We9re looking for a midlevel or senior IC to join our core engineering team. Our team is responsible for all things C/C++ and Rust, and the most performance-sensitive parts of our codebase. You9ll be working with nearly 20 PB of data, with thousands of bare metal CPU cores at your disposal.
Responsibilities- Design, develop, and maintain high-performance server applications in C/C++ and Rust.
- Write message parsers and feed handlers for direct market data feeds from trading venues.
- Optimize existing codebase for high throughput (millions of messages per second, up to 40+ gigabits) and low latency (measured in nanoseconds).
- Implement tools and libraries for petabyte-scale data processing and analysis.
- Collaborate with the systems team to implement best practices for build, deployment, CI/CD.
- Implement monitoring and improve application uptime.
- Ensure smooth feature rollouts and updates.
Preferred background- 5+ years of full-time software engineering experience, preferably at a trading firm, tech company, or high-growth startup.
- Strong proficiency in C/C++ or Rust.
- Knowledge of systems programming, algorithms, data structures, multithreading, networked I/O, serialization, CPU architecture, kernel, and compilers.
- Experience working with multiprocess environments.
- Comfortable with lldb/gdb.
- Good communication skills and work ethic for a remote workplace.
- An interest in low-level optimization and performance engineering.
- An interest in financial data or algorithmic trading.
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