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Tower has built its business on a high-performance platform and independent trading teams. We have a 25+ year track record of innovation and a reputation for discovering unique market opportunities.\nTower is home to some of the world’s best systematic trading and engineering talent. We empower portfolio managers to build their teams and strategies independently while providing the economies of scale that come from a large, global organization.\nEngineers thrive at Tower while developing electronic trading infrastructure at a world class level. Our engineers solve challenging problems in the realms of low-latency programming, FPGA technology, hardware acceleration and machine learning. Our ongoing investment in top engineering talent and technology ensures our platform remains unmatched in terms of functionality, scalability and performance.\nAt Tower, every employee plays a role in our success. Our Business Support teams are essential to building and maintaining the platform that powers everything we do - combining market access, data, compute, and research infrastructure with risk management, compliance, and a full suite of business services. Our Business Support teams enable our trading and engineering teams to perform at their best.\nAt Tower, employees will find a stimulating, results-oriented environment where highly intelligent and motivated colleagues inspire each other to reach their greatest potential.\nSummary:\nWe are looking for a Senior Platform Engineer to help build, operate, and improve the software delivery and developer infrastructure platforms used by engineering teams working on large-scale C++ and Python applications. This role combines platform engineering, CI/CD, build systems, infrastructure automation, observability, artifact management, and developer productivity. The ideal candidate has strong systems engineering fundamentals and practical experience supporting complex engineering workflows in a production-critical environment.\nResponsibilities:\nDesigning, building, and enhancing tools that support developer productivity, systems infrastructure, and DevOps practices\nPartner with the global Platform, Developer Infrastructure, and Release Engineering team to align regional solutions with global standards while representing local engineering, operational, and business priorities.\nMaintain and improve build and release infrastructure for large-scale C++ and Python applications, including build tooling, dependency management, CI/CD integration, artifact workflows, and developer self-service capabilities.\nPartner with software engineers, infrastructure engineers, quants, traders, and SRE teams to design, build, and operate reliable software delivery platforms.\nDesign, develop, and operate scalable CI/CD pipelines for build, test, artifact promotion, deployment, and release workflows.\nBuild and maintain infrastructure automation and configuration management solutions for platform, CI/CD, artifact, and developer infrastructure services.\nDevelop internal developer tooling and self-service platform capabilities that reduce operational toil and improve developer productivity.\nUse containerization and orchestration technologies to support reproducible builds, reliable CI/CD execution, and consistent deployment workflows.\nImprove observability for build, CI/CD, release, and platform services through centralized logging, metrics, tracing, dashboards, and alerting.\nTroubleshoot and optimize build, CI/CD, artifact, and developer infrastructure systems with a focus on performance, reliability, scalability, and security.\nImplement software supply chain security practices, including artifact provenance, dependency management, vulnerability scanning, secret management, and CI/CD security controls.\nParticipate in incident response, root cause analysis, and continuous improvement for platform-owned build, release, CI/CD, and developer infrastructure services.\nEvaluate and recommend improvements to build, release, CI/CD, developer infrastructure, observability, and software delivery platforms.\nQualifications:\nBachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related discipline, or equivalent practical experience.\n7+ years of hands-on engineering experience building, operating, or improving software delivery, platform, infrastructure, CI/CD, DevOps, SRE, or developer productivity systems.\nStrong Linux systems knowledge and troubleshooting skills.\nStrong understanding of software build systems, especially for large C++ codebases; 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That is why we foster a culture where smart, driven people thrive - without the egos. Our open concept workplace, casual dress code, and well-stocked kitchens reflect the value we place on a friendly, collaborative environment where everyone is respected, and great ideas win.\nOur benefits include:\nGenerous paid time off policies\nSavings plans and other financial wellness tools available in each region\nHybrid working opportunities\nFree breakfast, lunch, and snacks daily\nIn-office wellness experiences and reimbursement for select wellness expenses (e.g., gym, personal training and more)\nCompany-sponsored sports teams and fitness events (JPM Corporate Challenge, Cycle for Survival, Wall Street Rides FAR and more)\nVolunteer opportunities and charitable giving\nSocial events, happy hours, treats, and celebrations throughout the year\nWorkshops and continuous learning opportunities\nAt Tower, you’ll find a collaborative and welcoming culture, a diverse team and a workplace that values both performance and enjoyment. No unnecessary hierarchy. No ego. 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