Balyasny Asset Management L.P. · 1 month ago
Market Data Engineer - C++
New York, NY
Full-time
Onsite
Senior Level
6+ years expBalyasny Asset Management L.P. is seeking a highly motivated C++ Market Data Engineer to join their Market Data team. The role involves designing and building a central real-time market data distribution platform, ensuring it is reliable and scalable while collaborating with various teams to meet the needs of the business.
Financial Services
Responsibilities
Design, develop, and optimize a high-performance, low-latency market data distribution system supporting large-scale access across the firm
Build and maintain feed handlers for direct exchange connections (e.g., NYSE, NASDAQ, CME, Eurex) and vendor data sources (e.g., Refinitiv, Bloomberg B-Pipe)
Implement robust data validation, monitoring, and quality assurance processes
Develop and maintain APIs and data pipelines in Python to facilitate integration and analytics
Collaborate with infrastructure and DevOps to ensure performance, scalability, reliability, and security
Gather requirements, design solutions, and deliver production-ready systems in partnership with stakeholders and other engineering teams
Provide production support, troubleshooting, and timely resolution of issues
Contribute to architectural decisions and best practices for a central platform supporting large-scale usage
Qualification
Required
Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related field
6+ years of hands-on software engineering experience, focused on real-time market data systems and distributed architectures
Expert-level proficiency in modern C++ (C++14/17/20) with a track record of building high-performance, low-latency systems
Extensive experience developing feed handlers for both vendor (Refinitiv, Bloomberg, etc.) and direct exchange protocols (e.g., FIX/FAST, ITCH, OUCH)
Deep understanding of real-time data distribution models, network transport protocols (TCP, UDP, multicast), and messaging frameworks (e.g., Aeron, ZeroMQ, Kafka)
Experience building and supporting central platforms requiring access at scale from many users
Strong knowledge of market data types, symbol mapping/segmentation, and A/B arbitration
Expertise in memory management, threading/concurrency, CPU core affinity, and NUMA optimization
Proficiency in Python for APIs, data pipelines, and integration; Java experience is a plus
Strong verbal and written communication skills
Experience building centralized data platforms or services supporting large-scale internal usage
Ability to work independently and collaboratively in a fast-paced environment
Preferred
Experience with cloud-native architectures and containerization (e.g., Kubernetes, Docker)
Familiarity with data serialization formats (e.g., SBE, Protobuf, Avro, FlatBuffers)
Domain knowledge of Equities, FX, Futures, or Commodities is highly desirable
Experience with monitoring and observability for real-time systems (e.g., Prometheus, Grafana)
Company
Balyasny Asset Management L.P.
Balyasny Asset Management (BAM) is a diversified global investment firm founded in 2001 by Dmitry Balyasny, Scott Schroeder, and Taylor O'Malley.
1001-5000 employees
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