Principal Backend Development Engineer(C++)

bybit· Derivatives Business Unit (DBU)
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📍 Abu Dhabi, UAE

About this role

About Us

Established in 2018, Bybit is one of the world’s leading cryptocurrency exchanges and digital financial platforms, serving over 80 million users across more than 200 countries and regions. Powered by world-class technology and a user-first mindset, Bybit delivers a seamless ecosystem across trading, payments, wealth management, custody, institutional services, and Web3 — connecting users to the future of digital finance.
 
Our core values define how we build. We listen, care and improve to create products and experiences that put users first. Backed by a global team of ambitious builders, problem-solvers, and innovators, we foster a high-performance and fast-moving environment where talent is empowered to drive real impact at the global scale. Supported by 24/7 multilingual customer service and a strong commitment to innovation, we are shaping the future of finance through technology, collaboration, and bold execution.
 
Today, Bybit is recognized as one of the most trusted and transparent platforms in the digital asset industry, continuing to expand its global presence while building the infrastructure for the next generation of financial services.
Key Responsibilities
  1. Develop and maintain trading tool modules, including trading strategies and trading bots.
  2. Design highly scalable and reliable trading tool engines.
  3. Participate in technical design reviews and code reviews.
  4. Build system observability infrastructure, including monitoring, alerting, distributed tracing, and logging.
  5. Participate in production incident investigations and post-mortem reviews.
  6. Take ownership of code quality and reliability for services running in production, ensuring stability, performance, and minimal downtime (24x7 environment).
 
Requirements
  1. 3+ years of Go development experience, with a deep understanding of Go's concurrency model, memory model, and garbage collection (GC) mechanisms.
  2. Experience designing high-concurrency, low-latency systems, with familiarity with common performance bottlenecks and optimization techniques.
  3. Familiarity with messaging middlewares such as Aeron, Kafka and Redis Streams, and their applications in streaming data architectures.
  4. Strong engineering discipline, with an emphasis on clean, maintainable code, thorough code reviews, and a strong sense of accountability for production systems.
  5. Advanced English proficiency (written and verbal).
 
Nice to Have
  • Experience with C++ and/or Java in low-latency environments.
  • Familiarity with FIX protocol and SBE (Simple Binary Encoding).
 

Why Join Us
At Bybit, we are committed to fostering a supportive and enriching work environment. 
Our benefits include:
- Study Growth Fund: We support your professional development and continuous learning.
- Internal Events: Participate in regular team-building activities, workshops, and events designed to promote collaboration and innovation.
- Global Collaboration: Be part of a diverse, international team, working alongside colleagues from around the world.
- Career Advancement: Access opportunities for growth and advancement within a rapidly expanding global company.
- Internal Mobility: Grow with us- Your long-term development is important to us. We offer internal job opportunities to help build your career path.

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This Principal Backend Development Engineer(C++) position is part of the Derivatives Business Unit (DBU) department at bybit. See the full job description for more information about the team structure and responsibilities.
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This Principal Backend Development Engineer(C++) position at bybit was posted on Oct 2, 2026. Apply as soon as possible — early applications are often reviewed first.
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