Senior Software Engineer

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. 

• 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. 

• 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.

• 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. 

• 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.