Flow Traders is looking for a Performance Engineer to join our Digital Assets Tech Ops team in our Amsterdam office. This is a unique opportunity to be part of a team that ensures the speed, reliability, and efficiency of our digital assets trading systems. As a Performance Engineer, you will be responsible for analysing, optimising, and fine-tuning our infrastructure to reduce latency and enhance trading performance. You will work closely with traders, developers, operations and infrastructure engineers to uncover performance improvements and drive innovation in a highly competitive environment.
What you will do
- Identify and resolve performance bottlenecks across our low-latency trading infrastructure
- Investigate and enhance the efficiency of our connectivity and interactions with digital asset exchanges
- Use black-box analysis, statistical testing, and empirical research to understand and improve system behaviours
- Analyse large-scale system and network data to detect patterns, validate hypotheses, and optimise performance
- Improve the performance and efficiency of our cloud-based trading systems, ensuring ultra-low latency and high availability
- Work closely with traders, software engineers, and infrastructure teams to implement optimisations and share insights
- Build internal tools and frameworks for benchmarking, monitoring, and real-time performance optimization
What you need to succeed
- Between 3-7 years of experience in Performance Engineering roles
- Strong understanding of Linux systems, networking, and system internals, including kernel tuning and low-level optimization
- Experience in reverse engineering, system performance tuning, and low-latency networking
- Proficiency in Python and/or other programming languages such as C++ or Java
- Hands-on experience with performance monitoring, data analysis, and statistical modelling
- Familiarity with cloud-based systems, including AWS, GCP, or other cloud providers
- Ability to work autonomously while effectively collaborating across multidisciplinary teams
- Strong analytical skills, problem-solving ability, and a results-driven mindset
- Prior experience in trading, market-making, or financial systems is a plus
Flow Traders does not accept unsolicited resumes from any professional staffing or search firms. All resumes, and any other information identifying potential candidates, submitted to any employee at Flow Traders via-email, the Internet or directly without a valid and signed search agreement will be deemed free to contact by Flow Traders without any restrictions and no placement fee of any kind will be paid in the event the candidate is hired by Flow Traders.
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What We Do
Since 2004, Flow Traders has been a principal trading firm and one of the world’s largest liquidity providers, specialised in Exchange Traded Products (ETPs). Our headquarters in Amsterdam and offices in New York, Singapore, Hong Kong, Milan and Cluj accommodate more than 500 employees. Throughout the years, Flow Traders has received the industry’s recognition, winning numerous awards and has been listed as a company since 2015. Our non-hierarchical approach stimulates innovation and development. We value creative minds and out-of-the-box thinkers and challenge them to make full use of their capacities. Our demanding, high-paced environment continuously puts us to the test. Flow Traders fosters a strong team-oriented culture which rewards people for their contributions to the company as a whole rather than only in their direct area of responsibility. At Flow Traders, we focus on professional and personal development; we encourage our people to be the best at anything they do by offering the right training. On top of that, we have our private gym where our health coaches provide our people with the right personal sports programs. We invest in our hard working people, because they hold the key to our success.
