Senior Software Engineer - BQL Workload Management
New York, NY
Posted May 13, 2022 - Requisition No. 94908
Bloomberg runs on data. It's our business and our product. From the biggest banks to the most elite hedge funds, financial institutions need timely, accurate data to capture opportunities and evaluate risk in fast-moving markets. Enabling clients to access Bloomberg’s data and perform custom analytics, the Bloomberg Query Language (BQL) and Analytics platform is at the forefront of innovation for our business.
The BQL Enterprise & WLM team is responsible for maintaining the enterprise business requirements for BQL which includes tracking compute and data usage by our enterprise clients as well as creating a workload management system that acts as a gateway to all of BQL traffic. The WLM project is in its early stages of development and relies on technologies such as Kafka, distributed state in memory and heuristic cost modeling to accurately predict load and route traffic across the BQL ecosystem. We are looking for a strong engineer to join our WLM team and move the project forward.
We'll trust you to:
- Love working on complex problems at scale with Agile methodology
- Innovate and collaborate with the team on existing and new projects
- Write, test and maintain production-quality code
- Have strong communication skills
- Take ownership of your projects and drive them to the finish line
What you'll need to have:
- 3+ years of programming experience in Java (or equivalent OO language)
- Thorough understanding of OOP, data structures, algorithms, and distributed system
- Knowledge of network protocols such as http, load balancing, routing etc
- Experience with architecture designing and API designing
What we'd love to see:
- Experience with messaging technologies such as Kafka, BMQ
- Experience with distributed state technologies such as Redis, ZooKeeper etc
- Experience with metrics management systems like Grafana
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