Software Engineer (C++/Rust)

What this role involves

Databento is hiring a midlevel or senior software engineer to work on high-performance server applications in C/C++ and Rust, handling petabyte-scale financial data. The role involves optimizing for low latency and high throughput, implementing message parsers and feed handlers, and collaborating with the systems team. The position is remote and requires 5+ years of experience.

Skills this posting asks for

• c
• c++
• rust
• systems programming
• algorithms
• data structures
• multithreading
• networked i/o
• serialization
• cpu architecture
• kernel
• compilers
• lldb
• gdb
• low-level optimization
• performance engineering
• financial data
• algorithmic trading
• high performance computing
• server applications
• data processing
• petabyte-scale
• monitoring
• ci/cd

Requirements

• 5 years of experience
• Level: senior
• Remote policy: remote

From the employer’s posting

The financial industry is growing at a record pace, but our data providers are still stuck in the past — with cumbersome onboarding processes, complicated APIs, slow infrastructure, and expensive licensing costs. Databento is the market data platform for modern finance.…