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Remote · New York, US
senior
4 months ago
full-time
quality 8.3/10
closed
- Design, develop, and maintain high-performance platform services including API gateways (FIX, WebSocket, REST), and the core libraries that product teams across Talos build on.
- Build and evolve Aeron-based messaging infrastructure for reliable, low-latency communication.
- Tackle hard distributed systems problems end-to-end: ordering and determinism guarantees, zero-downtime deployments, active-active architectures spanning cloud regions, and crash-consistent recovery.
- Work cross-functionally to ensure platform primitives meet the throughput and latency requirements of real-time trading workflows, including market data distribution at scale.
- Provide product teams with reusable service infrastructure to build scalable, reliable, and cost-efficient services.
- 7+ years of backend engineering experience with deep proficiency in Go, C++, Java, Rust or similar systems languages.
- Demonstrated ownership of large-scale distributed systems, from initial design through deployment, scaling, and long-term operations.
- Strong systems-level fundamentals: concurrency primitives, memory layout, I/O models, database design, network protocols, and the performance implications of each.
- Experience designing systems with stringent correctness guarantees — ordering, consistency, durability — not just ones that work under normal conditions.
- Own projects end-to-end: take work from problem definition through design, implementation, and rollout, and see it through to completion without needing to be chased.
- Track record of leading technical decisions: navigating ambiguity, defining architecture, making meaningful trade-offs, and bringing a team along on the reasoning.
- Comfortable operating at multiple levels of abstraction, from API contract design down to diagnosing latency spikes at the socket or disk layer.
- Retirement plan contributions
- Unlimited Vacation + a PTO bonus: Employees that take 15 days of vacation, with 5 days being consecutive, receive a $2000 USD bonus.
- Bonus and stock ownership
- Medical, dental, and vision insurance
- Paid parental leave for 20 weeks, after 1 year of service
- Global offsites and team outings
- A one-time stipend towards at-home office set-up for all employees
- A wellness credit of $50 accrued monthly, to go towards things like gym memberships, ski-passes, and work out classes.
- A lunch credit of $25 USD towards lunches for days in-office
- Donation matching up to $100 USD annually
- Other in-office perks: Catered lunches on Tuesdays, snacks, and drinks