2 months ago
Base Salary
$250k - $275k/yr
Responsibilities
- Design, develop, and maintain high-performance platform services, including FIX, WebSocket, and REST API gateways and reusable core libraries.
- Build and evolve Aeron-based messaging infrastructure for reliable, low-latency communication.
- Solve distributed systems challenges involving ordering and determinism, zero-downtime deployments, active-active multi-region architectures, and crash-consistent recovery.
- Collaborate cross-functionally to meet throughput and latency requirements for real-time trading workflows and large-scale market data distribution.
- Provide reusable service infrastructure for product teams to build scalable, reliable, and cost-efficient services.
Requirements
- 7+ years of backend engineering experience.
- Deep proficiency in Go, C++, Java, Rust, or similar systems languages.
- Demonstrated ownership of large-scale distributed systems from design through deployment, scaling, and long-term operations.
- Strong systems fundamentals covering concurrency primitives, memory layout, I/O models, database design, network protocols, and performance implications.
- Experience designing systems with stringent ordering, consistency, and durability guarantees.
- Ability to own projects end-to-end from problem definition through rollout and completion.
- Track record of leading technical decisions, defining architecture, making trade-offs, and aligning teams.
- Ability to work across abstraction levels, from API contract design to diagnosing socket- or disk-level latency spikes.
- Preferred experience with Aeron or comparable low-latency messaging frameworks such as Chronicle, LMAX Disruptor, or ZeroMQ.
- Preferred experience building geo-distributed or multi-site systems with active-active replication and regional failover.
- Preferred familiarity with FIX protocol 4.x/5.x or other structured financial messaging formats.
- Preferred background in trading infrastructure, market data systems, or other latency-sensitive financial platforms.
- Preferred experience with sequencer design, write-ahead logging, or custom persistence engines.
Benefits
- Hybrid-friendly work environment with remote and in-office options in a globally distributed team.
- Monthly wellness credit usable for gym memberships, massages, ski passes, and similar personal activities.
- Paid lunches in the office.
- Monthly fitness and evening social events.
- Annual offsite events.
About Talos
Empowering institutions to trade and manage digital assets Talos provides institutional-grade technology and data that supports the full digital asset investment lifecycle, including liquidity sourcing, price discovery, trading, settlement and portfolio management. Engineered by a team with unmatched experience building institutional trading, data and portfolio systems, the Talos platform connects institutions to key providers in the digital asset ecosystem – exchanges, OTC desks, prime brokers, lenders, custodians, and more – through a single interface. For additional information, visit www.talos.com.