Clear Street · 4 months ago
Software Engineer - Market Data
New York, NY
Full-time
Onsite
Senior Level, Lead/Staff
$200K/yr - $250K/yr
8+ years expClear Street is a diversified financial services firm modernizing the brokerage ecosystem with a cloud-native clearing and custody system. The Software Engineer will build high-performance real-time data pipelines for processing financial market data, ensuring low latency and high throughput while collaborating with cross-functional teams.
Cloud InfrastructureFinancial ServicesFinTech
Responsibilities
Design, develop, and maintain real-time data pipelines to handle financial market data with low latency and high throughput in a resilient manner
Work with various asset classes such as equities, options, futures, and other financial instruments to ensure timely and accurate data processing
Collaborate with product, trading, and risk teams to understand requirements and deliver high-quality solutions that meet business needs
Develop efficient mechanisms for integrating market data feeds from exchanges and other sources into our systems
Troubleshoot and resolve performance issues, data discrepancies, and ensure data integrity across the pipeline
Continuously monitor the performance and health of data pipelines, identifying and mitigating potential issues before they impact system performance
Qualification
Required
You have at least 8+ years of professional experience implementing low-latency, high-throughput data pipelines
Solid understanding of distributed systems and the challenges involved in real-time data pipelines (e.g., data consistency, fault tolerance, scalability)
Familiarity with financial market data, including security prices, and asset classes like equities, options, futures, etc
Strong familiarity with Linux/BSD
Familiarity with TCP/IP and UDP (Unicast/Multicast) networking
You communicate technical ideas with ease and always look to collaborate to deliver high quality products
You are a team player, with experience working effectively with other engineers toward common goals
Preferred
Experience with system profiling with eBPF
Experience with columnar storage and database systems
Kernel bypass networking (DPDK or XDP)
Provisioning and configuration of routing in the cloud or on-premise, including BGP, VPCs, network peering
Experience with Aeron
Benefits
Company equity
401k matching
Gender neutral parental leave
Full medical, dental and vision insurance
Lunch stipends
Fully stocked kitchens
Happy hours
A great location
Amazing views
Company
Clear Street
Clear Street is a financial technology company that provides a modern, cloud-native platform for institutional investors and family offices.
501-1000 employees
H1B Sponsorship
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2025 (22)
2024 (13)
2023 (5)
2022 (16)
2021 (8)
2020 (5)
Funding
Current Stage
Late StageTotal Funding
$655MKey Investors
SBI GroupPrysm CapitalIMC Investments
2026-01-21Corporate Round· $50M
2023-04-11Series B· $270M
2023-02-14Series Unknown
Leadership Team
Ed Tilly
Chief Executive Officer
Chris Pento
Co-Founder and Board Member
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