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About the Role
This cross-functional role sits within Sixth Street’s Core Engineering team, closely aligned to data and developer platforms with a horizontal view across all engineering teams. The position focuses on ensuring adherence to best practices, identifying common patterns, and factoring shared solutions into central platform capabilities. It is a hands-on, commercial role involving data pipelines, APIs, Service Oriented Architecture, and bringing POC projects to market.
Responsibilities
- Partner with development teams on complex architectural decisions, providing practical feedback.
- Collaborate with Platform and Security teams to shape and drive adoption of “Golden Paths”.
- Serve as a technical bridge between product teams and Platform Engineering, translating friction into requirements for shared capabilities.
- Mentor and influence development teams on architectural principles, design patterns, and technical trade-offs.
- Conduct hands-on technical due diligence on significant projects and architectural decisions.
- Participate in design reviews and provide guidance.
- Engage directly in design reviews, prototyping, and critical investigations.
- Balance long-term engineering quality with pragmatic business outcomes.
- Identify recurring architectural problems and patterns across teams.
- Work with Platform Engineering to determine shared capabilities versus team-specific solutions.
- Stay current on relevant technologies and industry practices.
- Evaluate new tools or approaches for strategic alignment and value.
- Collaborate across engineering, data, analytics, and infrastructure teams.
- Understand business requirements and translate them into architectural guidance.
- Champion developer experience and code quality.
- Help teams build reliable, testable, and maintainable systems.
Requirements
- 15+ years’ experience in professional software development.
- Excellent programming skills in more than one major programming language.
- Python/Java experience strongly preferred.
- Experience designing RESTful APIs.
- Experience working with relational and “NoSQL” data stores.
- Comfortable working in a Unix shell.
- Strong sense of urgency; ability to execute quickly and efficiently with strong attention to detail.
- Ability to collaborate effectively across multiple teams.
- Strong prioritization and project management skills.
- Comfort working in a high growth, iterative environment.
Skills
- Python
- Java
- React
- AWS
- Apache Airflow
- Kafka
- CDK
- Terraform
- RESTful APIs
- Relational data stores
- NoSQL data stores
- Unix shell
- CI/CD
- Developer experience
- Code quality
- Architectural principles
- Design patterns
- Technical trade-offs
- Project management
Location
- Austin, Texas
- Dallas, Texas
Work Type
- Full-time
- Onsite
Experience Level
- 15+ years
Education Level
- Degree in Computer Science or STEM field preferred
About the Company
- Sixth Street is a leading global investment firm founded in 2009.
- Our long-term oriented, highly flexible capital base and "One Team" cultural philosophy allow us to invest thematically across sectors, geographies, and asset classes.
- We aren’t looking for any single type of person. Our strength is in our team, a collection of people from different backgrounds and with their own perspectives, united in the mission of being the world’s best investment firm.
Equal Opportunity
- Sixth Street is proud to be an Equal Opportunity employer.
- We do not discriminate based upon race, religion, color, national origin, genetic history, marital status, gender (including pregnancy, childbirth, or related medical conditions), sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, age, veteran or military status, disability, genetic predisposition, status as a victim of domestic violence, a sex offense or stalking, or any other class or status in accordance with applicable federal, state and local laws.
- Pursuant to the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance, Sixth Street will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records.
- If you need a reasonable accommodation to fill out this application, please contact Cindy Bombara.
- Please refer to the privacy notice on our website for additional information regarding our obligations under the California Consumer Privacy Act (“CCPA”).
- If you are not eligible for this role, please refer to our Careers Page for other opportunities.