Clear Street

Software Engineer - Market Data

New York, NY

Sponsorship not specified$200k-$250kDetected 95 days ago

PythonJavaGoRustC++Distributed SystemsData StructuresPostgreSQLSnowflakeKubernetesLinuxgRPCKafkaData EngineeringTCP/IPBGP/OSPF

About the role

Knowledge or direct experience working with market data feed handlers from exchanges is a significant advantage.

Design, develop, and maintain real-time data pipelines to handle financial market data with low latency and high throughput in a resilient manner.
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.
You will play a key role in designing, developing, and optimizing data pipelines that handle large volumes of data with low latency and high throughput, ensuring that our systems can process and deliver market data in real time.
As a Software Engineer in the FACT team, you will work closely with high-impact teams to design and implement cutting-edge solutions that support our trading, analytics, and financial data products.
You will play a key role in the design and implementation of key components that support Clear Street's continued expansion into global markets.

You have at least 8+ years of professional experience implementing low-latency, high-throughput data pipelines
Familiarity with financial market data, including security prices, and asset classes like equities, options, futures, etc...
Familiarity with TCP/IP and UDP (Unicast/Multicast) networking
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
Experience with Aeron

The Base Salary Range for this role is $200,000 - 250,000.
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.
Continuously monitor the performance and health of data pipelines, identifying and mitigating potential issues before they impact system performance.
In-office benefits include lunch stipends, fully stocked kitchens, happy hours, a great location, and amazing views.

The FACT team is responsible for several key data products which enable Clear Street's systems and personnel to operate with confidence and speed.
These products include security and pricing master, corporate actions, and streaming market data as well as a number of other key reference datasets.
The FACT team takes on the task of collecting inputs from various sources including vendors, public sources, and internal teams and organizing them into cohesive data products which serve as the authoritative source of reference data within the firm.
FACT Team Stack: C++, Rust, Go, Java, Python, gRPC, PostgreSQL, Snowflake, Kafka, Kubernetes
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.

This listing is sourced directly from Clear Street's careers page and normalized into a canonical job model.