Principal Backend Development Engineer (C++)

About the role

Bybit, a cryptocurrency exchange and digital financial platform founded in 2018, is hiring a Principal Backend Development Engineer in Dubai. The role focuses on building high-performance, low-latency trading systems for derivatives.

Key responsibilities

• Design and develop core derivatives trading systems covering order processing, position management and real-time account risk controls, supporting perpetual contracts, futures and options.
• Design high-performance data structures, concurrency models and event-processing mechanisms to ensure consistency and correctness across orders, trades, positions and account balances.
• Work with product, risk management and operations teams to turn trading rules and risk requirements into clear, verifiable implementations.
• Take part in architecture reviews, code reviews, performance testing and production troubleshooting to improve engineering quality and observability.

Required profile

• Fluency in English.
• At least 5 years of C++ development experience, with hands-on experience building high-performance, highly concurrent or low-latency systems.
• Experience designing complex stateful systems and handling event ordering, idempotency, state consistency and fault recovery.
• Preferred: experience building systems for exchanges, brokerages, futures trading, quantitative trading or financial infrastructure; familiarity with derivatives mechanics such as margin, leverage, funding rates and liquidation.

Required skills

• Modern C++ with a deep understanding of object lifetimes, memory management, templates and the STL.
• Multithreading, atomic operations, memory models and thread synchronization, including diagnosing concurrency issues.
• Linux systems programming and network programming (TCP/UDP, I/O multiplexing).
• Understanding of CPU caches, cache coherence, false sharing and NUMA, with use of tools such as perf.
• Preferred: lock-free data structures, CPU affinity, memory pools, zero-copy techniques or SIMD optimization.

What we offer

• Study Growth Fund to support professional development and continuous learning.
• Internal events, workshops and team-building activities.
• A diverse, international team and opportunities for internal mobility and career advancement.