5 hours ago
London, United KingdomStaff+
Responsibilities
- Lead the data quality engineering team and own data correctness across Talos.
- Continuously validate REST and WebSocket APIs, cloud delivery, environments, and client entitlements against independent sources of truth.
- Design checks for streaming ordering, gap detection, snapshot-to-increment consistency, reconnect and replay behavior, subscription staleness, and REST/WebSocket agreement.
- Build adaptive detection with endpoint- and market-specific baselines instead of static thresholds.
- Apply LLM and agentic tooling to generate and maintain checks from API specifications and schemas and triage alerts.
- Design load, performance, resilience, and failure-mode tests for distributed systems.
- Drive discovered faults to resolution and add regression checks that would have detected them earlier.
- Measure and publish endpoint and field coverage, time to detect, detected-before-client rate, and false-positive rate.
- Run data governance, including data asset and API catalogs, lineage, ownership, and downstream-consumer analysis.
- Own governance tooling such as OpenMetadata.
- Lead and operate the security master platform, including listings, venue symbol mapping, contract specifications, safe updates, validation, and rollback.
- Expand data quality coverage to trade signals, pre-trade analytics, client post-trade analysis, and PMS analytics.
Requirements
- Track record leading data QA or data quality teams, preferably for market data or other high-throughput real-time data.
- Deep understanding of streaming and API behavior, including throughput, WebSocket semantics, ordering, recovery, and failure modes.
- Experience inventorying and testing a large API and data surface end to end.
- Hands-on experience with data governance, cataloging, lineage, and ownership.
- Experience with performance and load testing of distributed systems.
- Strong engineering background building platforms on shared infrastructure rather than one-off scripts.
- Practical experience applying LLM and agentic tooling to engineering problems.
- Experience with Flink, Doris, Dagster, Spark, OpenMetadata, or comparable tools such as Apache Atlas.
Benefits
- Retirement plan contributions.
- Unlimited vacation plus a $2,000 USD PTO bonus for employees taking 15 vacation days, including 5 consecutive days.
- Yearly discretionary cash bonus and employee stock options plan.
- Medical, dental, and vision insurance.
- Paid parental leave for 20 weeks after one year of service.
- Global offsites and team outings.
- One-time stipend for at-home office setup.
- $50 monthly wellness credit.
- $25 USD lunch credit for in-office days, catered Tuesday lunches, snacks, and drinks.
- Donation matching up to $100 USD annually.
- Hybrid-friendly environment with globally distributed hubs in New York, London, Singapore, and Cyprus.
Tech Stack
Categories
Data EngineeringTesting
About Talos
Talos builds an institutional digital-asset trading and portfolio management platform that spans liquidity aggregation, price discovery, execution, settlement, and reporting. Its software and APIs connect clients to exchanges, OTC desks, prime brokers, lenders, and custodians through a single interface, serving asset managers, hedge funds, and broker-dealers. Founded in 2018 and headquartered in New York, the company is privately held.