KDB+ Lead Engineer — Real-Time Time-Series Platform

Millennium Management LLC; New York (NY); On-site; USD 175,000 - 250,000; Full time

Job summary

Millennium Management LLC seeks a KDB Development Lead to own architecture and roadmap for high-volume time-series data platforms built on kdb+ and q. You will lead and mentor engineers, drive performance, and partner across trading, research, and data teams to deliver durable solutions.

Applicants should have deep experience with real-time data ingestion, tickerplant-like architectures, and strong leadership capabilities.

Qualifications

• Significant experience with kdb+ and q in production systems.
• Leadership experience guiding engineers or teams.
• Strong communication with technical and non-technical stakeholders.

Responsibilities

• Lead, mentor, and develop a team of KDB/q engineers.
• Own architecture and roadmap for kdb+ platforms.
• Design scalable q solutions for real-time and historical data.
• Drive performance tuning and capacity planning.
• Establish engineering best practices and CI/CD pipelines.

Skills

KDB+/Q

Time-series data

Technical leadership

Production systems

Tools

Jupyter notebooks

CI/CD

Git

Python

Java

C++

Job description

Millennium Management LLC seeks a KDB Development Lead to own architecture and roadmap for high-volume time-series data platforms built on kdb+ and q. You will lead and mentor engineers, drive performance, and partner across trading, research, and data teams to deliver durable solutions.

Applicants should have deep experience with real-time data ingestion, tickerplant-like architectures, and strong leadership capabilities.