Staff Software Engineer - Market Data

Skills

About the Role

You will design, build, and operate distributed systems that ingest, normalize, process, store, and deliver realtime market data. You will create streaming services and client APIs, improve data quality and service objectives, investigate incidents, and own production services including on-call support. You will use AI-assisted development, lead technical decisions, write designs, and mentor engineers.

Requirements

• Experience building and operating distributed backend or data services with demanding reliability and performance requirements
• Experience with realtime streaming systems, including concurrency, state management, backpressure, and recovery
• Strong computer science fundamentals and backend engineering skills
• Ability to turn ambiguous requirements into pragmatic designs and production services
• Clear written communication and ability to work effectively with a distributed team
• Financial or market-data experience at a financial institution

Responsibilities

• Design and build distributed systems for realtime market-data ingestion, normalization, processing, storage, and delivery
• Build and operate streaming solutions that handle ordering, timestamps, duplicates, replay, gaps, recovery, blockchain reorganizations, and finality
• Build reliable client feeds and APIs with delivery contracts, schema evolution, access controls, and predictable behavior under load
• Partner on reference-data models and historical-data capture
• Define and improve service objectives and data-quality measures
• Instrument latency, freshness, completeness, and correctness
• Debug independently and drive root-cause analysis to durable fixes
• Own services through deployment and production support, including on-call participation
• Use AI to explore designs, implement changes, test, investigate failures, and improve documentation
• Lead technical decisions, write designs, and mentor engineers

Benefits

• Employee equity scheme with a heavily discounted strike price and a 10-year exercise window
• 5 weeks of PTO plus local public holidays that can be swapped
• Remote-first work with flexible working hours
• Private medical, dental, and vision insurance
• Paid parental leave: 16 weeks for primary caregivers and 6 weeks for secondary caregivers, plus a two-week phased return at full pay
• Quarterly company or team offsites
• Yearly travel allowance for co-working with colleagues
• At-home setup allowance or paid local co-working desk
• Annual learning and development allowance
• Dune swag