Senior Software Engineer/SRE – Electronic Trading

USD 160,000-240,000 per year
SENIOR
✅ On-site

Used Tools & Technologies

Not specified

Required Skills & Competences

Grafana @ 4 Kafka @ 4 Linux @ 4 Prometheus @ 4 Python @ 6 Distributed Systems @ 4 Communication @ 7 .NET @ 4 OpenTelemetry @ 4 Observability @ 4 AI @ 4

Details

Reliability Engineers in Electronic Trading (ET) at Bloomberg fill the mission-critical role of ensuring our enterprise products are resilient, observable, and ready for the future. The products supported include large over-the-counter electronic trading platforms across fixed income, currencies, commodities, derivatives, and equities. The Engineering Practices team ensures engineers deliver reliable, compliant software at high efficiency.

Responsibilities

  • Build automation and frameworks that improve resiliency, observability, and recovery
  • Partner with teams to review system health, mitigate reliability risks, and enhance performance
  • Automate operational tasks to boost scalability and safety
  • Promote best practices in reliability, alerting, and incident response

Requirements

  • 4+ years of experience in Python (or another object-oriented language)
  • Strong collaboration and communication skills
  • Solid understanding of distributed systems and system reliability
  • Experience with Linux, databases, web services, and storage
  • Interest in AI-driven operations
  • Degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or equivalent experience

Nice to Have

  • Prior Reliability Engineering experience or open-source contributions
  • Familiarity with modern container/orchestration technologies
  • Experience with Kafka, Prometheus, Grafana, OpenTelemetry and automation tools
  • Experience in anomaly detection and predictive alerting

Why It Matters

You’ll shape the future of operational resiliency through automation and AI, ensuring Bloomberg's global systems are stable, efficient, and adaptive.

Compensation and benefits

Salary Range = 160000 - 240000 USD Annually + Benefits + Bonus

The posting notes a comprehensive benefits plan that may include merit increases, incentive compensation (exempt roles only), paid holidays, paid time off, medical, dental, vision, short and long term disability benefits, 401(k) + match, life insurance, and various wellness programs. The Company does not provide benefits directly to contingent workers/contractors and interns.

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