Real-Time Software Engineer: Low-Latency Market Data

LSEG; Greater London; On-site; GBP 60,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

London Stock Exchange Group (LSEG) is seeking a Software Engineer for its Real-Time Engineering team. You will build APIs, telemetry pipelines and monitoring services for a global low-latency market data platform, working with experienced engineers to deliver production software and observability across a distributed system.

You’ll contribute to software that aggregates data from hundreds of exchanges to thousands of customers, leveraging cloud-native techniques, OpenTelemetry, and modern

Qualifications

• Hands-on software engineering experience.
• Proficiency in Go, modern C++, or Rust.
• Understanding of APIs, Git and modern development practices.
• Interest in market data, observability, distributed systems and cloud-native tech.

Responsibilities

• Build APIs, telemetry pipelines and synthetic monitoring services for a low-latency market data platform.
• Develop software and data stack to deliver data from global exchanges to customers.
• Contribute to telemetry pipelines ingesting metrics, logs and traces.
• Use Git, CI/CD and configuration-as-code to deploy software across environments.
• Collaborate with engineering squads to improve instrumentation in applications.

Skills

Go

Modern C++

Rust

APIs

Git

CI/CD

Observability

Distributed systems

Tools

Kubernetes

OpenTelemetry

Cloud platforms

Job description

London Stock Exchange Group (LSEG) is seeking a Software Engineer for its Real-Time Engineering team. You will build APIs, telemetry pipelines and monitoring services for a global low-latency market data platform, working with experienced engineers to deliver production software and observability across a distributed system.

You’ll contribute to software that aggregates data from hundreds of exchanges to thousands of customers, leveraging cloud-native techniques, OpenTelemetry, and modern