Sr Software Engineer – Low Latency

Objective Partners ·www.objectivepartners.co

Location Chicago, IL, United States
Salary USD 75 - 80 / hour
Type Full time
Level Senior
Source Shazamme
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Sr Software Engineer – Low Latency

This consultant engineers secure, scalable and reliable technology solutions, with minimal mentoring, to advance our client in the global marketplace as well as serve the risk management needs of their global customer base.

Responsibilities:
  • Focus on Architecture and solution efficiencies.  Balances performance, capacity and reliability with core system functionality.
  • Identifies potential opportunities for code optimization. Provides input for code reviews and helps with environment build deployments, release notes and build notices; Reviews code to proactively identify and mitigate potential issues and defects and helps to identify sources of defects as well as troubleshoots various forms of code.
  • Writes optimized application modules and unit tests with minimal guidance. Understands low-level designs and how to incorporate into the larger application.
  • Uses design tools to frequently share and communicate design ideas on larger systems.  Comfortable using low level tools to examine the system (i.e.  packet capture, hardware counters, etc.).
  • Utilizes knowledge of modern multi-processor architecture to tune the applications and systems for high throughput and low latency.
  • Uses patterns frequently, contributing to best practice and process enhancements

Skills & Software Requirements
  • Ability to evaluate the characteristics of algorithms and data structures for the given constraint
  • Proficiency  in Multithreading , concurrent data structures, shared memory, asynchronization, JNI, NIO, HashMap etc.
  • Understands queue theory and various designs and implementations to enhance system performance.
  • Experience working with networking protocols (UDP, TCP)
  • Familiarity with redundancy and fault tolerance techniques
  • Usage of EF_VI, JNI, On-load Solar Flare extension APIs preferred
  • Demonstrate the understanding of thread pinning, interrupts, isolating cores, jitters, numa node, TLB Cache’s etc. will be an added value.
  • Familiar with JVM internals and garbage collection tuning
  • Advanced knowledge of Linux kernel/OS internals

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The Sr Software Engineer – Low Latency role with Objective Partners is based in Chicago, IL, US.
What does the Sr Software Engineer – Low Latency role pay?
Objective Partners lists the Sr Software Engineer – Low Latency role at USD 75–80 per hour.
Is the Sr Software Engineer – Low Latency role full-time or contract?
This is a full time position at Objective Partners.
What experience level is the Sr Software Engineer – Low Latency role?
The Sr Software Engineer – Low Latency position is aimed at senior-level candidates.
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