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Our Manhattan based client searching for a Performance Engineer to join a team responsible for systems development in a high throughput, low latency trading environment. The Performance Engineer will be responsible for and contributing to ensure the highest level of performance of a critical system that is central to the equity and options exchanges.This is a direct hire role and will require on-site work every Tuesday in lower Manhattan.This position requires technical proficiency/problem solving as well as an eager attitude, professionalism, and solid communication skills.The successful candidate will play a key role in modeling, building scripts and tools and automating the system performance to continue to maintain a leading position in low latency trading, as well as automating trading system playback. The ideal candidate should be knowledgeable in scripting and programming and have an exposure to C/C code for understanding and reviewing.Responsibilities
- Modeling system capacity and performance characteristics to understand new systems and new features on existing systems that are newly rolled out to market
- Develop framework, scripts and tool set for performance testing
- Develop and automate the performance test suite to cover all aspects of system performance
- Collaborate with architects and developers to understand the performance characteristics of the system
- Automate functional playback test suite to ensure integrity of trading system for all markets
- Develop tools and scripts for Continuous Integration and Delivery
- 5+ years of overall professional experience
- 2+ years hands on experience in programming language like Java, Python, C/C on Linux
- Exposure to C/C code to understand, review and modify
- 1+ years experience with scripting languages like shell, perl, etc.,
- Understanding of network protocols like TCP/IP, Multicast
- Understanding of Linux system performance matrix
- Debugging and troubleshooting experience with gdb, network tools like netstat, tcpdump, etc.,
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or Engineering