KDB Developer
VMC Soft Technologies, Inc · New York, NY · 4 wk ago
On-siteEngineeringContract
Key Responsibilities
- Develop, maintain, and support KDB+ applications and platform components.
- Design and optimize solutions for real-time and historical market data processing.
- Manage and support large-scale KDB environments handling petabyte-scale data and 500+ users.
- Integrate KDB+ with real-time messaging platforms such as Solace, Kafka, and ION.
- Implement DevOps, automation, monitoring, and platform reliability practices.
- Troubleshoot performance issues and ensure platform stability and scalability.
Required Skills
- KDB+ & q
- Strong experience in KDB+ development, administration, and production support.
- Deep Understanding Of q language, data structures, and datatypes
- Array-oriented programming
- KDB+ & q-SQL and KDB-specific joins (asof, window joins)
- KDB database architecture, storage, and query optimization
- Inter-process communication
- Ticker plant, RDB, HDB, Gateway, and chained process architectures
- Real-Time Data Platforms
- Experience integrating KDB+ with Solace, Kafka, or ION.
- Strong understanding of real-time market data processing and distribution.
- Capital Markets
- Strong Domain Knowledge Of Fixed Income, FX, Equities
- Experience with trading, market data, or risk analytics platforms.
- DevOps & Production Support
- CI/CD, deployment automation, and environment management.
- Experience with monitoring tools such as ITRS Geneos.
- Strong troubleshooting, performance tuning, and production support skills.
Preferred Experience
- Managing enterprise-scale KDB platforms with petabyte-scale datasets.
- Supporting global trading environments and mission-critical data platforms.
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