Systems Developer - High-Performance Compute & Networking

Referment; Greater London; On-site; GBP 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

Referment is partnering with a global investment and technology organisation to hire a Systems Developer for high-performance research and trading infrastructure. This hands-on role covers large-scale compute, OS, tooling, networking and storage, with breadth across workload scheduling, fleet management, and platform reliability.

You will design, implement and tune systems engineering solutions, build monitoring tools, and collaborate with an international team supporting critical workloads.

Qualifications

• Experience in infrastructure orchestration and fleet management.
• Advanced Python for systems engineering, including high-concurrency frameworks.
• Degree in Physics, Mathematics, Computer Science, or related field, or up to five years’ practical experience.
• Curiosity about how complex technology works and the motivation to investigate unfamiliar problems.
• Clear written and verbal communication, organisation and time-management skills.

Responsibilities

• Design and improve workload scheduling and fleet-management capabilities.
• Contribute to clustered file-system design, tooling and platform reliability.
• Investigate and tune kernel and network performance for latency-sensitive and high-throughput applications.
• Build metrics collection and analysis tools that help engineers understand and improve infrastructure behaviour.
• Collaborate with a global engineering team supporting research and trading workloads.
• Possibly engage across large-scale compute environments and platform operations.

Skills

Python proficiency

Infrastructure orchestration

Fleet management

High-concurrency frameworks

Static typing

Communication skills

Education

Degree in Physics/Math/CS

Tools

Ansible

REST APIs

Job description

Referment is partnering with a global investment and technology organisation to hire a Systems Developer for high-performance research and trading infrastructure. This hands-on role covers large-scale compute, OS, tooling, networking and storage, with breadth across workload scheduling, fleet management, and platform reliability.

You will design, implement and tune systems engineering solutions, build monitoring tools, and collaborate with an international team supporting critical workloads.