3 months ago
Remote, United States +4 moreMid Level / Senior
H1B sponsor
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 code for throughput of millions of messages per second and low latency measured in nanoseconds.
- Implement tools and libraries for petabyte-scale data processing and analysis.
- Collaborate with the systems team on build, deployment, and CI/CD practices.
- Implement monitoring, improve application uptime, and support smooth feature rollouts and updates.
Requirements
- 5+ years of full-time software engineering experience, preferably at a trading firm, technology 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, kernels, and compilers.
- Experience with multiprocess environments.
- Comfort using lldb or gdb.
- Interest in low-level optimization, performance engineering, financial data, or algorithmic trading.
- Strong communication skills and work ethic for a remote workplace.
Benefits
- Remote workplace
About Databento
Databento makes it simpler and faster to get market data. Our self-service model allows users to instantly pick up live exchange feeds and terabytes of historical data - and only pay for what they use. Databento provides both historical and real-time data, both raw PCAPs and normalized data, both usage-based pricing and affordable monthly subscriptions, as well as connectivity solutions. Since launching 3 years ago, Databento has gained over 60,000 customers, from early-stage startups to the largest financial institutions in the world. Databento's team has walked in the shoes of its customers, bringing years of experience running high-frequency trading desks from firms like Two Sigma, Flow Traders, Virtu, and Tower Research.