# Senior Software Engineer, Distributed Databases (Vitess/MySQL/MyRocks)

Description & Requirements Bloomberg runs on financial data. Across datasets spanning every asset class-from alternatives and reference data to corporate actions, filings, benchmarks, point-in-time histories, and derived analytics-every record must be correct, durable, globally available, and served with low latency. Our team builds Bloomberg’s distributed OLTP storage platform. We operate petabytes of critical financial data across more than 10,000 MySQL shards, using InnoDB and MyRocks as storage engines and Vitess for sharding and cluster management. We build custom read and write APIs that give Bloomberg engineers safe, predictable access to financial data without exposing the complexity-or operational risk-of sharding, replication, compaction, failover, and fleet management. This is a hands-on software engineering role at the boundary between distributed systems and database internals. You will build the software that operates and evolves this fleet, diagnose difficult production behavior at source-code depth, and contribute fixes and features upstream to Vitess and the MySQL/MyRocks/RocksDB ecosystem. We solve recurring operational problems in software. Where practical, we c

- **Id**: 605213
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/job/bloomberg-senior-software-engineer-distributed-databases-vitessmysqlmyrocks>
- **Role**: Backend
- **Role family**: Backend
- **Seniority**: senior
- **Work mode**: on_site
- **Hiring geo confidence**: structured
- **Locations**: London, United Kingdom
- **Countries**: GB
- **Hiring countries total**: 0
- **Visa sponsorship**: no
- **Relocation package**: no
- **Has equity**: no
- **Status**: live
- **First seen at**: 2026-09-10T17:55:02Z
- **Employer posted date**: 2026-09-10
- **Last verified at**: 2026-11-08T14:19:17Z
- **Board verified**: yes
- **Days open**: 59
- **Description format**: text
- **Description chars**: 4540
- **Description truncated**: no
- **Relocation offered**: no
- **Industries**: Financial Data & Market Intelligence, Financial News & Media

## Company

- **Id**: 7892
- **Name**: Bloomberg
- **Domain**: bloomberg.com
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/company/bloomberg>
- **Size band**: 5000+
- **Is staffing agency**: no
- **Employer type**: direct
- **Is intermediary**: no
- **Ats vendor**: Avature

### Truth index

- **Grade**: A
- **Score**: 100
- **Open postings**: 41
- **Ghost share**: 0
- **Stale share**: 0
- **Repost share**: 0.195
- **Time to fill p50 days**: 20
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-08T05:47:12Z

## Salary estimate

- **Min usd**: 103000
- **Max usd**: 199000
- **Period**: year
- **Method**: role_seniority_country_remote_cell
- **Sample n**: 139

## Technologies

- **C++** — Optional: no
- **MySQL** — Optional: no
- **Python** — Optional: no
- **RocksDB** — Optional: no
- **SQL** — Optional: no

## Trust

- **Level**: ok
- **Days open**: 59

## Requirements

- **Manages managers**: no
- **Security clearance**: no

### Education

- **Level**: bachelor
- **Optional**: yes

## Lifecycle

- Event: open; At: 2026-09-10T17:55:02Z

## Visa

- Country: US; Licensed sponsor: yes; Adverts offering sponsorship 24m: 0; Sanctioned now: no; Evidence: H-1B filings in 12 months: 434 · green card filings: 457; Filings 12m: 434
- Country: GB; Licensed sponsor: yes; Adverts offering sponsorship 24m: 0; Sanctioned now: no; Evidence: Licensed UK visa sponsor (Skilled Worker, Senior or Specialist Worker); Route: Skilled Worker; Global Business Mobility: Senior or Specialist Worker

## Liveness

- **Score**: 18
- **Band**: cold
- **Label**: Long shot
- **P open**: 1
- **P active**: 0.633
- **P room**: 0.28
- **Age days**: 58
- **Expected fill days**: 20
- **Reasons**: conf:3, velocity, win:tail, crowd:brand
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-08T05:47:12Z

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