Staff Software Engineer Performance Systems
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Staff Software Engineer Performance & Systems Engineering
About the Company:
This fast-growing financial technology firm is transforming the infrastructure that powers today s capital markets. Founded in the late 2010s the organization has built a modern cloud-native platform from the ground up engineered to handle high volumes of trading activity with precision and reliability. Backed by experienced financial professionals and top-tier engineers the firm delivers robust clearing and custody systems and seamless integration with major exchanges and clearing houses.
The Team:
You ll be joining a specialized group focused on delivering high-performance trading capabilities across asset classes. The team is currently building a cutting-edge trading platform to support both institutional and active trading workflows integrating real-time data visualization multi-venue and highly configurable order handling.
The Role:
Were looking for a senior-level engineer to help build scalable low-latency systems that support mission-critical trading functions. You ll work closely with both technical and non-technical stakeholders to design performant systems drive feature development and shape architectural decisions.
What You ll Do:
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Build fault-tolerant high-throughput applications in a modern technology stack.
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Optimize real-time systems for CPU cache and I/O performance under production workloads.
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Own and enhance performance toolchains (flamegraphs benchmarking chaos testing).
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Lead efforts to fine-tune systems across cloud and on-prem environments.
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Mentor engineers in profiling and performance-tuning techniques.
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Contribute to systems-level architecture discussions and decisions.
What We re Looking For:
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5 years of experience developing latency-critical applications in Rust C or C.
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Expertise in asynchronous runtimes and multi-threading trade-offs.
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Deep experience with performance analysis and optimization at the system level.
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Strong understanding of Linux tuning (hugepages IRQ balancing CPU pinning).
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Comfort working in both cloud-native and hybrid environments.
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Familiarity with high-performance networking (TCP UDP multicast/unicast).
Bonus Points For:
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Prior production-level Rust experience.
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Kubernetes performance tuning expertise.
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Background in financial trading systems (EMS OMS or exchanges).
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Hands-on experience with DPDK RDMA iouring or eBPF.
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Experience with tuning databases and columnar data stores.
Tech Stack You ll Use:
Rust gRPC PostgreSQL Snowflake Kafka Aeron Kubernetes
What s Offered:
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A small capable team where your work has direct impact.
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A clean modern codebase with room to build and innovate.
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A DevOps-driven culture with strong CI/CD practices.
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Competitive compensation and a strong benefits package.
Employment Type
Full Time
