Senior Engineer II, Platform Cloud

Acadian Asset Management is a global systematic investment manager at the forefront of data-driven investing since 1986. Headquartered in Boston with locations in Singapore London and Sydney we manage over $170 billion on behalf of leading institutions worldwideincluding pension funds endowments foundations and sovereign wealth funds. We harness advanced technology rich datasets and multidisciplinary expertise to help clients navigate complex markets and uncover insights that may be overlooked by traditional approaches.

What sets Acadian apart is our people. We foster a collaborative intellectually curious environment where ideas are tested diverse perspectives are welcomed and innovation thrives. Were united by a shared purpose: delivering effective client outcomes and supporting one another in work thats both challenging and rewarding. We offer a flexible hybrid work environment strong benefits and a casual but focused office cultureall designed to support the meaningful collaborative work that defines Acadian.

Acadian Asset Management is a global systematic investment manager at the forefront of data-driven investing since 1986. Headquartered in Boston with locations in Singapore London and Sydney we manage over $166 billion on behalf of leading institutions worldwideincluding pension funds endowments foundations and sovereign wealth funds. We harness advanced technology rich datasets and multidisciplinary expertise to help clients navigate complex markets and uncover insights that may be overlooked by traditional approaches.

What sets Acadian apart is our people. We foster a collaborative intellectually curious environment where ideas are tested diverse perspectives are welcomed and innovation thrives. Were united by a shared purpose: delivering effective client outcomes and supporting one another in work thats both challenging and rewarding. We offer a flexible hybrid work environment strong benefits and a casual but focused office cultureall designed to support the meaningful collaborative work that defines Acadian.

Position Overview:

The Platform team is responsible for building and supporting services that enable our development teams to leverage frameworks tooling and services across in-house and vendor PaaS/IaaS offerings. Platform defines the architectural roadmap best practices and provides education on these services. This position will work on a cross-functional team that is responsible for implementation and maintenance of our investment infrastructure focusing on building reusable application templates patterns of delivery and operational support of our systems running in AWS and Kubernetes. You will partner with development teams in the Investment group and peers in Platform to guide how we operate our applications. Platforms goal is to enable our fellow product focused teams to deliver solutions faster through automation and engineering.

Acadian supports a hybrid work environment; employees are on-site in the Boston office 3 days a week.

What Youll Do:

Pair with your team members to build out services and tooling that advance our cloud capabilities using AWS services like EKS ECS EC2 Lambda Bedrock and ParallelCluster

Design build and maintain agentic AI systems and automated workflows that augment decision-making and operational efficiency

Work closely with our partners at AWS to leverage architecture and support services

Review comment and approve pull/merge requests

Drive automation of the entire software delivery lifecycle

Proactively improve and modernize our tech stack

Ensure observability and availability of the investment systems

Troubleshoot and resolve operational issues

Mentor junior members of the team

Rotate through an on-call schedule with your team members to provide afterhours support when needed

Were Looking for Teammates With:

BS in Computer Science or related field preferred with at least 5 years of prior experience (Financial services exposure is a plus)

Proven record of building scalable and durable services in AWS

Knowledge of observability platforms such as OpenTelemetry CloudWatch New Relic Prometheus

Understanding of modern AI concepts including agentic systems orchestration and automation workflows.

Knowledge of migration strategies for legacy workloads to AWS

Knowledge of common patterns and software architecture

Familiarity with scripting in Bash/POSIX Shell

Experience developing services/libraries across multiple languages (Python TypeScript Go and C# are relevant to our current stack)

Experience with Terraform Helm and Kustomize (CDK experience is a plus)

Demonstrated expertise with Linux and Kubernetes

Structured approach to troubleshooting

Practical experience with networking and storage

The base salary range for this role is $165000 $185000 per year. Actual compensation will be determined based on a candidates skills qualifications and relevant addition to base pay this position may be eligible for discretionary incentive compensation and includes participation in Acadians comprehensive benefits program which includes health retirement and wellness offerings.

To apply for this position or view Acadians open roles please visit the Careers section of our website at: We will contact only selected candidates. If you are a candidate with a disability or are assisting a candidate with a disability and require an accommodation to apply for one of our jobs please email us at

Acadian Asset Management LLC is committed to providing equal employment opportunity to all employees and applicants. No employee or applicant shall be discriminated against on the basis of gender race creed color sex age national origin marital status pregnancy or parenthood veteran status citizenship status disability gender identity or sexual orientation.