Senior Software Engineer, Core
Talos provides institutional-grade technology and data for trading and managing digital assets across the full investment lifecycle.
Maintainer signals as of 9/2/2026
Funding history
About Talos
Talos is an active institutional digital-asset trading and investment-management technology company. Its platform supports liquidity sourcing, price discovery, trading and execution, settlement, portfolio management, and post-trade analytics through a unified interface. Talos was founded in 2018, launched its live platform in August 2019, and acquired Coin Metrics in 2025.
Skills
Candidate Availability
Required and preferred rules are kept separate and reflect the wording in the original posting.
About the Role
You will build and maintain high-performance platform services, reusable core libraries, API gateways, and low-latency messaging infrastructure. You will solve distributed-systems challenges involving correctness, ordering, recovery, regional resilience, deployment, and real-time market-data distribution. You will lead technical decisions and deliver projects from design through rollout and long-term operations.
Requirements
- 7+ years of backend engineering experience
- Deep proficiency in Go, C++, Java, Rust, or similar systems languages
- Experience owning large-scale distributed systems from design through deployment, scaling, and operations
- Knowledge of concurrency primitives, memory layout, I/O models, database design, network protocols, and performance implications
- Experience designing systems with correctness guarantees for ordering, consistency, and durability
- Experience leading technical decisions, defining architecture, and making trade-offs
- Ability to diagnose latency issues at the socket or disk layer
Responsibilities
- Design, develop, and maintain high-performance platform services, API gateways, and core libraries
- Build and evolve Aeron-based messaging infrastructure for reliable, low-latency communication
- Solve distributed-systems problems involving ordering, determinism, zero-downtime deployment, active-active architectures, and crash-consistent recovery
- Ensure platform primitives meet throughput and latency requirements for real-time trading workflows and market-data distribution
- Provide reusable service infrastructure for scalable, reliable, and cost-efficient services
Benefits
- Retirement plan contributions
- Unlimited vacation
- PTO bonus
- Bonus and stock ownership
- Medical, dental, and vision insurance
- 20 weeks of paid parental leave after one year of service
- Global offsites and team outings
- One-time home-office setup stipend
- Monthly wellness credit of $50
- In-office lunch credit of $25
- Donation matching up to $100 annually
- Catered Tuesday lunches, snacks, and drinks
