Performance Engineer
IMC TradingAbout the Role
As a Performance Engineer at IMC, you will play a pivotal role in analysing, optimising, and tuning our systems' interaction with exchange systems holistically. Working closely with traders and engineers, you'll be tasked with uncovering performance improvements across the trading stack.
This role combines technical ingenuity with creative problem-solving to outsmart competition in one of the most demanding technical landscapes.
- Analyse and understand the behaviour of complex, live systems — such as exchange connectivity and market data feeds — using black-box techniques, with no source code access.
- Design, implement, and build working prototypes to test ideas and technologies quickly.
- Liaise effectively with traders, software and hardware engineers, and infrastructure teams to share insights and implement solutions.
- Analyse terabytes of network data using statistical methods to identify patterns, validate hypotheses, and quantify performance improvements.
Requirements
- Comfortable using statistics and data analysis to test hypotheses at scale, not just qualitative or manual investigation
- System-level optimisation or low-level network optimisation — ideally applied to live/external systems rather than static binaries
- Strong understanding of networking, computer internals, and Linux systems
- Proven commercial experience writing and shipping production code