Systems Developer: Low-Latency Compute & Linux

Referment; New York (NY); On-site; USD 120,000 - 170,000; Full time

Job summary

Referment is hiring a Systems Developer to join a team responsible for high-performance research and trading infrastructure. This hands-on role spans large-scale compute, operating systems, development tooling, networking and storage, in a distributed computing environment.

You will work on workload scheduling, fleet management and platform reliability across Linux systems and data-center hardware. The ideal candidate enjoys investigating complex problems, communicates clearly, and has solid

Qualifications

• Strong programming ability in Python, Go, Rust or a comparable language.
• A computer science or related technical degree, or comparable practical experience of up to five years.
• 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 for large compute environments.
• Contribute to clustered file-system design and operation, software lifecycle 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.

Skills

Python

Go

Rust

Education

CS degree or equivalent

Job description

Referment is hiring a Systems Developer to join a team responsible for high-performance research and trading infrastructure. This hands-on role spans large-scale compute, operating systems, development tooling, networking and storage, in a distributed computing environment.

You will work on workload scheduling, fleet management and platform reliability across Linux systems and data-center hardware. The ideal candidate enjoys investigating complex problems, communicates clearly, and has solid