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Is this posting real?
- This role has been open
- 13 days DRW 's roles stay open a median of 45 days
- Reposted
- No
- Salary listed
- No 34% of DRW 's roles list one
- Ghost-job risk at DRW
- high 132 stale, 0 reposted of 163 open
- Hiring momentum
- 195 roles opened in the last 90 days ↑ up vs. the prior 90 days
- Last confirmed on the employer's board
- 2026-09-17
Measured from postings appearing on and disappearing from DRW 's own greenhouse board since 2026-08-03. Full hiring picture for DRW .
About this role
As a Senior Software Engineer in Research Technology at DRW, you will design, build, and maintain high-performance software and data systems that support quantitative researchers and trading teams. Your work will involve implementing data pipelines in modern C++, orchestrating compute pipelines on HPC clusters, and creating research tooling that enhances data analysis capabilities. You will also mentor junior team members while focusing on optimizing code for performance and reliability.
- benefits
- 1/5
- freshness
- 4/5
- career value
- 4/5
- role clarity
- 5/5
- pay transparency
- 0/5
Scored from the posting itself — how clearly the role is described, how much it says about pay and benefits, and how recently it was listed. Not a judgement of DRW as an employer.
What you need
- 7+ years of professional experience building large-scale, high-performance systems
- Daily use of modern C++ (>=17) and Python
- Strong CS fundamentals: data structures, algorithms, networking, OS, concurrency, and system design
- Experience running compute at cluster scale: job scheduling, resource management, retries, and reliability
- Proven data-engineering experience: schema design, storage formats, compression, I/O trade-offs, and pipelines processing hundreds of terabytes
- Experience with columnar formats such as Parquet or Arrow, or comparable domain-specific formats
Nice to have
- Rust experience alongside C++ and Python
- Slurm or other cluster scheduler expertise
- Familiarity with ML/Deep Learning frameworks
- Prior finance or market-data experience, including low-level market connectivity
- GPU programming experience
Worth weighing
- No salary listed
- Trading experience is not required; comprehensive onboarding provided
- Candidates from Big Tech, Telco, Gaming, or Research-computing backgrounds are encouraged to apply
- Role involves significant individual contribution with some mentoring responsibilities
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Listed by DRW on their greenhouse job board, last confirmed open on 2026-09-17. PitchMeAI is not the employer.
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