Oculon Intelligence is an AI-native, security first market intelligence platform built for the future of equities and options. We provide mission critical infrastructure required for enhanced compliance, execution analytics and real-time market surveillance.
We are seeking a Senior Software Engineer who thrives in complexity, values intellectual rigor over optics and possesses the grit to build a world-class platform from the ground up.
This is for the Engineer who wants to own a domain and deliver results that matter.
Required Experience
- Earned Progression: You have 5 to 15 years of experience demonstrating a clear trajectory of growth and increasing responsibility.
- Battle Tested: You have experience supporting high pressure production environments where downtime has significant consequences.
- Systems Reasoning: A proven ability to navigate and reason through massive system complexity with many moving parts at high speed.
- Autonomous: You are highly productive, even in ambiguous situations and/or environments. You problem solve quickly and get things done.
Required Technologies
- C++: You have expert proficiency with C++ (ideally C++ 20 or newer).
- Rust: Willingness to learn and/or build with Rust.
- OS Versatility: You have professional experience developing and debugging in Linux and Windows environments.
- Multi-threading
- SOA: Strong understanding of Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) and distributed systems.
Desired Technologies and Skills
- Low level systems: Knowledge of system bus, memory hierarchy and CPU architecture.
- Data and messaging: Experience with streaming or message bus systems such as Kafka, NATS, Redis or Valkey.
- Networking: Solid understanding of networking protocols (TCP/IP, UDP, etc).
- Tooling: Experience with performance and debug tooling (e.g. Valgrind, strace, perf, GDB).
- Cloud Infrastructure: General AWS knowledge (Load balancers, VPCs, networking "nuts and bolts").
- Modern Orchestration: Familiarity with containers and orchestration (Docker, ECS, containerd).
- Architecture Design: Deep knowledge of design patterns and scalable system architecture.
- Remote Debugging: SSH and remote Linux debugging capabilities.
Projects You Will Work On in Year One
- First Three Months
- You will help build, harden and launch our first core product for our first tier of enterprise customers.
- First Six Months
- You will help transition our initial product onto fully proprietary and high-performance infrastructure.
- First Year
- You will help architect and build our compute dense analytics infrastructure.
