Job Description

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About this role

BlackRock Overview

BlackRock is looking for innovative engineers who love solving complex problems. As a firm, we recognize strength comes from diversity, and will embrace your outstanding skills, curiosity, and passion while giving you the opportunity to grow technically and as an individual.

With the assets of BlackRock's clients and over 200 technology customers on Aladdin we bear a major responsibility, both as a platform provider and as a fiduciary. Our powerful technology empowers millions of investors to save for retirement, pay for college, buy a home and improve their financial wellbeing.

Team Overview

This role is part of an interdisciplinary team focusing on using cloud capabilities within BlackRocks powerful asset management platform. Members of our team have a consistent track record of solving some of the firm's most difficult problems in a scalable, resilient, and secure manner. We are passionate about solving problems through technology and are focused on utilizing the cloud to tackle large scale challenges.

This team owns the automation around provisioning, monitoring, and updating cloud infrastructure, as well as adapting our software platform to make accurate use of cloud. The team is also responsible for driving opportunities to improve our architecture using cloud and cloud-native technologies.

Security, data privacy, and system resilience are integral to the design and architecture. A candidate should have an appreciation for running platforms in the cloud with respect to security, cost, performance, and complexity. Experience implementing smart solutions in a commercial cloud is a strong plus.

A successful candidate has:

* 7-10 + years of engineering experience in an enterprise level environment

* A passion for building highly available, performant, and secure systems that our clients can trust

* An appetite for learning and applying knowledge to solve problems

* An open mind, and works well with a diverse set of people

* Skills in Java, Go, Python, or similar programming languages

* Knowledge of distributed systems and concepts such as data consistency. Experience with NoSql and/or relational databases, such as Cassandra, is a plus.

* Experience with commercial clouds and cloud native architectures

* Good communication and technical writing skills

* An education in computer science or equivalent practical experience

Our benefits

To help you stay energized, engaged and inspired, we offer a wide range of benefits including a strong retirement plan, tuition reimbursement, comprehensive healthcare, support for working parents and Flexible Time Off (FTO) so you can relax, recharge and be there for the people you care about.

About BlackRock

BlackRock's purpose is to help more and more people experience financial well-being. As a fiduciary to investors and a leading provider of financial technology, we help millions of people build savings that serve them throughout their lives by making investing easier and more affordable.



For additional information on BlackRock, please visit www.blackrock.com/corporate | Twitter: @blackrock | LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/company/blackrock

BlackRock is proud to be an Equal Opportunity and Affirmative Action Employer. We evaluate qualified applicants without regard to race, color, national origin, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, disability, protected veteran status, and other statuses protected by law.

BlackRock will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest or conviction records in a manner consistent with the requirements of the law, including any applicable fair chance law.