Databento is looking to solve the problem of building modern APIs to get financial data, and is seeking a junior software engineer to join their core engineering team to work on high-performance server applications and petabyte-scale data processing and analysis.
Requirements
- 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.
- An interest in low-level optimization and performance engineering.
- An interest in financial data or algorithmic trading.
- Prior internship experience or 1 to 3 years of full-time software engineering experience, preferably at a trading firm, tech company, or high-growth startup.
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.
Other
- Prior internship experience or 1 to 3 years of full-time software engineering experience, preferably at a trading firm, tech company, or high-growth startup.
- Good communication skills and work ethic for a remote workplace.
- 100% remote work, with teammates living around the globe and paid in their local currency.
- Health, dental, disability, and life insurance benefits, as well as 401(k) matching for full-time employees.
- Databento, Inc. provides equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, disability, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, veteran status, or genetics.
