Real-Time Quantitative C++ Engineer

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

Job summary

Millennium Management LLC is seeking a Quantitative Developer in New York to design, build, and operate high-performance C++ services for real-time pricing, risk, and P&L across fixed income and credit instruments.

You will own service reliability end-to-end, write thread-safe code for near real-time workloads, and optimize performance while integrating with Kafka, Protobuf, and internal APIs. A strong foundation in Linux and CI/CD is required.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in CS/SE or related field.
• Up to 5 years of C++ service/systems development with modern C++ (C++17/20).
• Strong multithreading and concurrency knowledge.
• Experience with long-running backend services.
• Familiarity with SOA, message queues (Kafka or similar), and serialization (Protobuf/FlatBuffers).
• Proficiency with Linux, debugging/profiling tools and CI/CD pipelines.
• Nice to have Docker/Kubernetes experience.

Responsibilities

• Design, build, and operate high-performance C++ services for real-time pricing, risk, and P&L.
• Own service reliability end-to-end: monitoring, incident response, root cause analysis.
• Write thread-safe, exception-safe C++ code for concurrent workloads with tight latency targets.
• Optimize performance: profile hotspots, memory allocations, cache behavior, throughput.
• Integrate C++ services with Kafka, Protobuf, and internal APIs.
• Contribute to CI/CD: automated tests, A/B deployment, blue/green releases.
• Promote engineering best practices and robust error handling in multi-threaded env.

Skills

C++

Multithreading

Linux

Kafka

Protobuf

Docker

Kubernetes

CI/CD

RAII

Education

Bachelor's degree in CS/SE or related field

Tools

FlatBuffers

GDB/LLDB

Profiling tools

Job description

Millennium Management LLC is seeking a Quantitative Developer in New York to design, build, and operate high-performance C++ services for real-time pricing, risk, and P&L across fixed income and credit instruments.

You will own service reliability end-to-end, write thread-safe code for near real-time workloads, and optimize performance while integrating with Kafka, Protobuf, and internal APIs. A strong foundation in Linux and CI/CD is required.