Sr. Software Engineer (C, C++, or Rust)

Partnerverse; Indiana (PA); On-site; USD 180,000 - 260,000; Full time

Job summary

Partnerverse in the United States is seeking a Senior Systems Engineer with 10+ years of experience in systems-level engineering (Rust/C/C++), including 5+ years of production Rust, to design and build high-performance, low-latency trading infrastructure.

Responsibilities include designing and maintaining backend services, collaborating with product, engineering, and DevOps teams, and ensuring production readiness with thorough testing and observability.

Qualifications

• 10+ years of professional systems programming experience in Rust, C, or C++ (5+ years production Rust).
• Hands-on experience with financial trading systems — exchanges, order books, matching engines, OMS/RMS, or market data systems.

Responsibilities

• Design, develop, and maintain high-performance backend services using Rust to build scalable distributed systems.
• Collaborate with product, engineering, and DevOps teams to deliver production-ready solutions.
• Participate in architecture discussions, code reviews, troubleshooting production issues, and improving system observability.

Skills

Rust

C++

C

Distributed systems

Low-latency

Tools

Aeron

Kafka

NATS

Job description

We are looking for a Senior Systems Engineer with 10+ years of experience in systems-level engineering (Rust/C/C++), including 5+ years of production Rust, to design and build high-performance, low-latency, fault-tolerant trading infrastructure. Prior hands-on experience with financial trading systems is mandatory.

Responsibilities

• Design, develop, and maintain high-performance backend services using Rust - Build scalable and reliable distributed systems capable of handling high request volumes - Optimize application performance, memory usage, and resource utilization - Design clean, maintainable, and well-tested software architecture
• Collaborate with product, engineering, and DevOps teams to deliver production-ready solutions
• Participate in architecture discussions, code reviews, and technical planning - Troubleshoot production issues and improve system reliability and observability - Write clean, well-documented, production-quality code following engineering best practices

Required Qualifications

• 10+ years of professional systems programming experience in Rust, C, or C++ (5+ years production Rust)
• Mandatory: hands-on experience with financial trading systems — exchanges, order books, matching engines, OMS/RMS, or market data systems (equities, F&O, FX, commodities, or crypto)
• Strong understanding of exchange mechanics — order types, price-time priority matching, spot trading, derivatives (futures/perpetuals), options, margining and liquidation concepts
• Strong experience building production-grade, low-latency, high-throughput backend applications
• Solid understanding of distributed systems and concurrent programming — Raft/consensus, replication, snapshots, deterministic state machines, exactly-once semantics
• Advanced concurrency: lock-free/wait-free structures, ring buffers, thread-per-core design, core pinning
• Strong understanding of networking concepts — TCP/IP, UDP, multicast, real-time communication, asynchronous networking
• Experience designing and implementing binary communication protocols for inter-service communication (SBE, Protocol Buffers, FlatBuffers, Cap'n Proto)
• Experience with microservices architecture and event-driven systems - Experience with messaging systems such as Aeron, Kafka, NATS, or similar high-performance platforms
• Strong understanding of in-memory data structures and efficient memory management — cache lines, memory ordering, NUMA, allocation-free design
• Experience working with relational databases and caching systems
• Experience working in Linux-based production environments
• Familiarity with containerization and modern deployment practices
• Strong debugging, profiling, and benchmarking skills (perf, flamegraphs, Criterion) - Excellent problem-solving and analytical abilities; ability to work independently and take ownership of technical deliverables

Preferred Technical Experience

• Tokio, Tonic (gRPC), Serde, Tracing, Criterion, Cargo/Clippy/Rustfmt - Aeron, LMAX Disruptor, Chronicle, or FIX engines
• Kernel-bypass networking concepts (io_uring, DPDK, AF_XDP); hardware timestamping
• Lock-free or wait-free programming techniques
• Options pricing / Greeks / volatility surface exposure

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience designing highly available and fault-tolerant systems (active-active, consensus-based failover)
• Deterministic simulation / property-based testing of stateful systems
• Exposure to cloud infrastructure and production monitoring tools
• Open-source contributions (openraft, TigerBeetle, tokio, etc.) or personal Rust systems projects

Selection Process

• 3 Rounds of Technical Interview
• 1 Round of Management Interview
• Shortlisting based on work evidence (repo/PR/design doc/write-up of a hard problem solved)
• Systems design deep-dive (order book / matching engine design), hands-on coding round, distributed systems round