Lead, Tech (Python Infra)

D. E. Shaw India · Hyderabad

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Lead, Tech (Python Infra) at D. E. Shaw India

We are looking for a Software Developer to join our Python Infrastructure team based in the firm’s offices in Hyderabad/Bengaluru/Gurugram.

The team focuses on building and maintaining software infrastructure in Python that powers a lot of applications across the firm.
The team delivers infrastructure solutions for analytic computations, data storage, and data services, which are developed primarily in Python.

Products developed and maintained by the team form the basis of a lot of other applications across the firm that are critical to the day-to-day activities of the firm.
As a member of the Python Infrastructure team, you will be responsible for building the Python foundation for the firm.
They work on efficient data storage and retrieval, creating high-performing and easy-to-use data structures and data analysis tools, parallel programming where they support effective use of our grid in Python, building server infrastructure that teams can use to make their own web servers, and building unit testing and documentation infrastructure in Python.
The team strives for high performance in these foundational infra by doing a lot of optimizations of core libraries in lower-level languages and using compilation techniques in Python.