KDB+ Support Engineer

Recutify Inc.
Newark, United States of America
2 days ago

Role details

Contract type
Permanent contract
Employment type
Full-time (> 32 hours)
Working hours
Regular working hours
Languages
English
Experience level
Intermediate
Compensation
$ 146K

Job location

Newark, United States of America

Tech stack

Artificial Intelligence
JIRA
Unix
Databases
Data as a Services
High-Frequency Trading
KDB+
Low Latency
Stream Processing

Job description

A KDB+ Support Engineer is required to join MAPS Electronic Trading Data Services team in New York. This role supports multiple KDB+ Applications, built on BoA's largest KDB+ implementation, servicing the Global Markets business across multiple asset classes.

KDB+ is a high-performance time-series database developed by KX Systems. It is designed to store, process, and analyze massive volumes of time-stamped data with extremely low latency. It is most widely used in:

  • Investment banks
  • Hedge funds
  • High-frequency trading firms
  • Market data providers

Requirements

Do you have experience in Real-time data processing implementation?, * The person hired for this role must have development or support experience on real-time KDB+ applications. . Any individual who cannot demonstrate 3 years development experience, must demonstrate completion of the Level 3 QDeveloper certification from KX (course). They should be sufficiently comfortable working in a Unix environment.

  • At least 3 years of experience in a developing/supporting KDB+ applications or provide demonstrate completion of Level 3 QDeveloper certification from KX Academy
  • Experience of the Q programming language
  • Familiarity with real-time KDB+ applications process terabytes of data daily
  • Excellent spoken and written communication to support users and collaborate with business and technology stakeholders
  • Self-starter who can hit the ground running, leveraging AI and the wider team to help guide them where necessary
  • Familiarity with ITIL approach to Incident, Problem, Change Management
  • Working with Jira as a work management tool

Apply for this position