As a Platform Software Engineer in the Storage Engineering team, you will help turn manual infrastructure into self-service storage products that power G-Research’s research platform. You’ll build services and APIs, automate workflows, and ensure changes are safe, auditable and observable. You’ll work with cross-functional teams including security and developer platform services, contributing to scalable storage infrastructure used across the firm. This role offers the chance to shape how researchers access and manage data at scale, with a strong emphasis on reliability, automation and incident readiness. You’ll participate in on-call rotations and incident response, delivering resilient, pl
Pay / Benefits
Highly competitive compensation plus annual discretionary bonus
Lunch provided and barista bar
30 days' annual leave
9% company pension contributions
Comprehensive healthcare and life assurance
Cycle-to-work scheme
Responsibilities
Build and operate services and APIs in Python, Go and TypeScript
Automate capacity, tenant, quota, access and data lifecycle workflows
Create self-service requests with policy checks and exception paths
Model infrastructure state, ensure idempotent, auditable changes
Define stable contracts between storage and developer platform services
Develop tests, fixtures and observability to aid diagnostics
Collaborate with users and partner teams to formalize operational problems into bounded engineering work
Participate in incident response and out-of-hours on-call rotation
Key requirements
Strong Python, with practical Go and TypeScript skills
Experience designing, testing and operating APIs and backend services
Experience building infrastructure automation, workflows or reconciliation systems
Understanding of retries, partial failure, concurrency, idempotency and eventual consistency
Strong Linux and production troubleshooting skills
Experience with CI/CD, observability and safe deployment practices
Practical approach to security, permissions, audit and change control
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