Platform Performance Specialist

1 month ago


London, Greater London, United Kingdom Oxford Knight Full time
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Are you a skilled engineer looking to make a real impact on the performance of our trading applications? We're seeking a talented Platform Performance Engineer to join our team and drive cost efficiency, improve throughput, and reduce latency in our cloud-based hosts and global, co-located trading system.

About the Role

We're a leading market-maker that takes pride in our flat hierarchy, teamwork, and merit-based rewards. Our team of specialists in electronic market-making in FX, equity, fixed income, and commodity markets is one of the best in the industry, and we're looking for someone to join us in our mission to deliver exceptional performance.

Key Responsibilities
  • Drive cost efficiency of existing trading deployments and explore on-prem work, including hardware-specific instrumentation and A/B performance experiments.
  • Adapt AWS-based deployment to new clouds (e.g. GCP) and integrate all AWS provisioning into our trading team's inventory management system.
  • Collaborate with our trading application teams to identify and address performance bottlenecks.
Requirements
  • Passionate about performance optimization, especially in cloud environments.
  • Familiarity with standard Linux tooling, particularly network diagnostics.
  • Deep knowledge of protocols, including TCP, WebSockets, HTTP, TLS, and FIX.
  • Comfortable using a statically typed programming language.
  • Experience with infrastructure-as-code techniques and tools, such as Terraform.
What We Offer
  • A significant compensation package that reflects your impact on our PnL.
  • A collaborative and friendly environment where everyone is valued and treated as an individual.
  • Outstanding benefits, including electric vehicle/cycle to work schemes, annual health screening, and workplace nursery scheme.
  • Cutting-edge, beautiful offices in central London or Singapore.
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