Susquehanna hired another C++ legend after Bjarne Stroustrup

Where can you find the most exciting C++ jobs? Recent hires at Susquehanna are helping the electronic trading firm make a strong case for itself. Last month, it hired Bjarne Stroustrup, the language's creator. Now it has hired a long-serving principal engineer at Microsoft who is also well respected in the C++ community.

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Gabriel Dos Reis joined Susquehanna as a technical fellow, the same role held by Stroustrup. Susquehanna says he "will collaborate with teams across the organization on modern C++ practices, architecture and the continued evolution of the systems that support Susquehanna’s business."

At Microsoft, Dos Reis was an architect for Visual Studio, Microsoft's integrated development environment. He's also a PhD mathematician from the Grande Écoles, having studied at Ecole Normale Supérieure.

Dos Reis has spent just shy of three decades on the C++ standards committee and made some significant contributions to the language. Herb Sutter, a technical fellow at Citadel Securities and former head of the standards committee, said his work with Stroustrup on the constexpr function is the most significant change to C++ of the past 15 years.

When announcing his arrival at Susquehanna, Stroustrup said that financial services "places extraordinary demands on performance, reliability, and maintainability, making it one of the most interesting applications of modern software engineering." Susquehanna says C++ powers "many of the systems and tools used across trading, research and risk management."

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