Senior Software Engineer, Development Tools

Overview

In this role you will design and enhance developer tooling and systems infrastructure to speed delivery and reliability for Tower’s trading platform. You will contribute to monorepo-scale build systems and CI/CD pipelines, working cross-functionally with product, platform, and security teams. Your efforts will reduce build times, improve deployment feedback, and strengthen monitoring and reliability practices. This is a hands-on role at a leading quantitative trading firm where engineering excellence directly enables high-performance trading capabilities.

Pay / Benefits

• Generous paid time off
• Hybrid working opportunities
• Free breakfast, lunch, and snacks
• Wellness reimbursement
• Company-sponsored sports teams and fitness events
• Volunteer opportunities and charitable giving

Responsibilities

• Design, build, and improve developer tooling and systems infrastructure
• Contribute to monorepo-scale build systems (e.g., Bazel, Buck2, CMake, Rattler/Pixi)
• Automate developer workflows to enable fast iteration and high reliability
• Collaborate with product, infrastructure, security, and QA on cross-functional initiatives
• Enhance CI/CD pipelines, testing frameworks, and deployment automation
• Implement and integrate monitoring, logging, and alerting for tooling and systems
• Measure and optimize developer productivity metrics (build speed, deployment cadence, MTTR)
• Drive performance, scalability, and reliability best practices
• Provide technical mentorship and help standards and best practices across the team

Key requirements

• Strong programming skills in C++, Rust, and/or Python
• 7+ years of software development, infrastructure engineering, or DevOps experience
• Deep practical experience with large build systems at monorepo scale (Buck2/Bazel/Blaze preferred)
• Strong Linux/Unix toolchain knowledge with multiple compilers and native code experience
• Broad experience with DevOps tooling: monorepo, CI/CD, Git, Docker/Podman, Config as Code, IaC
• Proven ability to optimize performance and scalability in large codebases
• Systematic troubleshooting skills and cross-team collaboration
• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, IT, or related field

• strong organizational and communication abilities
• cross-team collaboration
• problem-solving mindset
• monorepo build systems
• Bazel, Buck2, CMake, Rattler/Pixi
• Linux/Unix toolchains

…