Senior Software Engineer at Txse

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.