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Performance Optimization Engineer

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Citadel Securities

2021-12-03 08:58:18

Job location Chicago, Illinois, United States

Job type: fulltime

Job industry: Banking & Financial Services

Job description

In this role, you will join our specialist team of technicians to make research driven improvements to the performance of our trading systems. This role is a opportunity for a curious individual to make a meaningful impact on the business, by designing solutions to the most interesting challenges in the operation of a ultra-low latency trading platform. This individual will work with all areas of the business to identify bottlenecks, and have the remit to perform R&D, prototype and test innovative solutions to push our trading system forward, with a particular focus on low latency infrastructure, servers, networking, timing, market data handling, and hardware acceleration.


Responsibilities


Continuously iterate and improve performance of our system by:


  • Measuring latencies across our network and trading stack to identify new optimization opportunities
  • Driving platform research and development with emerging hardware and software solutions to improve performance and eliminate system bottlenecks
  • Driving technology adoption across our server, networking, and market data teams
  • Driving our precision timing stack, from time source to trading application
  • Communicating effectively with the various engineering and trading teams on the latest systems performance information and potential improvements


Qualifications


  • 4+ years experience working in the low latency trading industry in a similar capacity
  • Preferred degree in computer engineering, computer science
  • Linux deployment, administration, kernel bypass, and tuning experience required
  • Timing infrastructure (GNSS, PTP, PPS) experience required
  • Python experience required
  • Linux kernel patching desirable
  • C/C++ experience desirable
  • Knowledge of the full stack of a trading system


About Citadel Securities


Citadel Securities is a leading global market maker across a broad array of fixed income and equity products. Our unique set of capabilities and tools are designed to drive down the cost of transactions, helping to meet the liquidity needs of asset managers, banks, broker-dealers, hedge funds, government agencies, and public pension programs. We strive to provide the most efficient execution and the highest caliber of services, making markets more fair and accessible for all.


The team makes its mark every day from our offices around the world: Chicago, New York, Austin, London, Hong Kong, Toronto, Shanghai, Sydney, Dublin, Zurich.

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