Low-Latency Engineer
Jane Street2 months ago
Responsibilities
- Design and optimize high-performance, low-latency fast-trading systems.
- Work closely with quantitative researchers and developers on holistic systems design and performance improvements.
- Interpret profiling data and hardware performance counters to improve application performance.
Requirements
- Experience with low-level systems programming and optimization.
- Experience building or working on network applications requiring extremely low latency and high throughput.
- Ability to analyze and improve application performance using hardware performance counters and profiling tools.
- Thorough understanding of modern computer architecture, including AMD and Intel x86 cache hierarchies.
- Experience with fast-packet processing in user space and common kernel-bypass implementations is preferred.
- Experience addressing performance challenges in managed-runtime languages such as Java or C# is a plus.
- Familiarity with a typed functional language is a plus.
About Jane Street
Jane Street is a global quantitative trading firm and liquidity provider that builds in-house software and research platforms to trade across asset classes. It makes markets and executes proprietary strategies on exchanges and electronic venues, serving institutional markets rather than individual investors. Founded in 2000 and headquartered in New York, it is privately held with offices in London, Hong Kong, Singapore, and Amsterdam.