Senior Software Engineer/SRE – Electronic Trading

Location

New York

Business Area

Engineering and CTO

Ref #

10047559

Description & Requirements 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 we support include the world’s largest over-the-counter electronic trading platforms, encompassing fixed income, currencies, commodities, derivatives, and equities. Global traders rely on these products daily, and regulators increasingly expect high availability to prevent market disruptions. The Engineering Practices team ensures our engineers deliver reliable, compliant software at high efficiency.

We are looking for a Senior Software Engineer who is passionate about improving operational resiliency and developer efficiency through intelligent automation. In this role, you will build systems, frameworks, and tools that make our platforms more reliable and our engineers more productive.

What You’ll Do

• 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

What You Bring

• 4+ years of experience in Python (or another OO languages)
• 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 our global systems are stable, efficient, and adaptive.

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

The referenced salary range is based on the Company's good faith belief at the time of posting. Actual compensation may vary based on factors such as geographic location, work experience, market conditions, education/training and skill level.

We offer one of the most comprehensive and generous benefits plans available and offer a range of total rewards 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, among others. The Company does not provide benefits directly to contingent workers/contractors and interns.

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