Low-Latency / Infrastructure Engineer
CareerXperts Consulting
About the Role
This role is for an engineer who excels at maintaining stability in fast-paced environments. You will be responsible for the foundation of performance, reliability, connectivity, and tooling across infrastructure and runtime systems, ensuring predictable behavior under stress.
Key Responsibilities
- Own and maintain performance, reliability, connectivity, and tooling across infrastructure and runtime systems.
- Ensure predictable behavior under stress through disciplined change management.
- Implement and maintain tight feedback loops.
- Develop and maintain solid runbooks.
- Establish clear escalation paths.
- Conduct honest assessments of potential failure points.
- Collaborate with development, research, and trading teams to balance constraints and priorities.
Requirements & Tech Stack
- Strong Linux fundamentals.
- Strong networking fundamentals.
- Strong performance debugging fundamentals.
- Experience running production systems with monitoring and incident handling.
- Ability to reason clearly about trade-offs under constraints.
Nice to Have
- Low-latency profiling and tuning.
- Efficient I/O.
- Experience with colocated environments.
- Understanding of redundancy patterns.
- Solid coding in Python, C++, or Rust.