Senior KDB+/Q Low-Latency Real-Time Data Engineer

Madison-Davis, LLC; New York (NY); On-site; USD 92,000 - 132,000; Full time

Job summary

Madison-Davis, LLC seeks a Senior KDB Developer to design and implement low-latency platforms for real-time equities data in a large financial-services environment.

You will build streaming pipelines, RDB/HDB architectures, and scalable tickerplant solutions, collaborating with trading, quantitative, engineering, QA, and production teams.

Onsite in New York City three days per week.

Qualifications

• Experience with KDB+/Q in low-latency environments.
• Background in real-time data processing and streaming.
• Experience with financial services and large-scale datasets.
• Strong Linux/Unix skills and Python or Java.
• Understanding of time-series architecture and streaming data.
• Ability to collaborate with front-office and tech teams.

Responsibilities

• Design and develop low-latency KDB+/Q platforms for real-time financial data.
• Build and optimize streaming pipelines for market, ticker, order, and execution data.
• Develop scalable tickerplant, RDB, and HDB architectures.
• Create time-series models and high-performance query frameworks.
• Improve platform latency, throughput, reliability, and query performance.
• Develop APIs and reusable components for trading and analytics applications.
• Implement monitoring and automated data-quality controls.
• Investigate and resolve complex real-time data and production issues.

Skills

KDB+/Q

Real-time data processing

Time-series architecture

Collaboration with stakeholders

Low-latency development

Education

Tools

AWS

Java

Linux/Unix

Python

Unix

Cloud

Job description

Madison-Davis, LLC seeks a Senior KDB Developer to design and implement low-latency platforms for real-time equities data in a large financial-services environment.

You will build streaming pipelines, RDB/HDB architectures, and scalable tickerplant solutions, collaborating with trading, quantitative, engineering, QA, and production teams.

Onsite in New York City three days per week.