Remote Senior C/C++/Rust Engineer | Low-Latency Data

Databento, Inc.; Town of Boston (NY); On-site; USD 120,000 - 160,000; Full time

Job summary

Databento, Inc. is seeking a midlevel or senior engineer to join their core team in Boston. You will design and develop high-performance server applications using C/C++ and Rust, handling millions of messages per second and optimizing for low latency.

The ideal candidate has at least 5 years of software engineering experience, preferably in trading or tech environments, and a strong understanding of systems programming. This role offers opportunities to work with petabyte-scale data and requires collaboration in a remote setting.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of full-time software engineering experience in a trading or tech environment.
• Strong proficiency in C/C++ or Rust is essential.
• Knowledge of algorithms, data structures, and performance engineering.

Responsibilities

• Design, develop, and maintain high-performance server applications.
• Optimize existing codebase for high throughput and low latency.
• Collaborate with the systems team to improve builds and deployments.

Skills

C/C++ proficiency

Rust proficiency

Systems programming

Multithreading

Networked I/O

Tools

lldb/gdb

Job description

Databento, Inc. is seeking a midlevel or senior engineer to join their core team in Boston. You will design and develop high-performance server applications using C/C++ and Rust, handling millions of messages per second and optimizing for low latency.

The ideal candidate has at least 5 years of software engineering experience, preferably in trading or tech environments, and a strong understanding of systems programming. This role offers opportunities to work with petabyte-scale data and requires collaboration in a remote setting.