Senior Engineer II, Platform, Identity & Operations

Job Description

Acadian Asset Management is a global, systematic investment manager specializing in data-driven investing. They are seeking a Senior Engineer II to build and evolve their Identity and Configuration Platform, focusing on developing APIs and services to standardize identity and operational patterns across the firm.

Responsibilities

* Build and maintain APIs, services, libraries and patterns to standardize services we own across the stack
* Develop reusable platform capabilities to reduce duplication and eliminate one-off solutions across teams
* Improve the daily experience of all users at the firm within our domain
* Partner with engineering teams to integrate platform services into their applications and workflows
* Operate and support critical platform services, including participation in an on-call rotation
* Automate operational workflows to improve reliability, observability and incident response
* Contribute to architectural direction and continuously improve the firm's identity and access strategy
* Mentor peers and help raise the engineering bar across the organization
* Team operates in pair programming sessions for better than 90% of the working day

Skills

* BS in in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Electronic Engineering, Information Technology, or a directly related field plus 3 years of related software engineering experience. (7 years of experience without BS degree)
* At least 2 years of prior experience, financial services exposure is a plus
* Strong backend engineering experience in one or more of: Go, Python or TypeScript
* Comfortable working across Linux-based systems and scripting (e.g., Bash, PowerShell)
* Experience with Infrastructure as Code (Terraform preferred)
* Experience building APIs, services, or shared platform components used by other engineers
* Solid understanding of software design principles, including modularity, testability, and maintainability
* Hands-on experience with AWS and cloud-native architecture
* Familiarity with Kubernetes (EKS preferred) and containerized systems
* Understanding of authentication and authorization concepts (OAuth2, OIDC, SAML, tokens)
* Experience with identity providers (e.g., Okta, Entra ID)
* Claude, ChatGPT, Cursor and other AI model experience a plus

Benefits

* Discretionary incentive compensation
* Comprehensive benefits program
* Health
* Retirement
* Wellness offerings

Company Overview
* Acadian Asset Management LLC is an investment adviser headquartered in Boston, Massachusetts. It was founded in 1986, and is headquartered in Boston, Massachusetts, USA, with a workforce of 201-500 employees. Its website is https://www.acadian-inc.com/.

* Company H1B Sponsorship
* Acadian Asset Management has a track record of offering H1B sponsorships, with 9 in 2025, 7 in 2024, 11 in 2023, 17 in 2022, 9 in 2021, 7 in 2020. Please note that this does not guarantee sponsorship for this specific role.