, and creating Kubernetes Operators.

The minimum base salary for this role is $120,000 if located in New York.  This expectation is based on available information at the time of posting.  This role may be eligible for discretionary bonuses, which could constitute a significant portion of total compensation.  This role may also be eligible for benefits, such as health, dental, and other wellness plans, as well as 401(k) contributions.  Successful candidates’ compensation and benefits will be determined in consideration of various factors

## About Squarepoint Capital

## Company Overview
- **One-liner**: Squarepoint Capital is a leading global quantitative investment manager that uses a rigorous scientific approach and state-of-the-art technology to construct diversified, systematic strategies for institutional clients.
- **Entity Type**: Private (no disclosed external funding; spun out from Barclays in 2014)
- **Headquarters**: New York, New York, United States
- **Founded**: 2014 (as an independent firm; the underlying business, nQuant, dates back to 2000 within Lehman Brothers and later Barclays)
- **Founders**: Led by four founding partners (names not publicly disclosed); the original founders of nQuant continue to lead Squarepoint today.

## Core Business
- **Primary industry**: Financial Services – Quantitative Investment Management
- **Target customers**: Institutional investors (B2B)
- **Mission / Purpose**: “Achieving high quality returns for our clients” through a systematic, diversified, and research-driven investment platform.

## Products & Services
- **Quantitative Investment Strategies**: A diversified portfolio of systematic strategies spanning multiple asset classes (equities, fixed income, currencies, commodities), trading frequencies (high-frequency to long-term), and global markets. The majority of investments are based on rigorous backtesting on historical data.
- **Technology & Data Platform**: A custom, nimble, and forward-looking software stack that enables seamless integration between research and trading, executing millions of trades per day. Includes low-latency trading systems and a world-class data infrastructure.

## Market Standing
- **Valuation / Market Cap**: Not publicly disclosed
- **Key Metric**: Annual revenue is not publicly disclosed (LinkedIn estimates ~$12M, but this likely underrepresents a firm of this scale; the figure should be treated with caution). The firm is privately held and does not report earnings.
- **Notable Investors / Partners**: No external investors; the firm is privately held by its founding partners. Alumni frequently move to top quant funds and tech companies (e.g., Millennium, Citadel, Qube Research & Technologies, Google, Jump Trading).
- **Growth Signals**: Headcount grew 33.9% year-over-year to approximately 1,801 employees (LinkedIn, 2025). The firm operates 17 offices across 8 countries and is actively hiring across technical, research, and finance roles.

## Competitive Advantages
- **Deep heritage**: The team’s quantitative roots trace back to 2000, with a proven track record through multiple market cycles.
- **Scientific rigor**: A disciplined, research-first approach that relies on backtesting and systematic execution rather than discretionary bets.
- **Scale and technology**: Executes millions of trades daily using a highly custom, low-latency platform developed in-house.
- **Global diversification**: Strategies span asset classes, geographies, and trading frequencies, reducing reliance on any single market or style.
- **Culture of ownership**: Privately held and led by its founding partners, fostering long-term thinking and accountability.

## Strategic Focus
- **Diversification**: Continuously expanding into new asset classes, trading frequencies, and geographies.
- **Technology investment**: Ongoing development of proprietary software and data infrastructure to maintain a competitive edge in research and execution.
- **Talent acquisition**: Aggressively hiring quantitative researchers, software engineers (C++, Python), platform engineers, and operations specialists across global offices.

## Why Work Here
- **Culture**: Collaboration across teams, a flat structure with a strong sense of ownership and accountability, and a focus on intellectual curiosity.
- **Work environment**: In-office for most roles (offices in New York, Boston, London, Paris, Singapore, Bangalore, etc.). Some roles offer a remote work program, but the majority require physical presence.
- **Benefits**: Generous parental leave, health insurance (medical, dental, vision), 401(K) matching, disability and life insurance, paid sick days, generous PTO, paid volunteer time, free snacks and drinks. Offices are designed for in-person collaboration.
- **Engineering culture**: Technology is considered core to the business; engineers work closely with quantitative researchers to build and optimize trading systems. Emphasis on C++, Python, Kubernetes, and low-latency systems.
- **Growth trajectory**: Rapid headcount growth and a global footprint offer opportunities for career advancement and international mobility.

## Sources
1. [squarepoint-capital.com](https://www.squarepoint-capital.com/)
2. [squarepoint-capital.com/about](https://squarepoint-capital.com/about)
3. [linkedin.com/company/squarepoint-capital](https://ca.linkedin.com/company/squarepoint-capital)
4. [builtin.com/company/squarepoint-capital](https://builtin.com/company/squarepoint-capital)
5. [job-boards.greenhouse.io/squarepointcapital](https://job-boards.greenhouse.io/squarepointcapital)

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