Senior Platform Engineer
On-siteLondon, England, United Kingdom
Job Summary
Design, build, and operate high-performance Linux platforms for low-latency electronic trading, engineering from the hardware and kernel level up. Architect new system designs and next-generation deployment models, including immutable infrastructure, containerization, and automated provisioning pipelines. Perform deep performance engineering and latency optimization through kernel tuning, CPU isolation, NUMA awareness, and kernel-bypass networking. Write production-quality code and automation to build tooling and improve platform reliability. Leverage Agentic AI tools to accelerate engineering tasks and automate research and remediation. Interface with hardware and software vendors to define the next generation of Electronic Trading Platform infrastructure. Mentor and influence SRE, peer engineers, and senior stakeholders across business, product, and technology teams.
Required Qualifications
- Formal training or certification in software/systems engineering concepts
- 10+ years of applied, hands-on experience
- Strong programming skills with the ability to build production-grade tooling and automation
- Python
- Go
- Bash
- Deep, hands-on Linux engineering expertise
- Linux administration
- Linux internals
- Linux performance tuning
- Linux benchmarking
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux
- Proven experience engineering for low-latency, high-throughput environments
- kernel tuning
- CPU/NUMA optimization
- precision timing
- Hands-on experience with kernel-bypass networking
- Solarflare Onload
- Hands-on experience applying Agentic AI tools
- AI coding assistants
- agent-based workflows
- Extensive experience with configuration management
- Chef
- Ansible
- Solid understanding of IPv4 networking
- OSI model
- unicast/broadcast/multicast
- routing
- network segregation mechanisms
- Experience designing CI/CD pipelines
- infrastructure-as-code
- Terraform
- Practical cloud-native and container/orchestration experience
- Docker
- Kubernetes
- Experience leading cross-functional teams of technologists
- hiring
- developing
- recognizing talent
- Expertise in Computer Science
- Computer Engineering
- related technical field
Desired Qualifications
- Experience building or integrating Agentic AI / LLM-based workflows and automation into engineering pipelines
- Experience mentoring SRE and partner teams on automation best practices
- systems design
- modern infrastructure management
- Experience with server hardware selection
- BIOS/firmware tuning
- bare-metal provisioning
- performance-sensitive workloads
- Familiarity with observability and telemetry stacks
- Prometheus
- Grafana
- ELK
- Experience with market-data and messaging technologies common to electronic trading
- multicast market data
- low-latency messaging buses
- Performing research, development, and risk analysis
- Understanding of standard cryptography
- certificates
- key pairs
- secure communication
- Experience with database management systems
- PostgreSQL
- Experience leading a product as a Product Owner
- Product Manager
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