Drimva

Jane Street

Low-Latency Engineer

New York, New York, United States · Full-time · Posted Jul 6, 2022

About the job

Designs and optimizes high-performance, low-latency trading systems in collaboration with quantitative researchers and developers.

What you'll do

  • Design and optimize fast-trading systems.
  • Analyze and improve application performance using hardware performance counters and profiling tools.
  • Work on network applications requiring extremely low latency and high throughput.

What they ask for

  • Experience with low-level systems programming and optimization.
  • Experience working on network applications requiring extremely low latency and high throughput.
  • Ability to understand, interpret, and improve application performance using performance counters and profiling tools.
  • Thorough understanding of modern computer architecture.

Nice to have

  • Experience with fast-packet processing in user space and kernel-bypass implementations.
  • Experience with performance challenges in managed-runtime languages and familiarity with a typed functional language.

Tools

OCaml, C, C++, Java, C#, Solarflare OpenOnload, TCPDirect, ef_vi

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