Senior Software Engineer - London, United Kingdom - eFinancialCareers

eFinancialCareers

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London, United Kingdom

3 weeks ago

Posted by:

Tom O´Connor

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Description

Bloomberg runs on data. It's our business and our product. Our software solutions depend on robust data infrastructure to provide clients with this data. Our team is designing the next generation systems for handling this piece of crucial infrastructure.

Our ability to provide a DBaaS (Database as a Service) platform is critical to our clients ability to retrieve and analyze large quantities of data.

Ensuring our services scale, are robust, secure and reliable is where you come in.

We'll trust you to:

Engineer automated and selfservice solutions to database administrative tasks.
Extend monitoring solutions to reduce the cost of managing databases at scale.
Prioritize stability and performance among multiple priorities.
Promote database design best practices.
Improve operational processes and documentation.

You need to have:

Experience working with an objectoriented programming language (C/C++, Python, Java, etc.)
A Degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Mathematics, similar field of study or equivalent work experience
Excellent understanding of databases and database design patterns
Ability to debug and correct production problems
Experience in writing and troubleshooting SQL (stored procedures, functions, tables, views, indexes, etc.)
Ability to detect and solve Database performance issues related to issues such as CPU, memory, disk I/O and other resource contention

We'd love to see:

Knowledge of distributed database systems
Familiarity with Kubernetes and containers
Experience working with opensource software/community (upstream accepted contribution, or community presence) is preferred

To find out more about Engineering at Bloomberg, check out careers/technology/engineering/.
Bloomberg is an equal opportunity employer and we value diversity at our company.

We do not discriminate on the basis of age, ancestry, color, gender identity or expression, genetic predisposition or carrier status, marital status, national or ethnic origin,race, religion or belief, sex, sexual orientation, sexual and other reproductive health decisions, parental or caring status, physical or mental disability, pregnancy or maternity/parental leave, protected veteran status, status as a victim of domestic violence,or any other classification protected by applicable law.