Principal Backend Development Engineer (C++)

Responsibilities

• Design and develop core derivatives trading systems covering order processing, position management and real-time account risk controls
• Design high-performance data structures, concurrency models and event-processing mechanisms for orders, trades, positions and balances
• Collaborate with product, risk and operations teams to translate trading and risk rules into verifiable implementations
• Take part in architecture reviews, code reviews, performance testing and production troubleshooting

Requirements

• At least 5 years of C++ development experience, including low-latency or highly concurrent systems
• Proficiency in modern C++, object lifetimes, memory management, templates and the STL
• Deep understanding of multithreading, atomic operations, memory models and thread synchronization
• Linux systems programming and network programming, including TCP/UDP and I/O multiplexing
• Understanding of CPU caches, cache coherence, false sharing, NUMA and profiling with perf
• Experience designing stateful systems covering event ordering, idempotency and fault recovery
• Fluency in English

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with exchanges, brokerages, futures trading, quantitative trading or financial infrastructure
• Familiarity with derivatives mechanics such as margin, leverage, mark prices, funding rates, liquidation and settlement
• Experience with lock-free data structures, memory pools, zero-copy techniques or SIMD optimization

Benefits

• Study Growth Fund for professional development
• Internal events, workshops and team-building activities
• Global collaboration with an international team
• Career advancement and internal mobility opportunities

About the Company

• Bybit is one of the world's leading cryptocurrency exchanges, serving over 80 million users across more than 200 countries and regions.