Lead Founding Engineer, HPC & Low-Latency Cloud

Harrington Starr; Tennessee; Remote; USD 150,000 - 230,000; Full time

Job summary

Harrington Starr is seeking a Senior Engineer for Low Latency and HPC workloads in a fully remote, B2B contract role. You will own the AWS infrastructure, focusing on low-latency, high-throughput environments and cost optimisation within a quantitative trading context.

The ideal candidate combines deep AWS expertise with performance engineering experience, working closely with engineering and trading teams to scale and optimise the infrastructure supporting a growing trading operation.

Responsibilities

• Designing and optimising AWS infrastructure for low-latency and high-performance workloads
• Identifying and resolving infrastructure bottlenecks related to latency, throughput and compute performance
• Analysing AWS usage and driving meaningful cost optimisation
• Balancing performance, reliability, scalability and infrastructure spend
• Optimising compute resources as trading workloads scale
• Monitoring infrastructure performance and identifying areas for improvement
• Building resilient and scalable infrastructure supporting a growing trading operation
• Collaborating with engineering and trading teams to drive technical ownership
• Taking end-to-end ownership of infrastructure architecture and decisions

Job description

Harrington Starr is seeking a Senior Engineer for Low Latency and HPC workloads in a fully remote, B2B contract role. You will own the AWS infrastructure, focusing on low-latency, high-throughput environments and cost optimisation within a quantitative trading context.

The ideal candidate combines deep AWS expertise with performance engineering experience, working closely with engineering and trading teams to scale and optimise the infrastructure supporting a growing trading operation.