Senior Performance Engineer
Core
Senior system support engineer responsible for diagnosing and resolving production issues in proprietary trading systems under live market conditions, ensuring seamless trade execution.
Role type
Senior IC system support engineer (trading infrastructure)
Builds
Proprietary trading stack including order entry, market data, execution, and risk systems
Domain
Financial services / High-frequency trading
Required skills
Linux OS administration, scripting and automation (Python, Shell), incident response and root cause analysis, version control (Git), system monitoring and alerting
Preferred skills
C++ or Rust, leading customer support teams, financial or trading environment experience
Responsibilities
Diagnose and resolve urgent production issues across trading systems; own end-to-end incident response including postmortems; build monitoring tools and dashboards to correlate system performance with trading outcomes; collaborate with traders and engineers on the trading floor; drive continuous improvement of operational processes