Software Engineer - Market Data

About Clear Street:

• Design, develop, and maintain real-time data pipelines to handle financial market data with low latency and high throughput in a resilient manner.
• Work with various asset classes such as equities, options, futures, and other financial instruments to ensure timely and accurate data processing.
• Collaborate with product, trading, and risk teams to understand requirements and deliver high-quality solutions that meet business needs.
• Develop efficient mechanisms for integrating market data feeds from exchanges and other sources into our systems.
• Troubleshoot and resolve performance issues, data discrepancies, and ensure data integrity across the pipeline.
• Continuously monitor the performance and health of data pipelines, identifying and mitigating potential issues before they impact system performance.

• You have at least 8+ years of professional experience implementing low-latency, high-throughput data pipelines
• Solid understanding of distributed systems and the challenges involved in real-time data pipelines (e.g., data consistency, fault tolerance, scalability).
• Familiarity with financial market data, including security prices, and asset classes like equities, options, futures, etc...
• Strong familiarity with Linux/BSD
• Familiarity with TCP/IP and UDP (Unicast/Multicast) networking
• You communicate technical ideas with ease and always look to collaborate to deliver high quality products.
• You are a team player, with experience working effectively with other engineers toward common goals

• Experience with system profiling with eBPF
• Experience with columnar storage and database systems
• Kernel bypass networking (DPDK or XDP)
• Provisioning and configuration of routing in the cloud or on-premise, including BGP, VPCs, network peering
• Experience with Aeron

We Offer:

The Base Salary Range for this role is $200,000 - 250,000. This range is representative of the starting base salaries for this role at Clear Street. Where a candidate falls in this range will be based on job related factors such as relevant experience, skills, and location. This range represents Base Salary only, which is just one element of Clear Street's total compensation. The range stated does not include other factors of total compensation such as bonuses or equity.

At Clear Street, we offer competitive compensation packages, company equity, 401k matching, gender neutral parental leave, and full medical, dental and vision insurance. Our belief has always been that we are better as a business when we are all together in person. As such, we are requiring employees to be in the office 4 days per week. In-office benefits include lunch stipends, fully stocked kitchens, happy hours, a great location, and amazing views.

Our top priority is our people. We’re continuously investing in a culture that promotes collaboration. We help each other through challenges and celebrate each other's successes. We believe that modern workplaces succeed by virtue of having high-performance workforces that are diverse — in ideas, in cultures, and in experiences. We put in the effort to make such a workplace a daily reality and are proud to be an equal opportunity employer..  #LI-Hybrid