Senior Staff Software Engineer C++ Trading Service
OKX is a leading global cryptocurrency exchange offering a wide range of trading services, including spot and derivatives trading, as well as Web3 solutions.
Maintainer signals as of 9/24/2026
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About OKX
OKX is a global cryptocurrency exchange known for its trading services and financial products. The platform offers a wide range of features, including spot and derivatives trading, staking services, and a user-friendly interface suitable for both beginners and experienced traders.
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About the Role
You will lead architecture and development for high-performance C++ trading systems. You will design reliable distributed systems, take work from proposal through production validation, solve low-level performance challenges, improve architecture, build quality safeguards, investigate production issues, and mentor engineers.
Requirements
- 5+ years of hands-on software engineering experience
- Experience building production C++ systems
- Experience designing and evolving complex systems
- Knowledge of concurrency, multithreading, network programming, and performance optimisation in Linux environments
- Experience with distributed consistency, high availability, fault tolerance, disaster recovery, or reliability design
- Knowledge of networking protocols, operating systems, memory, storage, and runtime behaviour
- Debugging, analysis, automated testing, simulation, replay, and experiment-validation experience
- Current right to work in Singapore without requiring visa sponsorship
Responsibilities
- Lead the architecture, design, and development of high-performance C++ trading systems
- Design distributed systems for consistency, fault tolerance, disaster recovery, and resilience
- Own technical proposals, design reviews, refactoring, implementation, deployment, debugging, replay, and validation
- Solve networking, protocol, concurrency, memory-management, performance, and operating-system challenges
- Identify systemic architectural issues and redesign components
- Build automated testing, failure-injection, stability-validation, monitoring, and replay safeguards
- Design experiments to validate architecture and diagnose production issues
- Apply AI-assisted engineering practices across development and incident analysis
- Raise engineering standards through reviews and technical discussions
- Mentor engineers and create documentation, playbooks, technical sessions, and reusable frameworks
Benefits
- Team-building programs and company events
- Wellness and meal allowances
- Healthcare coverage for employees and dependants
