Senior Software Engineer – Market Data Platform, Ticker Plant Runtime Services

Overview

In this role you will help build and evolve Bloomberg’s real-time market data system, focusing on correctness, performance, and availability. You will work within the Ticker Plant team to design, implement, and operate scalable components that support high-volume financial events. You will engage across teams to ensure production readiness and instrument tooling for self-service and incident response. This is a mission-driven opportunity to influence the reliability and evolution of a core financial technology platform.

Responsibilities

• Write and debug production-grade code interfacing with system components
• Collaborate with component teams to design robust interfaces and workflows
• Develop dashboards and self-service tooling to monitor load and latency
• Contribute to production readiness and incident response capabilities
• Analyze system behavior to diagnose and prevent production issues
• Ensure features are maintainable in production with minimal operational load
• Shape system designs to improve fault tolerance and performance

Key requirements

• Experience with an object-oriented programming language (C/C++, Python, Java)
• Degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Mathematics, similar field or equivalent work experience
• Contributions to system design and architecture and scaling fault-tolerant distributed systems
• Honest, collaborative problem-solving approach

• Collaboration with peers and stakeholders
• Problem-solving mindset
• Engineering discipline and attention to performance
• C++
• Python
• Linux/Unix

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