Was hoping the hn community (which i've grown with over my decade+ career) would provide some original insight - I've been a backend/jvm/low latency engineer for a long time. I specialize in indexing the web and providing it to downstream processes in warc format. My current role involves upleveling junior engineers as the system is pretty mature at this point and I probably won't be promoted staying here. I could see myself building crawlers for a while but I'm not seeing any startups that need this skill. Where would you recommend I look for the next interesting project involving low latency jvm languages (like yc's backed questdb)
Financial companies need to consume large amounts of data from external sources. In some cases there is a low-latency requirement. In all cases there is a reliably requirement.<p>Pay at certain firms in this industry can meet or exceed FAANG
Maybe try companies which do systems programming in Java, such as companies behind Elasticsearch, Apache Spark, Apache Cassandra etc. They're not doing low-latency work per se, but performance is definitely important for them.