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Platform Performance Engineer - London- Leading Quant-Driven Market-Maker

London, England, GBFull-time£200k2026-10-21 → 2026-11-10

Core

Drive cost efficiency and optimize throughput/latency for cloud-based and global co-located trading systems.

Role type

Senior Platform Performance Engineer

Builds

Cloud-based trading deployments and global co-located trading infrastructure

Domain

Financial services / High-frequency trading / Cloud infrastructure

Deliverable

infrastructure

Required skills

Linux network diagnostics, TCP/WebSockets/HTTP/TLS/FIX protocols, statically typed programming languages, infrastructure-as-code (Terraform), cloud performance optimization

Preferred skills

AWS to GCP migration, inventory management system integration

Technologies

AWS, GCP, Terraform, Linux

Responsibilities

Drive cost efficiency of existing trading deployments, coordinate A/B performance experiments, adapt AWS-based deployment to new clouds, integrate AWS provisioning into inventory management

Seniority

Senior, hands-on IC