The Senior Software Engineer / SRE role in the Trade Automation & Execution group focuses on ensuring the scalability and reliability of real-time trading systems at Bloomberg. The TRAX Reliability team collaborates with application and infrastructure engineers to proactively manage technical risks and improve system performance. This position involves analyzing system behavior under load and designing tools for early detection of production risks. The engineer will have a direct impact on the stability of execution platforms used by leading financial institutions worldwide.

• 5+ years of professional experience with a high-level programming language such as Python, Java, or C++, preferably on Unix/Linux.
• Solid understanding of Unix/Linux fundamentals.
• Hands-on experience contributing to or triaging scaling and reliability issues in production distributed systems.
• Experience working with metrics, monitoring, or observability platforms, such as Grafana, Prometheus, or log analytics tools.
• Strong analytical skills and the ability to reason about complex system behavior and failure modes.

• Identify, prioritize, and track scalability and reliability risks across large-scale trading platforms.
• Partner with application teams to diagnose and address performance and resilience challenges.
• Analyze system behavior under real and simulated load, including latency, throughput, failover, and blast radius.
• Design and run chaos engineering experiments and game-day exercises to validate system capacity and resilience.
• Build and maintain automation and tooling for early detection and mitigation of production risks.
• Communicate technical trade-offs, solutions, and roadmaps clearly to engineering stakeholders.
• Plan for traffic growth and peak market events with clear scaling strategies and guardrails.

• Bloomberg offers a comprehensive suite of benefits designed to support health, financial stability, and work-life balance.