Real-Time Software Engineer: Low-Latency Data Systems

LSEG; Nottingham; On-site; GBP 65,000 - 90,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Healthcare

Retirement planning

Paid volunteering days

Wellbeing initiatives

Job summary

LSEG is seeking a Software Engineer for its Real-Time Engineering team to work on a global low-latency market data platform. You will build APIs, telemetry pipelines and synthetic monitoring services to show how reliably market data reaches customers.

You will collaborate with experienced engineers to develop production software, measure performance and enable observability across a globally distributed system.

Qualifications

• Hands-on software engineering experience, gained through employment, a graduate role, or open-source contribution.
• Ability to write and explain software in performance-oriented languages such as Go, modern C++ or Rust.
• A good understanding of core software engineering concepts and an interest in building reliable, maintainable applications.
• Familiarity with APIs, Git and modern software development practices.
• An interest in market data, observability, distributed systems, telemetry, data pipelines or cloud-native tech.
• Demonstrated analytical and problem-solving ability in complex engineering or academic domain.
• Willingness to learn unfamiliar technologies and develop knowledge of complex systems.
• Good communication and collaboration skills across teams.
• 3-6 years of experience

Responsibilities

• Build and improve software components that aggregate, correlate and present data from over 30 global distribution sites.
• Develop applications and data-processing logic that identify performance issues, service degradation and hotspots across distributed systems.
• Contribute to telemetry pipelines that ingest, transform and route metrics, logs and traces into a common observability layer.
• Deliver synthetic monitoring capabilities that measure the performance and experience of Real-Time services globally.
• Develop APIs, automation and configuration used to manage observability services and capabilities.
• Use Git, CI/CD and configuration-as-code practices to deploy and maintain software and observability assets.
• Work with engineering squads to add instrumentation across Development, Test, PPE and Production environments.
• Learn modern observability, distributed systems, cloud-native software and real-time data platforms.
• Contribute ideas to evolve the Real-Time observability platform.

Skills

Go

C++

Rust

APIs

Distributed systems

Observability

Tools

Kubernetes

Git

CI/CD

Job description

LSEG is seeking a Software Engineer for its Real-Time Engineering team to work on a global low-latency market data platform. You will build APIs, telemetry pipelines and synthetic monitoring services to show how reliably market data reaches customers.

You will collaborate with experienced engineers to develop production software, measure performance and enable observability across a globally distributed system.