Senior Software Engineer

TXSE • Dallas, TX

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About The Position

Oculon Intelligence is an AI-native, security first market intelligence platform built for the future of equities and options. We provide mission critical infrastructure required for enhanced compliance, execution analytics and real-time market surveillance.
We are seeking a Senior Software Engineer who thrives in complexity, values intellectual rigor over optics and possesses the grit to build a world-class platform from the ground up.
This is for the Engineer who wants to own a domain and deliver results that matter.

Requirements

• Earned Progression: You have 5 to 15 years of experience demonstrating a clear trajectory of growth and increasing responsibility.
• Battle Tested: You have experience supporting high pressure production environments where downtime has significant consequences.
• Systems Reasoning: A proven ability to navigate and reason through massive system complexity with many moving parts at high speed.
• Autonomous: You are highly productive, even in ambiguous situations and/or environments. You problem solve quickly and get things done.
• C++: You have expert proficiency with C++ (ideally C++ 20 or newer).
• Rust: Willingness to learn and/or build with Rust.
• OS Versatility: You have professional experience developing and debugging in Linux and Windows environments.
• Multi-threading
• SOA: Strong understanding of Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) and distributed systems.

Nice To Haves

• Low level systems: Knowledge of system bus, memory hierarchy and CPU architecture.
• Data and messaging: Experience with streaming or message bus systems such as Kafka, NATS, Redis or Valkey.
• Networking: Solid understanding of networking protocols (TCP/IP, UDP, etc).
• Tooling: Experience with performance and debug tooling (e.g. Valgrind, strace, perf, GDB).
• Cloud Infrastructure: General AWS knowledge (Load balancers, VPCs, networking "nuts and bolts").
• Modern Orchestration: Familiarity with containers and orchestration (Docker, ECS, containerd).
• Architecture Design: Deep knowledge of design patterns and scalable system architecture.
• Remote Debugging: SSH and remote Linux debugging capabilities.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior
• Education Level: No Education Listed