C++ Market Data Engineer

Citadel Securities

C++ Market Data Engineer

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2 Locations

In-Office

125K-350K Annually

Senior level

Information Technology • Software • Financial Services • Quantitative Trading

We embrace bold ideas and seize opportunities others don’t from the way we operate to the strategies we deploy.

The Role

The Market Data Engineer will design and implement high-performance market data systems focusing on trading infrastructure performance optimization and system resiliency.

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Job Description
About the Role
The Market Data team designs and operates the high-performance systems that power our production trading environment. In our business market data correctness determinism throughput and latency directly impact trading performance and P&L.
As strategy complexity grows across equities options futures and emerging asset classes - and as downstream consumers expand across trading and research - our platform must continuously evolve without compromising performance or stability.
We are seeking a self-driven Senior Market Data Engineer to take end-to-end ownership of core components of our market data stack. This is a high-impact role with direct influence on trading outcomes through the design and delivery of performance-critical infrastructure.
You will work closely with trading quantitative research and engineering teams to ensure our market data platform scales with business growth while maintaining the highest standards of resiliency precision and speed.
What You'll Do

Design implement and own high-performance market data systems including feed handlers order book construction distribution frameworks and research-facing tools and services.
Drive exchange protocol upgrades venue onboarding and behavioral changes while preserving strict determinism and latency guarantees.
Expand market and asset class coverage to support trading growth across equities futures options and adjacent products.
Continuously improve data quality completeness and internal consistency across the platform.
Optimize systems for throughput latency and resiliency under extreme production load.
Act as a strong production owner independently driving projects from design through deployment and long-term operational support.
Partner with trading and quantitative research teams to translate business requirements into robust performant technical solutions.
Contribute to architectural direction and raise engineering standards across the team.

What We're Looking For

Strong hands-on experience in modern C++ within performance-critical systems.
Deep understanding of large-scale real-time low-latency systems including multithreading memory management and networking.
Experience building or maintaining market data feed handlers order book systems or exchange connectivity infrastructure.
Strong debugging and problem-solving skills in complex real-time production environments.
Familiarity with exchange protocols (e.g. ITCH PITCH iMpact OUCH etc.).
Demonstrated ownership of systems operating in production environments.

Ability to balance performance correctness and maintainability in pragmatic engineering decisions.
In accordance with applicable law the base salary range for this role is $125000 to $350000.
In addition the employee who fills this role will be eligible to participate in a discretionary incentive compensation program as well as a wide array of benefit programs such as medical and life insurance retirement and tax-free savings plans and access to other healthcare programs.
About Citadel Securities
Citadel Securities is a technology-driven next-generation global market maker. We provide institutional and retail investors with world-class liquidity competitive pricing and seamless front-to-back execution in a broad array of financial products. Our teams of engineers traders and researchers harness leading-edge quantitative research and the accelerating power of compute machine learning and AI to power our analytics and tackle the market's and our clients' most critical challenges. Together we are forging the future of capital markets. For more information visit citadelsecurities.com .

Skills Required

Strong hands-on experience in modern C++ within performance-critical systems
Deep understanding of large-scale real-time low-latency systems including multithreading memory management and networking
Experience building or maintaining market data feed handlers order book systems or exchange connectivity infrastructure
Strong debugging and problem-solving skills in complex real-time production environments
Familiarity with exchange protocols (e.g. ITCH PITCH iMpact OUCH etc.)
Demonstrated ownership of systems operating in production environments

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The Company

HQ: Miami FL

1900 Employees

Year Founded: 2002

What We Do

Citadel Securities is a technology-driven next-generation global market maker. We provide institutional and retail investors with world-class liquidity competitive pricing and seamless front-to-back execution in a broad array of financial products. Our teams of engineers traders and researchers harness leading-edge quantitative research and the accelerating power of compute machine learning and AI to power our analytics and tackle the market’s and our clients’ most critical challenges. Together we are forging the future of capital markets.

Why Work With Us

We do not accept the status quo and we are constantly looking to achieve what others think is impossible. That’s true not just in our careers but also in our communities.