Senior Software Engineer - Market Data Platform, Cluster Management

Bloomberg • New York, NY

69d • $160,000 - $240,000

About The Position

Bloomberg is the premier provider of real-time market data to the financial world. Market Data Engineering is at the core of both the Bloomberg Professional Service and Enterprise Solutions products that process market data from around the globe. Our systems process hundreds of billions of unique events a day, publishing these in real time while also servicing millions of client queries from our time-series database. As the Market Data Platform team, we are tasked with applying software engineering skills to solve the problems of owning large and always-growing market data systems while ensuring that we maintain resiliency, efficiency, availability and visibility at any scale. We work across the globe, with teams located in New York, London and Tokyo that comprise experts in various specialties like software engineering, platform performance, capacity planning, systems recovery, and automation. Our mission is to organize our environment and fleet to unlock unbounded Production scale. We establish structure to align with Engineering standards and foster meaningful contributions. Our team builds automation to support business continuity, test platforms and issue containment across environments. We value data gathering and evidence-based decision making. The team is deeply influenced by reliability principles because quality is key in our systems.

Requirements

• 4+ years experience working with an object-oriented programming language (Python, C/C++, Java)
• A Degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Mathematics, similar field of study or equivalent work experience
• Experience working in a Unix/Linux environment
• Experience with developing and using tools
• Knowledge of test frameworks (pytest, gtest, etc)
• Experience with analysis, diagnosing, and solving issues in a production environment
• Strong understanding of large-scale systems architecture
• Strong communication skills

Nice To Haves

• Exposure to Market Data Distribution architectures
• Proficiency building and navigating Virtualized & Containerized architectures
• Orchestration systems (Ansible, Salt, etc)
• Experience with rapid prototyping

Responsibilities

• Get hands-on experience working on large-scale market data systems
• Design and develop predictive data models for our system capacity
• Participate in Fleet governance and orchestration of lifecycle events
• Build systems capable of early detection of issues through metrics and signals, and develop automated correction and remediation strategies
• Help set standards and partner closely with other engineers to ensure that all products meet those standards
• Code - Build and maintain production-quality software, from debugging and instrumentation toolkits to dashboards for monitoring load and latency
• Design - Collaborate with component teams to design consistent interfaces, streamline workflows, and build applications for automation and self-service
• Analyze - Investigate system behavior, assessing the impact of changes before deployment and diagnosing unexpected issues in production

Benefits

• Medical, dental, vision insurance
• Short and long term disability benefits
• 401(k) + match
• Life insurance
• Various wellness programs
• Paid holidays
• Paid time off

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level
• Industry: Web Search Portals, Libraries, Archives, and Other Information Services
• Education Level: Bachelor's degree
• Number of Employees: 5,001-10,000 employees