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Senior Software Engineer — Distributed Data and Retrieval Platform

Bloomberg

Location

Princeton, NJ

Type

Full-time

Posted

5/12/2026

Compensation

$160,000 - $240,000 per year

Undergraduate with 5+ Years of Experience
Approval 99%·Filings 720·New hires 216·
Established Sponsor
·FY 2025

Job description

The Senior Software Engineer role focuses on building and maintaining Bloomberg's distributed OLTP storage layer for critical financial data systems. The team is responsible for ensuring data correctness, performance, and availability at a global scale. Engineers will work closely with technologies like Vitess, MySQL, and RocksDB to create deterministic APIs for safe data access. The position emphasizes production behavior, observability, and the ability to influence the architecture of Bloomberg's financial data platform.

Requirements

  • 4+ years of professional software engineering experience.
  • Strong programming skills in one or more of Java, Go, C, or C++.
  • Deep experience or strong interest in database internals, distributed systems, storage engines, or large-scale data infrastructure.
  • Strong debugging skills across application code, infrastructure, networking, and Linux.
  • A degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Mathematics, or equivalent practical experience.

Responsibilities

  • Build OLTP store services supporting billions of mutations and transactions across thousands of shards.
  • Design deterministic, low-latency access patterns instead of relying on arbitrary SQL execution.
  • Diagnose and improve performance across the stack including application code, JVM, Linux, networking, MySQL, MyRocks, RocksDB, and Vitess.
  • Build observability for fast production debugging using structured events, traces, and telemetry.
  • Contribute improvements back to upstream open-source systems when Bloomberg's requirements push beyond existing capabilities.

Benefits

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

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