Acquire Me

C++ Runtime & Performance Engineer

New York City Metropolitan Area • Posted Yesterday
Onsite Full Time Capital Markets

C++ Runtime & Performance Engineer | Quantitative Trading | New York / Chicago


We are working with a top quantitative trading firm looking for an engineer with deep expertise in C++, Linux and systems performance.


The team works on some of the lowest-level components of the firm's technology stack, focusing on extracting performance from modern hardware and improving the efficiency and predictability of latency-sensitive systems.


What you’ll work on:

  • Build and optimize performance-critical C++ systems
  • Investigate CPU, memory and concurrency bottlenecks
  • Work on memory allocation, threading, synchronization and runtime behaviour
  • Profile applications from software down to the underlying hardware
  • Improve cache efficiency, data layout and execution performance
  • Develop low-level tooling and infrastructure used by other engineers


What we’re looking for:

  • Deep C++ and Linux experience
  • Strong understanding of memory management, concurrency and CPU architecture
  • Experience profiling and optimizing complex systems
  • Knowledge of caches, NUMA, allocators, atomics and synchronization
  • Experience with compilers, runtimes, kernels, databases, browsers, networking or other performance-sensitive systems is highly relevant


No previous trading experience is required. This is particularly relevant for engineers working on performance-sensitive infrastructure, runtimes, operating systems, compilers, browsers or large-scale C++ systems.

C++ Runtime & Performance Engineer in New York City Metropolitan Area at Acquire Me

This position is listed as full time and onsite. It was posted yesterday.

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