About this opportunity
Harrington Starr lists this Founding Engineer - HPC/Low Latency opportunity in workfromhome, Tennessee. Review the employer’s description below for duties, qualifications and application requirements.
Job description
Senior Engineer – Low Latency / HPC
Quantitative Trading / Digital Assets | Fully Remote | B2B Contract
The Opportunity
An early-stage quantitative trading firm is looking for an experiencedEngineer to take ownership of the performance, scalability and cost efficiency of its cloud infrastructure.
This is a fully remote opportunity offered on a B2B contract basis , providing flexibility around location while working closely with a highly technical trading and engineering team.
This isn’t a traditional engineering position. The business is specifically looking for someone who understands the infrastructure requirements of low-latency and high-performance computing environments , while also having a strong understanding of AWS cost optimisation .
The Role
You’ll have significant ownership across the AWS environment, including:
Designing and optimising AWS infrastructure for low-latency and high-performance workloads
Identifying and resolving infrastructure bottlenecks across latency, throughput and compute performance
Analysing AWS usage and identifying opportunities for meaningful cost optimisation
Balancing performance, reliability, scalability and infrastructure spend
Optimising compute resources as trading workloads scale
Monitoring infrastructure performance and identifying areas for improvement
Building resilient and scalable infrastructure supporting a growing trading operation
Working closely with both engineering and trading teams
Taking end-to-end ownership of infrastructure architecture and technical decisions
What They’re Looking For
The key requirement is someone who combines deep AWS expertise with genuine performance engineering experience .
Ideally, you’ll have strong experience across:
Production AWS infrastructure
Low-latency, high-throughput and/or HPC environments
Compute and networking performance
Infrastructure performance tuning and bottleneck identification
AWS cost optimisation
Cloud architecture, scalability and resilience
Infrastructure automation and monitoring
Working autonomously and taking technical ownership
Experience within quantitative trading, HFT, electronic trading or digital assets would be particularly relevant, although strong candidates from other performance-sensitive environments will also be considered.
Contract
Fully Remote
B2B Contract
This is an opportunity to join a growing quantitative trading business where infrastructure performance has a direct impact on the trading operation, with substantial ownership over how the environment develops and scales.
#J-18808-Ljbffr
Who can apply
Review the original listing for work authorization, qualifications and employer requirements.