Trading Systems Performance Engineer

Overview What you will do:Work with the very latest innovative and cutting edge technologies used in financial trading.Recreate complex low latency trading topologies and scenarios in our dedicated lab environment.Provide critical thinking to challenging problems and work as part of a team to help solve them.Work with stakeholders to identify and formulate lab testing scenarios.Use the dedicated lab and tools you develop to explore and test innovative trading scenarios to prove/disprove hypothesis.Identify, recommend, implement and drive optimizations in the production trading environment from the results of the testing.In depth analysis of production trading and lab network data, from many sources and formats.Become an expert on all aspects of the low latency trading environment.Drive testing automation efforts.Work with external vendors and companies on new products, features and technologies to keep SIG at the forefront of Ultra Low Latency Trading.What we're looking forHighly motivated, meticulous, articulate and deeply curious about all aspects of technologies used in a trading environment.Excellent software development, testing, trouble shooting and analysis skills using C/C++ and C#.Extensive knowledge of computer internals, operating systems and networking.Data analysis experience in Python using Jupyter Notebooks.Python and Powershell scripting experience.Great if you also have:Experience in a low latency trading environment. Practical knowledge of the following network protocols BGP, IGMP, PIM, Ethernet, IP, UDP, TCP, LLDP etcExperience using FPGA's and technologies used in a Low latency networking environment. (Solarflare, Kernel bypass, etc)Knowledge or experience of DC operations.SIG does not post salary information, so any salary information you find online may not be accurate because it was not provided or verified by SIG.