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.  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.