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Databento
Posted 75 days agoVerified live 1d ago

Software Engineer (C++/C#)

Brief overview

Remote
5+ yrsMinimum
C++C#JavaAPI DesignRelease ManagementVersioningIssue TriageBackwards CompatibilitySystems ProgrammingAlgorithmsData StructuresMultithreadingNetworked I/OSerializationCPU ArchitectureKernelCompilers

About the company

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Databento is a SaaS company that offers market data APIs for real-time and historical data.

Job description

Summary

Databento is a market data platform for modern finance, providing real-time and historical data through a unified API. They are seeking a midlevel or senior Software Engineer to implement and maintain their C# client library and work on performance-sensitive parts of their codebase.

Responsibilities

  • Own and maintain our C# client library, ensuring it is robust, well-tested, and easy for external users to integrate with
  • Design, develop, and maintain high-performance server applications in C++
  • 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

Skills

  • 5+ years of full-time software engineering experience, preferably at a trading firm, tech company, or high-growth startup
  • Strong proficiency in both C++ and C#
  • Experience designing APIs with a strong focus on intuitive, developer-friendly interfaces
  • Familiarity with open source best practices, including release management, versioning, changelogs, issue triage, and backwards compatibility
  • 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
  • Experience with Java is a plus

Qualifications

Must Haves

  • 5+ years of full-time software engineering experience, preferably at a trading firm, tech company, or high-growth startup
  • Strong proficiency in both C++ and C#
  • Experience designing APIs with a strong focus on intuitive, developer-friendly interfaces
  • Familiarity with open source best practices, including release management, versioning, changelogs, issue triage, and backwards compatibility
  • 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

Nice to Haves

  • Experience with Java is a plus

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