Senior Risk Engineer, Investment Engineering

Position Overview

At Apollo, we are a global team of alternative investment managers passionate about delivering uncommon value to our investors and shareholders. With over 30 years of proven expertise across Private Equity, Credit, and Real Assets in various regions and industries, we are known for our integrated businesses, our strong investment performance, our value-oriented philosophy, and our people. 

The Investment Engineering risk team develops Risk Management capabilities that support Apollo's complex and unique strategies, and partners cross-functionally to design and deliver the infrastructure required for effective execution and investment management.

We are seeking a Senior Risk Engineer to join our New York office and own the architecture of a greenfield, event-driven, real-time credit risk and P&L platform, working directly with the Credit Risk Management team, portfolio managers and Trading. This is a build-and-own role for a hands-on software engineer who has designed and delivered production risk platforms, still writes code, and uses AI to build faster. Foundational architecture decisions are still being made, and you will help make them.

The platform is being built in Python and Java with Kafka, Materialize and Snowflake. You will be part of a global Investment Engineering team, collaborating with engineering and risk colleagues across New York, London and Mumbai.

Primary Responsibilities

• Lead the architecture, design and delivery of Apollo's next-generation real-time credit risk platform, from foundational decisions through production.

• Partner directly with risk managers, quants, portfolio managers and traders as the engineering owner of their risk and P&L tooling: gather requirements first-hand, shape and prioritize the risk and P&L roadmap with them, and present technical direction and trade-offs to senior stakeholders up to Partner level.

• Deliver reliable, well-tested code, staying hands-on.

• Own the risk product and platform lifecycle, from requirements and roadmap through analysis, coding, deployment, production support, reliability, observability and ongoing enhancement, as the accountable owner for their users.

• Own data quality and controls across the risk and P&L platform you build, so numbers are accurate, explainable and trusted by users.

• Partner with the teams that run end-of-day risk and P&L to strengthen and modernize those processes, including P&L explain and attribution, reconciliation and controls, and progressively bringing EOD and real-time onto a consistent platform.

• Set engineering standards through design discussions, peer code reviews and team knowledge sharing, mentoring engineers and raising the engineering bar across the team.

• Build new tools and integrate existing internal and external tools into Apollo's risk infrastructure.

• Use AI tooling heavily in development and help deliver AI-enabled features such as natural language querying, AI-assisted scenario generation and agent-driven workflows.

Qualifications & Experience

• Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related field.

• 10+ years of technology experience, including at least 3 years in a front office, trading or risk technology environment.

• Proven track record of designing, building and owning (or leading a major modernization of) risk management software in production, covering both end-of-day and live risk, and leading its architecture.

• Production development experience in Java, or in C++ or C# alongside Python. Python alone is not sufficient.  Web development is a plus.

• Exposure to risk solutions across asset classes; credit products experience (for example CDS, CLOs, bonds, loans or structured credit) strongly preferred.

• Working knowledge of risk factor modeling, P&L attribution and scenario analysis from the platform side. This is an engineering role, not a quantitative modeling role.

• Strong database skills (SQL and/or NoSQL), with experience in query optimization and data management.

• Hands-on experience with event-driven and streaming architectures (for example Kafka) and working knowledge of DevOps practices (CI/CD, Docker, Kubernetes, Git).

• Experience delivering applications end to end in Agile development environments.

• Experience working directly with portfolio managers, risk managers or traders.

• Practical experience using AI tooling in software development, and interest in building AI-enabled features.

• Strong initiative, entrepreneurial mindset, and ability to balance multiple priorities in a fast-paced environment.

• Collaborative approach with the ability to partner effectively across levels of seniority and all business areas.

ABOUT APOLLO

Apollo is a high-growth, global alternative asset manager. In our asset management business, we seek to provide our clients excess return at every point along the risk-reward spectrum from investment grade to private equity with a focus on three investing strategies: yield, hybrid, and equity. For more than three decades, our investing expertise across our fully integrated platform has served the financial return needs of our clients and provided businesses with innovative capital solutions for growth. Through Athene, our retirement services business, we specialize in helping clients achieve financial security by providing a suite of retirement savings products and acting as a solutions provider to institutions. Our patient, creative, and knowledgeable approach to investing aligns our clients, businesses we invest in, our employees, and the communities we impact, to expand opportunity and achieve positive outcomes.

OUR PURPOSE AND CORE VALUES

Our clients rely on our investment acumen to help secure their future. We must never lose our focus and determination to be the best investors and most trusted partners on their behalf. We strive to be:

The leading provider of retirement income solutions to institutions, companies, and individuals.

The leading provider of capital solutions to companies. Our breadth and scale enable us to deliver capital for even the largest projects – and our small firm mindset ensures we will be a thoughtful and dedicated partner to these organizations. We are committed to helping them build stronger businesses.

A leading contributor to addressing some of the biggest issues facing the world today – such as energy transition, accelerating the adoption of new technologies, and social impact – where innovative approaches to investing can make a positive difference.

We are building a unique firm of extraordinary colleagues who:

Outperform expectations

Challenge Convention

Champion Opportunity

Lead responsibly

Drive collaboration

As One Apollo team, we believe that doing great work and having fun go hand in hand, and we are proud of what we can achieve together.

OUR BENEFITS

Apollo relies on its people to keep it a leader in alternative investment management, and the firm’s benefit programs are crafted to offer meaningful coverage for both you and your family. Please reach out to your Human Capital Business Partner for more detailed information on specific benefits.

ABOUT APOLLO

Apollo is a high-growth, global alternative asset manager. In our asset management business, we seek to provide our clients excess return at every point along the risk-reward spectrum from investment grade credit to private equity. For more than three decades, our investing expertise across our fully integrated platform has served the financial return needs of our clients and provided businesses with innovative capital solutions for growth. Through Athene, our retirement services business, we specialize in helping clients achieve financial security by providing a suite of retirement savings products and acting as a solutions provider to institutions. Our patient, creative, and knowledgeable approach to investing aligns our clients, businesses we invest in, our employees, and the communities we impact, to expand opportunity and achieve positive outcomes. As of March 31, 2026, Apollo had approximately $1.03 trillion of assets under management. To learn more, please visit www.apollo.com .

OUR PURPOSE AND CORE VALUES

We are building something rare: a firm where extraordinary people can do the best work of their careers — and build whole careers here. We play to win, we operate with no walls, and we are uncompromising about what we expect from one another. This is a place where the best idea wins, every voice is expected to be heard, and we can count on each other in the moments that matter. That is what it means to be One Apollo.

 

We ask “what if” to create what is, because yesterday’s strategies may not solve tomorrow’s challenges. The answer? Rigorous thinking and innovative solutions for an ever-changing world. Our clients rely on our investment acumen to help secure their future. We must never lose our focus and determination to be the best investors and most trusted partners on their behalf. We strive to be:

The leading provider of retirement income solutions to institutions, companies, and individuals.

The leading provider of capital solutions to companies. Our breadth and scale enable us to deliver capital for even the largest projects – and our small firm mindset ensures we will be a thoughtful and dedicated partner to these organizations. We are committed to helping them build stronger businesses.

A leading contributor to addressing some of the biggest issues facing the world today – such as energy transition, accelerating the adoption of new technologies, and social impact – where innovative approaches to investing can make a positive difference.

As principal investors, we invest alongside our clients, combining disciplined underwriting with our integrated platform to deliver solutions across market cycles.

We have built a leading alternative asset management and retirement services platform by staying true to our core principles of:

Clean Sheet Thinking

No Walls

Flat and Informal

Principal Mindset

Right Over Easy

Life’s Work

 

As One Apollo team, we believe that doing great work and having fun go hand in hand, and we are proud of what we can achieve together.  

To learn more about our unique culture and what makes Apollo Apollo, please review our culture deck: Apollo Culture Deck

 

OUR BENEFITS

Apollo is committed to providing innovative and competitive benefits that support the wellbeing of our employees and their families around the globe.

The base salary range for this position is :

$220,000 – $275,000

This position is also eligible for a discretionary annual bonus based on personal, team, and Firm performance.  Compensation ranges are based on several factors including job function, level, and geographic location.  Final offer amounts are determined by multiple factors including candidate experience and expertise, and may vary from the amounts listed here.  

Apollo Global Management, Inc. (together with its subsidiaries and affiliates) is committed to championing opportunity.

The firm and its affiliates comply with applicable discrimination and equal opportunities legislation in all of its jurisdictions and do not discriminate in employment or recruitment based on race, color, religion, gender, national origin, veteran status, disability, age, citizenship, marital or domestic/civil partnership status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression or any other protected characteristic under applicable law.

The contents of the qualifications and experience section of this job description are a guideline only. If an applicant can otherwise demonstrate their suitability for the role they will be considered.