Software Engineer, Associate - Client & Firmwide Platforms

Blackstone is the world's largest alternative asset manager. We seek to create positive economic impact and long-term value for our investors, the companies we invest in, and the communities in which we work. We do this by using extraordinary people and flexible capital to help companies solve problems. Our $1 trillion in assets under management include investment vehicles focused on private equity, real estate, public debt and equity, infrastructure, life sciences, growth equity, opportunistic, non-investment grade credit, real assets and secondary funds, all on a global basis. Further information is available at www.blackstone.com. Follow @blackstone on LinkedIn, Twitter, and Instagram.

As a Software Engineer, you will develop and manage innovative technologies that are changing the Alternative Asset Management industry. You will design, build, deploy, test, and support functionality across a variety of stacks and platforms. Through partnering with business stakeholders, you'll drive business value while also producing great code. Internal applications are built using a highly scalable microservice architecture that is deployed via containers to our cloud hosted Kubernetes environments. Key technologies in this framework include: OpenAPI, Kafka, Terraform, Docker, AWS, .NET Core in C#, Python, Sigma, Snowflake and Appian.

You will be expected to take ownership of projects and identify business design gaps with Blackstone business analysts. You'll tackle a variety of problems from scaling out infrastructure to promoting business efficiency through automating contract creation. You'll devise elegant solutions to Blackstone's most important problems and put your own best ideas to work in an entrepreneurial environment inside one of the world's most successful companies.

Responsibilities:

• Drive the modernization of one or more BXTI application platforms, using cutting edge technology
• Build, maintain and integrate web applications and micro-services, on a variety of platforms
• Use modern software development methodologies and tools like JIRA to manage and deliver projects
• Follow scalable architectural practices to build fault tolerant distributed systems
• Write automated unit, integration, and deployment tests
• Develop software defined infrastructure
• Design data models and persist data to MySQL and Snowflake
• Automate deployments in coordination with Platform and DevOps engineers
• Identify opportunities to automate away repetitive tasks
• Lead technical design and code reviews to drive projects towards the best results
• Promote, implement, and evolve development best practices

Qualifications:

• 3+ years of software engineering experience
• Strong object-oriented programming experience in any language
• Possess SQL Server or other database technology
• An ability to drive your projects from inception to completion
• Willingness to teach, coach, and mentor others
• An ability to produce high quality code and solicit feedback
• Willingness to take a position and share views freely in a constructive and solution-based manner
• Experience in one or more of messaging, search, caching, automation and UI frameworks is a plus

The duties and responsibilities described here are not exhaustive and additional assignments, duties, or responsibilities may be required of this position. Assignments, duties, and responsibilities may be changed at any time, with or without notice, by Blackstone in its sole discretion.

Expected annual base salary range:

$95,000 - $160,000

Actual base salary within that range will be determined by several components including but not limited to the individual's experience, skills, qualifications and job location. For roles located outside of the US, please disregard the posted salary bands as these roles will follow a separate compensation process based on local market comparables.

Additional compensation: Base salary does not include other forms of compensation or benefits offered in connection with the advertised role.

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If you need a reasonable accommodation to complete your application, please email Human Resources at [email protected].

Depending on the position, you may be required to obtain certain securities licenses if you are in a client facing role and/or if you are engaged in the following:

• Attending client meetings where you are discussing Blackstone products and/or and client questions;
• Marketing Blackstone funds to new or existing clients;
• Supervising or training securities licensed employees;
• Structuring or creating Blackstone funds/products; and
• Advising on marketing plans prepared by a sales team or developing and/or contributing information for marketing materials.

Note: The above list is not the exhaustive list of activities requiring securities licenses and there may be roles that require review on a case-by-case basis. Please speak with your Blackstone Recruiting contact with any questions.

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