Performance Engineer - Digital Assets
Performance Engineer - Digital Assets
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Performance Engineer Digital Assets
As a Performance Engineer on IMCs crypto team you will work on optimizing the latency throughput and reliability of trading systems and infrastructure. You will work closely with developers and traders to identify and eliminate bottlenecks improve real-time performance and ensure our systems remain competitive and resilient across volatile markets.
Your Core Responsibilities
- Analyse the performance characteristics of trading systems including networking storage and compute layers
- Develop tools to profile benchmark and monitor low-latency applications and data pipelines
- Identify and address system inefficiencies and architectural bottlenecks
- Collaborate with engineers to improve code paths system design and runtime configurations
- Guide optimization strategies for on-chain and off-chain components in crypto trading systems
- Exchange microstructure analysis
Your Skills and Experience
Required:
- Strong academic and vocational background in systems engineering computer architecture and low-latency system design
- Proficiency in performance profiling tools
- Deep knowledge of Linux systems networking stacks and hardware optimization
- Excellent problem-solving and debugging skills
- Experience with high-frequency or crypto trading systems
- Familiarity with containerization and real-time monitoring tools like Grafana
- Strong programming skills in C
Nice to have:
- Understanding of blockchain node performance and DeFi protocol latency
- Strong programming skills in Rust and scripting skills in Python
Location and Office Culture
- IMC office in Zug Switzerland
- Note that this is an onsite role with some but limited flexibility for working from home
- You can expect a dynamic fast-paced environment that delivers a steady stream of challenges and opportunities
- One of the most exciting aspects of the job is our quick feedback loop in the research development and deployment of strategies
- We give people lots of responsibility and the support they need to make an impact from day one
About Us
IMC is a global trading firm powered by a cutting-edge research environment and a world-class 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 high-performance 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
