Infrastructure Engineer

📋 Job Overview

Alphataraxia Management (ATX) is a fast-growing quantitative investment management group with offices in both Washington, DC and Culver City, Los Angeles, CA. We specialize in wholesale electricity markets, where extreme volatility is the norm and the marketplace is constantly evolving, presenting new opportunities for growth and insight. We are currently one of the top participants in the power markets and are looking for hard-working candidates with genuine enthusiasm for solving complex problems to join our collaborative and high-caliber team.

🏢 About Alphataraxia

Alphataraxia Management (ATX) is a fast-growing quantitative investment management group with offices in both Washington, DC and Culver City, Los Angeles, CA. We specialize in wholesale electricity markets, where extreme volatility is the norm and the marketplace is constantly evolving, presenting new opportunities for growth and insight. We are currently one of the top participants in the power markets and are looking for hard-working candidates with genuine enthusiasm for solving complex problems to join our collaborative and high-caliber team.

🎯 The Role

Platform’s work focuses on three core responsibilities:

• Providing a scalable, reliable foundation for the firm’s most critical data and tools.
• Accelerating and scaling valuable prototypes into robust production solutions.
• Rapidly resolving technical barriers that slow teams down.

This role owns the Infrastructure area of responsibility within the Platform Team: AWS foundation and networking, Kubernetes, Terraform, GitOps, the Dagster control plane, Snowflake infrastructure, security, identity and secrets, disaster recovery, cost and capacity planning, and remote access. You'll be the one person principally focused in this area, with the rest of Platform (four engineers focused mostly on the Data and Developer Platform) helping you ramp.

Reports to: Head of Platform

✅ Key Responsibilities

• For the first several months, the Head of Platform will collaboratively set priorities with you while you learn the systems and the firm. After that, you own the roadmap for Infrastructure the way a product owner would — you bring them problems and a prioritized plan before starting execution.
• There's already a backlog of possible projects (tenant-level reliability of Snowflake, access hardening for AI enablement, resilience to GitHub outages, EKS upgrade cadence, a capacity planning process); part of the job is deciding which ones actually matter and when.
• Some IT-adjacent work falls under Infrastructure too, mainly access provisioning and security. IT is a small share of the team's time overall, so expect it to be a very minor part of the role.

📌 Required Qualifications

• Production Kubernetes (like EKS) and Terraform
• GitOps workflows (like Flux, Atlantis)
• Docker, deeply enough to debug a container problem down through the OS and network layers
• Cloud networking, secrets, certificates, and secure service-to-service connectivity
• Self-service tooling for other engineers

⭐ Desirable Experience

• Workflow orchestration infrastructure
• Snowflake and RDS infrastructure
• Karpenter
• Python
• Multi-region or multi-provider disaster recovery design
• Managing externally-issued credentials and certificates

🎁 Benefits

We strive to offer best-in-class compensation and benefits alongside an unrivaled work-life balance.

• $180,000–$200,000 annual salary
• Annual discretionary bonus
• 18 paid vacation days + 7 paid federal holidays
• Excellent health, dental, and vision insurance (including HSA option) with no monthly premiums for best-in-class platinum individual plan
• 401k match -- 100% company matching on the first 4% of deferrals with immediate vesting
• Annual firmwide weeklong summit
• Hybrid remote work environment -- most of the year we are in the office Tuesday to Thursday with remote flexibility Monday and Friday
• Flexible remote work months -- fully remote option for the month of July and between Thanksgiving and New Years
• Casual environment (informal attire)
• Snacks and unlimited coffee in the office
• Firm-sponsored social events and activities including happy hours, lunches, book club, and more!

🛂 Visa & Eligibility

Please note that we can only extend offers to individuals that are authorized to work in the US; we are unable to sponsor visa applications at this time.