Performance Engineer
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Job Description
IMC is looking for a highly skilled software engineer to join our Performance team in Chicago. Performance Engineers at IMC collaborate with other teams both technical and nontechnical to handle everything from optimizing exchange connectivity to analyzing application performance to designing systems for handling massive amounts of data. If its a hard problem its in scope.
Your Core Responsibilities:
- Analyze optimize troubleshoot and continuously tune the complete trading environment to improve the performance of our lowlatency trading systems on financial exchanges.
- Design develop test and deploy simple elegant reusable code.
- Work closely with traders and other technology teams to drive global thinking information sharing and sustainable longterm solutions.
- Build IMCs knowledge base to ensure a deep understanding of exchange infrastructure and protocols.
- Define the direction for critical investment decisions by analyzing complex technical problems in a selfdirected manner.
Your Skills and Experience:
- 5 years of experience in at least one of the areas: distributed systems computer networks operating system architecture ultralow latency environments.
- Knowledge of Linux kernel internals and interfaces including memory network and file I/O. Knowledge of eBPF is a plus.
- Knowledge of networking (TCP/IP UDP Multicast). Knowledge of kernel network bypass technologies is a plus.
- Proficiency in Python C and ObjectOriented Programming (OOP)
- A high degree of flexibility and adaptability: willing and able to deal with uncertainty and ambiguity in a rapidly evolving environment
- Strong troubleshooting and diagnostic skills; ability to solve problems creatively and proactively.
- Ability to communicate complex ideas to technical and nontechnical audiences.
- Ability to see opportunities and to make them happen without supervision; a true selfstarter.
The Base Salary range for the role is included below. Base salary is only one component of total compensation; all fulltime permanent positions are eligible for a discretionary bonus and benefits including paid leave and visit Benefits US IMC Trading for more comprehensive information.
About Us
IMC is a global trading firm powered by a cuttingedge research environment and a worldclass technology backbone. Since 1989 weve been a stabilizing force in financial markets providing essential liquidity upon which market participants depend. Across our offices in the US Europe Asia Pacific and India our talented quant researchers engineers traders and business operations professionals are united by our uniquely collaborative highperformance culture and our commitment to giving back. From entering dynamic new markets to embracing disruptive technologies and from developing an innovative research environment to diversifying our trading strategies we dare to continuously innovate and collaborate to succeed.
Employment Type
Full Time
