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The SVP Senior C++ Market Data Engineer joins the Market Data Engineering team within the Equities Technology organization to design and deliver next-generation real-time market data distribution platforms. This role involves building performance-critical C++ components for ingestion, normalization, and fan-out while ensuring deterministic, low-latency delivery to internal consumers like Electronic Execution and analytics platforms. The engineer will manage wire-to-consumer latency, OS-level optimizations including NUMA-aware design, core pinning, and kernel tuning, alongside managing Aeron for high-performance transport and IPC. Key technical requirements include proficiency in modern C++, UDP multicast, and advanced performance profiling using histograms for tail analysis. The role addresses the complex challenge of providing accurate market data across global venues, requiring deep knowledge of exchange microstructure and regional market differences to solve critical infrastructure problems within a high-throughput trading environment.
C++
Python
Rust
TCP/UDP
Multicast
Linux Systems Programming
CI/CD
Docker
Kubernetes
FPGA
Kernel Bypass
RDMA
Order Management Systems
Distributed Systems
Performance Profiling
C++
Distributed Systems
MySQL
Aerospike
Kafka
Snowflake
AWS
Azure
GCP
Python
Microservices
Multithreading
Concurrency
Low-latency
High-availability
Systems Design
Performance Tuning