Operations Engineer, Account Management

About the Technology Department
The Technology team at Bridgewater engineers’ systems to understand the world. These systems synthesize and industrialize our global understanding into a hive mind of macroeconomic knowledge which enables us to educate and collaborate with the world’s most influential central banks and policy makers and carefully and strategically manage the world’s most important capital. Our technologists are engineering highly available, high performing and highly secure cloud platforms and infrastructure which support and scale our investing operations.

 About the Team

The goal of the Account Management (AM) department is to translate our understanding of how the global economy works into strategy specific portfolios. Embedded within the Account Management department is a uniquely talented technology team that builds and manages the tools that allow our portfolio strategists, investors, and operations teams to create and test new portfolio strategies and logic, construct portfolios, and manifest our desired portfolios to securities we can trade in the markets.

About the Role

As part of our plan to increase support of our global time zones, we are looking to add Operations Engineers to our Portfolio Management group within the broader AM team. This will cover an extension of our coverage from ~3pm EST – 12am Eastern which will form the basis of the working day.

 You Will Drive the Following Responsibilities

• Intake and Triage systems and applications issues, understanding the problem, scope, and urgency
• Establish and Communicate a clear plan of action
• Technical investigation and follow resolution or escalation processes accordingly
• Working through ad-hoc systems improvements as “prevention is preferred to cure”

Minimum Qualifications

• Technical troubleshooting experience across a broad contemporary technical stack (cloud, infra, applications, code, data)
• Experience utilizing SQL, writing SQL scripts, and interrogating databases
• Experience diagnosing and fixing complex backend systems with contemporary programming languages, patterns, and architectures
• Programming experience with C# or Scala is a plus, other languages are also acceptable.
• Computer science fundamentals with exposure to backend platform-level development
• 5+ Years of professional software development experience

Location Requirements

We are able offer this role as fully remote within the USA with estimated quarterly trips to Connecticut for meetings, planning and training. We are also open to this role being performed as hybrid with two days per week in our Westport, CT office.

Compensation Band

The compensation range for this role is $150,000 to $250,000 inclusive of base salary and discretionary bonus. The expected base salary for this role is between 80-90% of the range.

Bridgewater Employee Benefits

One of our core priorities at Bridgewater is to enable our employees to build a great life and career, and we believe our benefits are an important extension of that philosophy. As such, currently Bridgewater offers a competitive suite of benefits including:

• Health insurance with 100% premium covered and access to additional concierge medical services
• 401(k) plan with generous employer match
• Paid time off, including fully paid parental leave and a competitive PTO package
• Workplace flexibility and access to back up childcare
• Financial assistance for family building support, including adoption and egg freezing
• Workplace wellness, including on-site gyms, free meals and healthy snacks, and meditation rooms
• An engaged and active community that includes many company events, affinity networks, and extracurricular interest groups

Bridgewater reserves the right to change its current benefits program at any time, in a manner that is consistent with applicable federal and state regulations

About Bridgewater

Bridgewater Associates is a premier asset management firm, focused on delivering unique insight and partnership for the most sophisticated global institutional investors. Our investment process is driven by a tireless pursuit to understand how the world’s markets and economies work — using cutting edge technology to validate and execute on timeless and universal investment principles.

Founded in 1975, we are a community of independent thinkers who share a commitment for excellence. By fostering a culture of openness, transparency, and inclusion, we strive to unlock the most complex questions in investment strategy, management, and corporate culture.

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Our Culture

Bridgewater’s unique success is the direct result of our unique way of being. We want an idea meritocracy in which meaningful work and meaningful relationships are pursued through radical truth and radical transparency. We require people to be extremely open, air disagreements, test each other’s logic, and view discovering mistakes and weaknesses as a good thing that leads to improvement and innovation. It is by continually striving together for the highest levels of truth and excellence that we create meaningful work and meaningful relationships. Within this culture, Diversity and Inclusion is a top priority because it is essential to finding the best talent in the world, enabling our idea meritocracy, and creating an environment where all types of people can thrive. We have a full-time team as well as affinity networks that work on these issues - If you would like to learn more, please let your Bridgewater recruiter know.

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This job description is not a contract and confers no contractual rights, privileges, or benefits on any applicant or potential applicant. Bridgewater has the right to change any and all terms of this job description, including, but not limited to, job responsibilities, qualifications and benefits. Nothing in this job description constitutes an offer or guarantee of employment. Please note that we provide immigration sponsorship for this position.

Bridgewater Associates, LP is an Equal Opportunity Employer