Senior Software Engineer / Sre - Trade Automation & Execution

Bloomberg LP

New York, NY, US
Base: $160,000 - $240,000 usd annual; bonus/equity...
On-site
5+ years professional experience
Python java or c++ programming
Unix linux fundamentals
The role involves ensuring real-time trading platforms scale safely and recover gracefully from failures under extreme market conditions

Job Summary

  • The role involves ensuring real-time trading platforms scale safely and recover gracefully from failures under extreme market conditions.
  • Engineers will design and run chaos engineering experiments to validate system capacity and resilience against production risks.
  • The position offers the opportunity to work on high-stakes distributed systems relied upon by leading global financial institutions.

Matching Summary

The role involves ensuring real-time trading platforms scale safely and recover gracefully from failures under extreme market conditions.

Salary

Base: $160,000 - $240,000 USD Annual; Bonus/Equity: Incentive compensation (exempt roles only); Benefits: Comprehensive medical, dental, vision, 401(k) match, paid time off

Skills & Requirements

Must-have

  • 5+ years professional experience
  • Python Java or C++ programming
  • Unix Linux fundamentals
  • Distributed system scaling
  • Metrics monitoring observability

Nice-to-have

  • Chaos engineering fault injection
  • Blameless postmortem writing
  • Game day incident exercises
  • Cross-functional collaboration
  • Real-time trading domain knowledge

Key Requirements

  • 5+ years of professional software engineering experience
  • Strong analytical skills for complex system behavior
  • Experience triaging scaling issues in production

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