Principal Software Engineer

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Overview Cboe’s Data Vantage division — the team behind the Silexx order and execution management platform — is looking for a Principal Software Engineer to lead the design and build-out of our back-end services and API infrastructure. This is a hands-on principal role for a seasoned back-end engineer who is an expert in C#/.NET and who thinks in terms of contracts, throughput, and reliability. You will architect and implement the services, APIs, and real-time data pipelines that power Silexx’s trading, analytics, and risk-management workflows, and you will define how our own clients and our customers’ systems integrate with the platform. The ideal candidate has spent years building low-latency, high-volume distributed systems, has a deep understanding of RESTful, gRPC, and streaming transport protocols, and treats API design, versioning, and backward compatibility as first-class engineering concerns. You will be comfortable working with AI coding assistants such as Claude across the software development lifecycle to accelerate delivery and raise quality.   Your responsibilities will be: Lead the design, architecture, and implementation of Silexx’s back-end services in C#/.NET — spanning order and execution workflows, market data, analytics, and risk. Own the API platform end to end: define REST, gRPC, and real-time streaming contracts, establish versioning and deprecation policy, and maintain backward compatibility for the internal teams and external clients that depend on them. Build and scale real-time data distribution — market data fan-out, order and execution event streams, and low-latency messaging — against explicit latency and throughput targets. Define the service topology: decompose large components into well-bounded microservices, set service boundaries, and establish standards for inter-service communication. Implement secure server communications and authentication/authorization using RESTful and streaming protocols, OpenID Connect, and OAuth 2.0. Drive observability, capacity planning, and performance profiling for systems that must remain available through market hours,