Bloomberg · 10 hours ago
Senior Software Engineer / SRE - Trade Automation & Execution
New York, NY
Full-time
Onsite
Senior Level
$160K/yr - $240K/yr
5+ years expBloomberg is a leading company in financial technology, and they are seeking a Senior Software Engineer / SRE for their Trade Automation & Execution group. The role involves ensuring the scalability and reliability of real-time trading systems, partnering with application and infrastructure engineers to manage technical risks and enhance system performance.
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Responsibilities
Identify, prioritize, and track scalability and reliability risks across large-scale trading platforms
Partner with application teams to diagnose and address performance and resilience challenges
Analyze system behavior under real and simulated load, including latency, throughput, failover, and blast radius
Design and run chaos engineering experiments and game-day exercises to validate system capacity and resilience
Build and maintain automation and tooling for early detection and mitigation of production risks
Communicate technical trade-offs, solutions, and roadmaps clearly to engineering stakeholders
Plan for traffic growth and peak market events with clear scaling strategies and guardrails
Qualification
Required
5+ years of professional experience with a high-level programming language such as Python, Java, or C++, preferably on Unix/Linux
Solid understanding of Unix/Linux fundamentals
Hands-on experience contributing to or triaging scaling and reliability issues in production distributed systems
Experience working with metrics, monitoring, or observability platforms, such as Grafana, Prometheus, or log analytics tools
Strong analytical skills and the ability to reason about complex system behavior and failure modes
Preferred
Familiarity with chaos engineering, fault injection, or load testing frameworks
A track record of writing blameless postmortems and leading game-day or incident review exercises
Curiosity and willingness to learn across all layers of the software and infrastructure stack
Benefits
Merit increases
Incentive compensation (exempt roles only)
Paid holidays
Paid time off
Medical
Dental
Vision
Short and long term disability benefits
401(k) +match
Life insurance
Various wellness programs
Company
Bloomberg
Bloomberg provides news, data, analytics, and communication services for the global business and financial world.
10001+ employees
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