Lead Go Backend Engineer: Real-Time Market Data

Bybit Limited; Kuala Lumpur; On-site; MYR 120,000 - 240,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Study Growth Fund

Internal Events

Global Collaboration

Career Advancement

Internal Mobility

Job summary

Bybit, a leading cryptocurrency exchange, is hiring for a Go backend engineer in Kuala Lumpur to develop core market data modules and real-time pipelines. You will optimize low-latency data workflows, participate in design and code reviews, and help ensure system reliability and observability.

You will work in a fast-paced team focused on high-performance data processing, with exposure to modern streaming tech (Kafka/Redis Streams) and real-time protocols (WebSocket, gRPC).

Qualifications

• 3+ years of Go development experience.
• Strong understanding of Go concurrency, memory model, and GC mechanics.
• Experience designing high-concurrency, low-latency systems.
• Familiar with Kafka/Redis Streams in data streaming.
• Proficient with real-time data transport protocols WebSocket and gRPC.
• Strong engineering discipline — clean code structure and code reviews.

Responsibilities

• Develop and maintain core market data modules.
• Design and optimize real-time market data computation and low-latency push pipelines.
• Tune system performance under high-concurrency, high-throughput scenarios to ensure accuracy and timeliness of market data.
• Participate in technical design reviews and code reviews.
• Build system observability infrastructure, including monitoring & alerting, distributed tracing, and logging systems.
• Participate in production incident investigation and post-mortem reviews.

Skills

Go development

Concurrency model

Low-latency systems

Data streaming

WebSocket/gRPC

Code reviews

Observability basics

Tools

Kafka

Redis Streams

WebSocket

gRPC

Job description

Bybit, a leading cryptocurrency exchange, is hiring for a Go backend engineer in Kuala Lumpur to develop core market data modules and real-time pipelines. You will optimize low-latency data workflows, participate in design and code reviews, and help ensure system reliability and observability.

You will work in a fast-paced team focused on high-performance data processing, with exposure to modern streaming tech (Kafka/Redis Streams) and real-time protocols (WebSocket, gRPC).