Performance Engineer: Microsecond Trading Optimizations

Supergrads; Amsterdam; On-site; EUR 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

Supergrads is seeking a technically curious Performance Engineer to optimize highly complex electronic trading environments. You will investigate how trading infrastructure behaves, identify latency sources, and develop practical improvements with data-driven experiments.

Expect to work across disciplines with traders, software engineers, and hardware teams. Strong Python and networking or Linux experience is essential to drive measurable performance gains.

Qualifications

• Advanced professional experience with Python and Networks or Linux is a must-have.
• Strong analytical mindset with data-driven investigation.
• Ability to work independently and across disciplines.

Responsibilities

• Investigate complex systems using black-box analysis and experimentation.
• Work with large data sets to uncover patterns in exchange and network technology.
• Identify latency and efficiency improvements across the tech stack.
• Build lightweight prototypes and proofs-of-concept.
• Collaborate with traders, software engineers, and infrastructure teams to translate findings into changes.
• Analyze network behavior with statistical methods and experiments.

Skills

Python

Networking

Linux

Job description

Supergrads is seeking a technically curious Performance Engineer to optimize highly complex electronic trading environments. You will investigate how trading infrastructure behaves, identify latency sources, and develop practical improvements with data-driven experiments.

Expect to work across disciplines with traders, software engineers, and hardware teams. Strong Python and networking or Linux experience is essential to drive measurable performance gains.