Morgan Stanley ยท 1 day ago
Director - Threat Detection Analyst
New York, NY
Full-time
Onsite
Senior Level, Lead/Staff
$90K/yr - $150K/yrMorgan Stanley is an industry leader in financial services, known for mobilizing capital to help governments, corporations, institutions, and individuals around the world achieve their financial goals. The role involves designing, implementing, and maintaining next-generation packaging and containerization infrastructure for C++ projects, while collaborating with development teams to enhance application performance and developer productivity.
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Responsibilities
Design, implement, and maintain next-generation packaging and containerization infrastructure for C++ projects, integrating with modern build systems and developer environments
Design and develop modern C++ libraries and a low-latency networking stack, collaborating with a global team to ensure scalability, reliability, and performance
Identify current technology gaps and propose solutions that improve developer productivity and application performance firmwide
Evaluate, experiment with, and recommend technologies that will form the basis of the firm's next-generation systems
Collaborate closely with internal clients and development teams to understand requirements, improve build and runtime performance, and streamline developer workflows
Maintain and support existing C++ libraries and infrastructure components, ensuring stability and quality
Promote best practices in your own work and across the wider firm C++ community
Qualification
Required
Experience developing on Linux, including hands-on work with build systems, packaging, and containerization (e.g., CMake, Conan/vcpkg, Bazel; Docker)
Proficiency in Python for tooling, automation, and integration tasks; experience with other scripting languages is a plus
Solid modern C++ skills (C++20/C++23), with experience building high-performance systems, ideally including networking, concurrency, memory management, and low-latency optimization
Experience with C/C++ toolchains, compilers, linkers, and static/dynamic analysis tools
Strong collaboration and communication skills
A curiosity-driven mindset, comfortable with experimentation, deep dives, and pragmatic engineering trade-offs
Preferred
Experience with network protocols, kernel-bypass/zero-copy techniques, async I/O, and latency-sensitive systems
Background in CI/CD systems (GitHub Actions, Jenkins) or development environment tooling
Familiarity with performance profiling, benchmarking, and diagnostics across both build pipelines and runtime systems
Exposure to financial markets or algorithmic trading environments is a plus, but not required
Benefits
Commission earnings
Incentive compensation
Discretionary bonuses
Other short and long-term incentive packages
Other Morgan Stanley sponsored benefit programs
Company
Morgan Stanley
Morgan Stanley is a financial services company that offers securities, asset management, and credit services.
Founded in 1935
10001+ employees
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Funding
Current Stage
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unknown1997-02-05IPO
Leadership Team
James Gorman
Chairman and CEO
Ted Pick
Chief Executive Officer (CEO)
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