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title: 'Senior Database Engineer at Soros Fund Management'
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# Senior Database Engineer at Soros Fund Management

- **Company:** Soros Fund Management
- **Location:** New York, NY
- **Posted:** 2026-10-09
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-10-15
- **Apply:** https://job-boards.greenhouse.io/familyoffice/jobs/8015959003

## Job description

Company Overview

Soros Fund Management LLC (SFM) is a global asset manager and family office founded by George Soros in 1973. With $28 billion in assets under management (AUM), SFM serves as the principal asset manager for the Open Society Foundations, one of the world’s largest charitable foundations dedicated to advancing justice, human rights, and democracy.

Distinct from other investment platforms, SFM thrives on agility, acting decisively when conviction is high and exercising patience when it’s not. With permanent capital, a select group of major clients, and an unconstrained mandate, we invest opportunistically with a long-term view in a wide range of strategies and asset classes, including public and private equity and credit, fixed income, foreign exchange, and alternative assets. Our teams operate with autonomy, while cross-team collaboration strengthens our conviction and empowers us to capitalize on market dislocations.

At SFM, we foster an ownership mindset, encouraging professionals to challenge the status quo, innovate, and take initiative. We prioritize development, enabling team members to push beyond their roles, voice bold ideas, and contribute to our long-term success. This culture of continuous growth and constructive debate fuels innovation and drives efficiencies.

Our impact is measured by both the returns we generate and the values we uphold, from environmental stewardship to social responsibility. Operating as a unified team across geographies and mandates, we remain committed to our mission, ensuring a meaningful, lasting impact.

Headquartered in New York City with offices in Greenwich, Garden City, London, and Dublin, SFM employs 200 professionals.

## Team Overview

This individual will report to the Head of Cloud SRE, Database, & DevOps Engineering. Other key relationships will include cybersecurity analysts and software development engineers.

Job Overview

We are seeking a Senior Level Database Engineer to join our engineering team, with a primary focus on designing, building, and managing mission-critical database platforms that underpin our trading and investment systems.

This role is database-first, centered on engineering, performance, and reliability of enterprise data platforms, including Microsoft SQLServer, Snowflake,and Databricks and/or similar experience with RDMS technologies (e.g., Sybase, DB2).

Beyond database engineering, the role extends into cloud infrastructure (AWS) and DevOps practices for cloud-native relational systems such as AWS Aurora and RDS PostgreSQL; enabling scalable, automated, and well-governed environments for data-intensive workloads.

Desired experience in migrating RDMS to AWS/Azure cloud database solutions.  In addition, desired experience with AI database technologies such as Vector DBs/Embeddings, Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG), data streaming, data governance.

This is a hands-on engineering role requiring solid expertise in database systems, strong cloud fundamentals, and an ability to partner closely with application, data, and platform teams to deliver performance, secure, and efficient data solutions.

Major Responsibilities

Database Engineering & Data Platforms (Primary Focus)

- Design, build, and operate enterprise-grade database platforms with a focus on:
- SQL Server, Databricks and Snowflake (core systems)
- AWS Aurora and RDS PostgreSQL
- Additional platforms such as Sybase, DB2, and similar technologies
- Manage and optimize database performance, scalability, and availability across on-premises and cloud environments
- Implement best practices for query optimization, indexing, schema design, and workload management
- Own database lifecycle management including provisioning, patching, upgrades, and capacity planning
- Design and execute backup, recovery, and disaster recovery strategies
- Desired experience in migrating RDMS to AWS/Azure cloud database solutions.
- Collaborate with data and application teams to model and evolve data architectures supporting trading, analytics, and reporting workloads
- Ensure strong data governance, security, and access controls across all platforms

## What We Value

Preferred experience with:

Cloud Engineering

- Design and manage database infrastructure and supporting systems in AWS (preferred) and/or Azure
- Deploy and manage cloud-native database services (Aurora, RDS, Snowflake integrations)
- Build scalable, resilient architectures supporting high-performance data workloads
- Implement infrastructure as code using Terraform or similar tools
- Optimize cloud resource utilization and cost efficiency for database and data platforms
- Support hybrid and multi-cloud data architectures

DevOps & Automation

- Develop automation for database provisioning, configuration, and operations
- Build and maintain CI/CD pipelines supporting database changes and data platform deployments (CDTKF, Dagster, Airflow, etc)
- Promote version-controlled database development and Git-based workflows
- Enable repeatable deployment patterns for schema changes and data pipelines
- Improve engineering efficiency through tooling, automation, and standardization

Monitoring, Performance & Reliability

- Implement monitoring, alerting, and observability for database systems using tools such as Datadog, CloudWatch, LogicMonitor or similar
- Proactively identify and resolve performance bottlenecks across database and data platforms
- Ensure high availability and resilience of critical data systems
- Partner with cybersecurity teams to implement secure database configurations, encryption, and compliance controls

Data & Emerging Platforms

- Support modern data ecosystems, including Snowflake and Databricks and cloud-native analytics platforms
- Enable data pipelines and integration patterns for structured and unstructured data
- Evaluate and adopt emerging technologies relevant to data engineering and analytics

Nice to Have:

Data Platforms & Analytics

- Familiarity with modern data architectures (data lakes, lakehouses)
- Experience integrating Snowflake or similar databases (Redshift, BigQuery, etc) with cloud data pipelines

Financial Services

- Experience supporting trading or investment systems
- Understanding of financial data flows, market data, or trading platforms

We anticipate the base salary of this role to be between $225,000-250,000. In addition to a base salary, the successful candidate will also be eligible to receive a discretionary year-end bonus.

In all respects, candidates need to reflect the following SFM core values:

Smart risk-taking   //   Owner’s Mindset   //   Teamwork   //   Humility   //   Integrity

## About Soros Fund Management

## Company Overview
- **One-liner**: A global asset manager and family office that serves as the principal asset manager for the Open Society Foundations, investing across all asset classes with a permanent capital base.
- **Entity Type**: Private (family office)
- **Headquarters**: Not publicly available from provided sources (widely reported as New York, USA)
- **Founded**: Over 50 years ago (c. 1970)
- **Founders**: George Soros

## Core Business
- **Primary industry**: Asset management, financial services
- **Target customers**: Institutional (exclusively family clients; does not solicit outside investors)
- **Mission**: Generate high-quality returns while upholding values of environmental stewardship, social responsibility, and driving systemic change (clean energy, economic equality, democratic practices).

## Products & Services
Soros Fund Management invests across a broad range of strategies and asset classes, including:

- **Public Equities & Credit**: Long/short equity, investment grade, high yield, distressed debt, structured products
- **Private Markets**: Direct lending (real estate, venture/growth, ABS, NAV, litigation finance), co-investments, private equity
- **Macro Strategies**: Rates, FX, equities (both discretionary and systematic)
- **Alpha Capture & Risk Overlays**: Central risk management and portfolio construction
- **External Manager Allocation**: Partnerships with top-tier external asset managers across public and private markets

## Market Standing
- **Valuation/Market Cap**: Not applicable (private family office)
- **Key Metric**: $28 billion Assets Under Management (AUM); 200 employees; 5 offices
- **Notable Investors/Partners**: Open Society Foundations (primary client and capital source)
- **Growth Signals**: Permanent capital base allows long-term, patient deployment through market cycles; 50+ years of track record; active in both traditional and alternative strategies

## Competitive Advantages
- **Permanent capital base**: Enables long-term, patient investing and the ability to act decisively during market dislocations
- **Unconstrained mandate**: Flexibility to invest across asset classes, geographies, and strategies without style drift
- **Collaborative culture**: Open debate, direct access to senior leadership, and flat hierarchy foster better decision-making
- **Purpose-driven**: Alignment with Open Society Foundations’ mission allows investing with impact as a core criterion

## Strategic Focus
- **Current priorities**: Driving the clean energy transition, combating economic inequalities, ensuring freedom of expression, and promoting democratic practices and rights
- **Investment approach**: Opportunistic, concentrated positions built on deep industry expertise; emphasis on smart risk-taking with long-term horizons

## Why Work Here
- **Culture**: Transparency, open debate, and direct engagement with senior leadership at all levels. Values include integrity, teamwork, humility, and ownership mindset.
- **Development**: Custom training programs, continuous learning, hands-on experience, and mentoring. Encourages constructive challenge and creative thinking.
- **Benefits**: Comprehensive medical plans, mental health support, on-site gyms at every office, generous 401(k) matching, and profit-sharing.
- **Work model**: Not explicitly stated; emphasis on in-person collaboration suggests an office-centric culture with multiple global locations.

## Sources
1. [Soros Fund Management Homepage](https://sorosfundmgmt.com/)
2. [Soros Fund Management About Page](https://sorosfundmgmt.com/about/)
3. [Soros Fund Management Careers Page](https://sorosfundmgmt.com/careers/)
4. [Soros Fund Management What We Do Page](https://sorosfundmgmt.com/what-we-do/)

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