Low-Latency Systems Intern: Performance Tuning

Binance; United States; Remote; USD 35,000 - 60,000; Part time

Benefits offered by this job

Remote-first

Job summary

Binance is seeking motivated interns to join our engineering team and work on high-performance, low-latency systems that meet demanding throughput requirements.

You will collaborate with experienced engineers on performance-critical infrastructure, including messaging, memory optimization, and latency-sensitive software. Prior trading-system experience is not required; we value learning ability and first-principles reasoning.

Qualifications

• Pursuing or completed Master’s, MPhil, or PhD in CS/CE or related field.
• Strong foundations in data structures, OS, networking and concurrency.
• Proficiency in C++, Rust, or Java with strong analytical skills.
• Interest in understanding hardware interaction and system performance.

Responsibilities

• Design and optimize high-throughput, low-latency systems including messaging and networking.
• Identify and fix performance bottlenecks across CPU, memory, OS, and concurrency.
• Optimize memory allocation, data structures, and multithreaded processing.
• Explore lock-free architectures, CPU affinity, and memory management.
• Build benchmarking and profiling tools to measure throughput and latency.
• Collaborate with engineers to investigate performance issues and implement improvements.

Skills

C++

Rust

Java

Data structures

Operating systems

Networking

Memory management

Concurrency

Analytical thinking

Learning agility

Education

Master's/MPhil/PhD in Computer Science/Engineering

Job description

Binance is seeking motivated interns to join our engineering team and work on high-performance, low-latency systems that meet demanding throughput requirements.

You will collaborate with experienced engineers on performance-critical infrastructure, including messaging, memory optimization, and latency-sensitive software. Prior trading-system experience is not required; we value learning ability and first-principles reasoning.