Software Engineer

C++ Engineer | Quantitative Trading | New York / Chicago We are working with a leading quantitative trading firm looking for a C++ engineer to work on high-performance storage and data infrastructure.The team builds systems responsible for moving, storing and accessing large volumes of data with extremely demanding requirements around latency, throughput and reliability. This is a strong fit for engineers coming from high-performance storage, database or distributed systems teams in Big Tech or similarly technical environments.What you’ll work on:Design and build high-performance storage systems in modern C++Optimize I/O, memory usage, concurrency and data access pathsWork on distributed storage and large-scale data infrastructureProfile systems and identify performance bottlenecks across the stackSolve problems involving caching, filesystems, networking and CPU/memory performanceWhat we’re looking for:Strong professional C++ experienceExcellent systems fundamentals across Linux, concurrency, memory and networkingExperience with storage engines, databases, filesystems or distributed storageStrong understanding of performance optimization and profilingBackground from a high-calibre engineering environmentExperience in finance is not required. Engineers from companies such as Google, Meta, Apple, Amazon, Microsoft, NVIDIA and other systems-focused organizations are particularly relevant.