Job Description

As a pioneer in low latency trading, Susquehanna is at the forefront in advances in the technology used to trade markets all around the world. As a Low Latency Trading Systems Research Engineer, you will be instrumental in driving enhancements and optimizations in how Susquehanna trades global markets in an extremely competitive environment.

At Susquehanna, we don't believe in silos, we've proven that people do their best work when they have the freedom to explore, experiment and collaborate with other brilliant minds and as such this role engages close partnership with Traders, Trading and Quantitative Researchers, FPGA Developers, System and Network Engineers to continually analyze and optimize our trading, using data from lab experimentation, production data and the candidates own experiences and intuitions. The work done here has a direct impact on our trading business, and every single aspect of the environment is pulled apart and scrutinized, from physical cabling, fiber optics, transceivers, network stacks, all the way up to exchange level protocol specifications.

What you will do:

• Work with the very latest innovative and cutting edge technologies used in financial trading.
• Recreate complex low latency trading topologies and scenarios in our dedicated lab environment.
• Provide critical thinking to challenging problems and work as part of a team to help solve them.
• Work with stakeholders to identify and formulate lab testing scenarios.
• Use the dedicated lab and tools you develop to explore and test innovative trading scenarios to prove/disprove hypothesis.
• Identify, recommend, implement and drive optimizations in the production trading environment from the results of the testing.
• In depth analysis of production trading and lab network data, from many sources and formats.
• Become an expert on all aspects of the low latency trading environment.
• Drive testing automation efforts.
• Work with external vendors and companies on new products, features and technologies to keep SIG at the forefront of Ultra Low Latency Trading.

What we’re looking for

• Highly motivated, meticulous, articulate and deeply curious about all aspects of technologies used in a trading environment.
• Excellent software development, testing, trouble shooting and analysis skills using C/C++ and C#.
• Extensive knowledge of computer internals, operating systems and networking.
• Data analysis experience in Python using Jupyter Notebooks.
• Python and Powershell scripting experience.

Great if you also have:

• Experience in a low latency trading environment.
• Practical knowledge of the following network protocols BGP, IGMP, PIM, Ethernet, IP, UDP, TCP, LLDP etc
• Experience using FPGA's and technologies used in a Low latency networking environment. (Solarflare, Kernel bypass, etc)
• Knowledge or experience of DC operations.

Susquehanna does not post salary information, so any salary information you find online may not be accurate because it was not provided or verified by SIG.Susquehanna does not accept unsolicited resumes from recruiters or search firms. Any resume or referral submitted in the absence of a signed agreement will become the property of SIG and no fee will be paid.

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