Performance Engineer - Latency & Systems (Trading)

Supergrads; Amsterdam; On-site; EUR 70,000 - 110,000; Full time

Job summary

Supergrads is seeking a technically curious Performance Engineer to improve the performance of highly complex electronic trading environments. You’ll apply Python, Linux, and networking skills to understand real-world behavior and identify actionable optimizations.

The role sits at the intersection of systems engineering, quantitative analysis, and experimentation, where you’ll develop proofs-of-concept and collaborate with traders, hardware specialists and infra teams to deliver measurable

Qualifications

• Strong knowledge of computer architecture, networking and Linux.
• Experience applying reverse engineering or black-box analysis to complex systems.
• Analytical mindset with an interest in data-driven experimentation.

Responsibilities

• Investigating complex systems using black-box analysis and experiments.
• Work with large data sets to uncover patterns and validate theories.
• Identify latency and efficiency improvements across the stack.
• Develop lightweight prototypes to test new approaches.
• Collaborate with traders, software engineers, hardware specialists and infra teams.
• Analyze network behavior with large datasets to understand real-world performance.
• Take ownership of investigations from question to recommendation.

Skills

Python for data analysis

Networking

Linux

Reverse engineering

Data analysis

Computer architecture

Job description

Supergrads is seeking a technically curious Performance Engineer to improve the performance of highly complex electronic trading environments. You’ll apply Python, Linux, and networking skills to understand real-world behavior and identify actionable optimizations.

The role sits at the intersection of systems engineering, quantitative analysis, and experimentation, where you’ll develop proofs-of-concept and collaborate with traders, hardware specialists and infra teams to deliver measurable