Senior Software Engineer

OculonIntelligence is an AI-native, security first market intelligence platform built for the future of equities and options. We provide mission critical infrastructure required for enhanced compliance, execution analytics and real-time market surveillance.

We are seeking a Senior Software Engineer who thrives in complexity, values intellectual rigor over optics and possesses the grit to build a world-class platform from the ground up.

This is for the Engineer who wants to own a domain and deliver results that matter.

Required Experience

• : You have 5 to 15 years of experience demonstrating a clear trajectory of growth and increasing responsibility.
• Battle Tested : You have experience supporting high pressure production environments where downtime has significant consequences.
• Systems Reasoning : A proven ability to navigate and reason through massive system complexity with many moving parts at high speed.
• Autonomous : You are highly productive, even in ambiguous situations and/or environments. You problem solve quickly and get things done.

Required Technologies

• C++ : You have expert proficiency with C++ (ideally C++ 20 or newer).
• Rust : Willingness to learn and/or build with Rust.
• OS Versatility : You have professional experience developing and debugging in Linux and Windows environments.
• Multi-threading
• SOA : Strong understanding of Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) and distributed systems.

Desired Technologies and Skills

• Low level systems : Knowledge of system bus, memory hierarchy and CPU architecture.
• Data and messaging : Experience with streaming or message bus systems such as Kafka, NATS, Redis or Valkey.
• Networking : Solid understanding of networking protocols (TCP/IP, UDP, etc).
• Tooling : Experience with performance and debug tooling (e.g. Valgrind, strace, perf, GDB).
• Cloud Infrastructure : General AWS knowledge (Load balancers, VPCs, networking "nuts and bolts").
• Modern Orchestration : Familiarity with containers and orchestration (Docker, ECS, containerd).
• Architecture Design : Deep knowledge of design patterns and scalable system architecture.
• Remote Debugging : SSH and remote Linux debugging capabilities.

Projects You Will Work On in Year One

• First Three Months
  • You will help build, harden and launch our first core product for our first tier of enterprise customers.
• First Six Months
  • You will help transition our initial product onto fully proprietary and high-performance infrastructure.
• First Year
  • You will help architect and build our compute dense analytics infrastructure.