Kubernetes Software Engineer

Company Overview: We tackle the most complex problems in quantitative finance, by bringing scientific clarity to financial complexity. From our London HQ, we unite world‑class researchers and engineers in an environment that values deep exploration and methodical execution - because the best ideas take time to evolve. Together we’re building a world‑class platform to amplify our teams’ most powerful ideas.

As part of our engineering team, you’ll shape the platforms and tools that drive high‑impact research – designing systems that scale, accelerate discovery and support innovation across the firm.

Role: The Workspace Engineering team develops cutting‑edge remote development capabilities. Hosted in Kubernetes, these solutions provide our engineers and quantitative researchers with reliable, repeatable and high‑performance Linux environments.

The ideal candidate will be an enthusiastic developer with a keen interest in technologies such as Kubernetes and remote development workflows, a commitment to best practices and a drive for continuous self‑learning. We’re seeking someone with a broad technical skill set, who is adaptable and excited to work across a range of engineering challenges. You should be comfortable applying modern tools and approaches to solve complex problems and eager to contribute to a fast‑paced, evolving environment.

Key Responsibilities:

• Building stable and well‑designed solutions which make it easy for customers to use our developer environments.
• Understanding what makes a great end‑user experience for our customers and building towards that.
• Recommending and implementing continuous improvements to platform and delivery pipelines.
• Understanding our platform's security requirements, and designing and building features and capabilities to protect our developer environment.
• Being a product evangelist, liaising with users to gather feedback and understand their workflows, providing support and working on feature requests.

Qualifications:

The ideal candidate will have the following skills and experience:

• A strong desire to learn and grow, and a track record of solving challenges in unfamiliar areas.
• Extensive experience working with Linux.
• Experience with Kubernetes administration in production‑grade environments, including maintaining Kubernetes clusters and managing operators/CRDs.
• A firm understanding of Kubernetes concepts such as containers/resources, RBAC and networking.
• Familiarity with automation through scripting, for example with Bash or Python.
• Familiarity with development practices, such as source code management and binary/dependency management using tools such as Git, GitHub and Artifactory.
• Proficiency with CI/CD pipelines and DevOps tooling across the full development lifecycle, using tools such as Jenkins, Bamboo or ArgoCD, and applying these to GitOps workflows and infrastructure‑as‑code environments.

The ideal candidate would also have at least one of the following:

• In‑depth experience with GO development, including designing, building, debugging and optimising GO applications.
• Building or maintaining other remote development environments, such as Coder, GitHub Codespaces or Gitpod.
• Building or maintaining Linux kernel drivers and components.
• Use of telemetry tools and practices within a Kubernetes context, including monitoring, tracing and logging with systems such as Prometheus, Jaeger and Grafana.
• Working knowledge of container runtimes, in particular CRI‑O, and cloud native networking, in particular Cilium.
• Familiarity working with and integrating virtualised desktop technologies, such as Citrix or VMWare.
• Experience communicating strategy and socialising change to a wide and disparate audience.

Benefits:

• Highly competitive compensation plus annual discretionary bonus.
• Lunch provided (via Just Eat for Business) and dedicated barista bar.
• 30 days’ annual leave.
• 9% company pension contributions.
• Informal dress code and excellent work/life balance.
• Comprehensive healthcare and life assurance.
• Cycle‑to‑work scheme.
• Monthly company events.

Inclusive Workplace: G-Research is committed to cultivating and preserving an inclusive work environment. We are an ideas‑driven business and we place great value on diversity of experience and opinions. We want to ensure that applicants receive a recruitment experience that enables them to perform at their best. If you have a disability or special need that requires accommodation please let us know in the relevant section.

At G-Research, we are passionate about the intersection of finance, technology, and the future. We offer a dynamic, flexible and highly stimulating culture where world‑beating ideas are cultivated and rewarded. We are proud to employ some of the best people in their field and to nurture their talent in our collaborative working environment.