Software Engineer III

Job Description

Software Engineer III

About the Firm

Firm Mission

“Achieving Client Success through Research and Technology”

Los Angeles Capital, the “Firm”, is a global equity manager of assets for leading institutions around the world. The Firm is recognized as a pioneer in dynamic equity management, utilizing proprietary technology to engineer equity portfolios that adapt to today’s equity market. The Firm’s senior investment professionals have worked together for three decades developing models for measuring and forecasting return and risk of global equity securities. The Firm manages approximately $40.1 billion as of December 31, 2025, across a wide variety of public equity strategies designed to meet institutional client return and risk objectives. The Firm has been ranked for seven years in a row by Pensions and Investments as one of the “Best Places to Work in Money Management.” The Firm’s working environment places a strong focus on teamwork and values work-life balance. The Firm offers a competitive compensation package that includes health care plans, 401(k), and top-tier benefits. The Firm is 100% employee-owned through a holding company structure and seeks to retain and motivate employees’ long term. Los Angeles Capital firmly believes the quality and commitment of the individuals are vital to the success of the Firm, ensuring that client expectations are exceeded.

Position Overview

Reporting to the Managing Director, Investment Management Systems, the Software Engineer III will work with the Firm’s development team and be primarily responsible for the on-going design, development, and production support of the firm’s proprietary investment models. The team also supports tools and processes related to investment decision making, trading and back-office operations. The Software Engineer III must possess excellent programming skills.

Key Job Responsibilities

Design, implement, and maintain CI/CD pipelines for model/data platform code, infrastructure changes, and application deployments across Snowflake, Databricks, and supporting services.

Build and manage cloud infrastructure using infrastructure-as-code tools such as Terraform ensuring environments are reproducible, version-controlled, and auditable.

Implement monitoring, logging, and alerting solutions to ensure platform reliability and rapid incident response across all data infrastructure components.

Automate environment provisioning, secrets management, and configuration management to reduce manual processes and improve consistency.

Collaborate with data engineers on orchestration tool evaluation and deployment, ensuring chosen tools are properly integrated into the infrastructure and CI/CD workflows.

Support the data governance program by implementing technical controls for data access, audit logging, and environment isolation that align with the firm's governance framework.

Manage container orchestration and compute infrastructure as needed for data processing workloads and internal tooling.

Create and maintain runbooks, architectural diagrams, disaster recovery plans, and operational documentation.

Participate in on-call rotations and lead incident response for model/data platform infrastructure issues.

Skills and Knowledge Required

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Systems Engineering, or a related technical field.

4-7+ years of professional experience in DevOps, site reliability engineering, platform engineering, or infrastructure roles.

Strong experience with Azure, including core services such as compute, storage, networking, and authentication.

Proficiency with infrastructure-as-code tools, particularly Terraform.

Hands-on experience building and managing CI/CD pipelines using tools such as GitHub Actions or Azure DevOps.

Solid scripting and automation skills in Python, Bash, or similar languages.

Experience with containerization (Docker) and familiarity with orchestration platforms such as Kubernetes or ECS.

Strong understanding of networking, security, and identity management in cloud environments.

Experience with version control workflows in Git, including branching strategies and code review processes.

Solid understanding of software backend and frontend

Strong user support, accurate and logical problem solving and communication skills

Ability to work in a team environment

Strong sense of ownership, urgency, and drive

Skills and Knowledge Desired

Familiarity with the financial services industry and associated regulatory or compliance requirements.

Experience with data orchestration tools such as Apache Airflow, Dagster, or Prefect from an infrastructure and deployment perspective.

Knowledge of cost management and FinOps practices for cloud and SaaS platforms.

Experience implementing observability stacks using tools like Splunk, Grafana, Prometheus, or PagerDuty.

This is a hybrid position based in Los Angeles, CA which requires weekly attendance.

No recruiters, please.

Los Angeles Capital is an SEC registered investment adviser and required to track certain political contributions under rule 206(4)-5. Therefore, you will be required to disclose your prior political contributions.

Los Angeles Capital is an Affirmative Action/Equal Opportunity Employer committed to providing employment opportunity without regard to an individual’s race, color, religion, age, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, national origin, ancestry, marital status, medical condition, genetic information, veteran status or disability.

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Full-time

Hybrid remote