Trade Performance SRE Engineer - HFT Firm

Our client is a global, esteemed High Frequency Trading Firm. This role sits at the intersection of site reliability engineering and ultra-low latency trading. You’ll own, scale, and optimize the end-to-end execution stack for Chinese equity markets, ensuring the systems run faster and more reliably than anyone else’s.

Key Responsibilities:

• Design, implement, and maintain high-throughput, low-latency trading infrastructure

• Optimize network topology, protocol stack, and kernel parameters for sub-microsecond performance

• Develop real-time telemetry and diagnostics to detect and mitigate performance bottlenecks

• Collaborate with trading, quant, and ops teams to translate latency targets into technical deliverables

• Automate deployment, monitoring, and failover of trading engines and market data feeds

Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related field

• Minimum 5 years of experience on the buy-side or sell-side in electronic equities trading

• Deep hands-on background in Chinese equity markets, trading protocols, and exchanges is ideal.

• Proven track record of driving performance improvements in production trading systems

Technical Skills

• Programming in C/C++ for low-level system development

• Strong Linux performance tuning: kernel, NIC drivers, DPDK, etc.

• Proficiency with hardware timestamping, kernel bypass, and RDMA

• Solid understanding of network protocols (TCP/IP, UDP, multicast) and FPGA basics

• Familiarity with SRE best practices: Helm, Kubernetes, Prometheus, Grafana

Preferred Experience:

• Exposure to market data normalization and FIX/ITCH/OUCH protocols

• Experience with FPGA-accelerated trading or custom network cards

• Knowledge of Python or Go for automation, testing, and orchestration scripts

• Prior contributions to open source performance tools or benchmarking suites

If this outstanding opportunity sounds like your next career move, please submit through "Apply Now" or send your resume in Word format to Saswiko KJ at resume@pinpointasia.com and put Trade Performance SRE Engineer - HFT Firm in the subject header.

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