# Software Engineer - Market Data
**Company:** [Clear Street](https://hotfix.jobs/companies/clear-street)
**Location:** New York, NY
**Salary:** $200K-$250K
**Experience:** 8+ years
**Skills:** C++, Rust, Go, Java, Python, gRPC, Postgres, Snowflake, Kafka, Kubernetes, Linux, TCP/IP, Udp, Ebpf, Dpdk
**Posted:** 2026-04-18
> Builds high-performance real-time data pipelines for financial market data across asset classes like equities, options, and futures. Requires 8+ years experience in low-latency systems, distributed systems, and financial data familiarity.
## Job Description
## 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.

## Requirements

- 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
- Communicate technical ideas with ease and always look to collaborate to deliver high quality products
- Team player, with experience working effectively with other engineers toward common goals

## Nice To Haves

- 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**

## Compensation

Base Salary Range: **$200,000 - 250,000**. Additional total compensation includes bonuses and equity. Benefits: company equity, 401k matching, gender neutral parental leave, full medical, dental and vision insurance.
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