Platform Performance Engineer - London- Leading Quant-Driven Market-Maker - Oxford Knight

Jobs via eFinancialCareers; London; On-site; GBP 120,000 - 200,000; Full time

Job summary

Join a leading quant-driven market-maker as a Platform Performance Engineer in London. This innovative firm values teamwork and merit, providing a collaborative environment where your contributions directly impact the PnL. You'll focus on enhancing the performance of cloud-based trading systems and drive cost efficiency in existing deployments. With a strong emphasis on professional growth, this role offers a significant compensation package and outstanding benefits. If you are passionate about performance engineering and thrive in a dynamic setting, this opportunity is perfect for you.

Benefits

Significant compensation package

Collaborative environment

Electric vehicle/cycle to work schemes

Annual health screening

Workplace nursery scheme

Beautiful offices in central London or Singapore

Qualifications

• Experience in performance work, especially in cloud environments.
• Familiarity with Linux tooling and network diagnostics.

Responsibilities

• Drive cost efficiency of existing trading deployments.
• Focus on performance of cloud-based hosts and global trading systems.

Skills

Performance Engineering

Cloud Computing

Linux Tooling

Network Diagnostics

TCP Protocol

WebSockets

HTTP Protocol

TLS Protocol

FIX Protocol

Infrastructure as Code

Terraform

Job description

Platform Performance Engineer - London- Leading Quant-Driven Market-Maker

Salary: up to £200k + bonus

Location: London

Summary

Not your standard algo trading firm, this leading market-maker takes pride in its flat hierarchy, teamwork, and rewarding people on merit and excellence. Specialists within electronic market-making in FX, equity, fixed income and commodity markets, they have one of the best names in the industry and attract the best talent.

They're now seeking a Platform Performance Engineer to join one of the trading application teams, initially to focus on the performance (both throughput and latency) of cloud-based hosts, but also to be responsible for the performance of a global, co-located trading system.

To begin with, you'll drive cost efficiency of existing trading deployments and look at on-prem work, e.g. hardware-specific instrumentation & co-ordination of A/B performance experiments. Future projects may cover adapting AWS-based deployment to new clouds (e.g. GCP) and integrating all AWS provisioning into the trading team's inventory management system over time.

Requirements

• Passionate about closely examining impact-oriented performance work, especially in cloud
• Familiarity with standard Linux tooling, particularly network diagnostics
• Deep knowledge (or keen to acquire deep knowledge) of protocols including TCP, WebSockets, HTTP, TLS, FIX
• Comfortable using a statically typed programming language
• Experience with infrastructure-as-code techniques and tools, such as Terraform

NB: Please do not apply if you are a fresh graduate.

Benefits

• Significant compensation package - you are making a direct impact on the PnL
• 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

Contact
If this sounds like you or you'd like to know more, please get in touch:

Andy Stirling-Martin
[e-mail]
020 3137 9579
linkedin.com/in/andrew-stirling-martin-7664a946