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Software Engineer (C++/C#)

Databento · Remote / Boston / Salt Lake City / San Francisco / New York · Remote

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About Databento

Databento provides real-time and historical market data APIs. Access data for equities, futures, options, and more with one integration. Sign up for $125 in free credits. Backed by NEA.

About the role

We're looking for a midlevel or senior IC to join our core engineering team. You'll be responsible for implementing and maintaining our C# client library, and also working alongside our core engineering team on the most performance-sensitive parts of our codebase.

What they're looking for

  • Own and maintain our C# client library, ensuring it is robust, well-tested, and easy for external users to integrate with
  • Design, develop, and maintain high-performance server applications in C++
  • Write message parsers and feed handlers for direct market data feeds from trading venues
  • Optimize existing codebase for high throughput (millions of messages per second, up to 40+ gigabits) and low latency (measured in nanoseconds)
  • Implement tools and libraries for petabyte-scale data processing and analysis
  • Collaborate with the systems team to implement best practices for build, deployment, CI/CD
More about this role

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. The company provides real-time and historical data across futures, options, and equities through a unified API. By owning the entire market data stack end-to-end, Databento is the first platform of its kind to combine the performance and reliability demanded by the world's leading trading firms with a dramatically simpler developer experience. Our team includes alumni of Two Sigma, Citadel Securities, Flow Traders, Tower Research, PDT Partners, SIG, and other top quantitative firms.

We're looking for a midlevel or senior IC to join our core engineering team. You'll be responsible for implementing and maintaining our C# client library, and also working alongside our core engineering team on the most performance-sensitive parts of our codebase.

  • Own and maintain our C# client library, ensuring it is robust, well-tested, and easy for external users to integrate with.
  • Design, develop, and maintain high-performance...

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