PDT Partners
Performance Engineer
New York, NY · Senior
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About the role
- Performance Engineers at PDT are responsible for deeply understanding and optimizing the systems that enable our trading strategies at scale.
- Your work directly amplifies researcher velocity and scales our core models, creating massive impact through both cost savings and accelerated innovation.
- This is a hybrid position and will require the person to work from our New York City office at a minimum of 3 days a week.
Responsibilities
- Work across the OS, kernel, networking stack, storage subsystems, memory hierarchy, and CPU layers to optimize compute resource utilization.
- Perform deep-dive analysis using Linux performance tools to identify bottlenecks, latency outliers, and non-scalable patterns.
- Read and understand software layers, from application code through language runtimes, system libraries, and kernel code paths, providing suggestions/PRs that optimize critical paths.
- Develop systems to improve performance telemetry and observability
- Conduct proof-of-concept evaluations of new performance technologies (new kernel features, alternative system libraries) and contribute to system design decisions.
- Observability and telemetry: Experience building or integrating monitoring and observability infrastructure (Prometheus, Grafana, OpenTelemetry).
- PDT Partners has a stellar 30+ year track record and a reputation for excellence.
Requirements
- Performance tooling: proficiency with perf, eBPF, Ftrace, strace, sysstat, and related tracing/profiling tools.
Nice to have
- Analyze and understand end-to-end system performance to enhance researcher throughput and velocity.
- Free up capacity, reduce costs, and scale models by improving computational efficiency through tuning, configuration, and architectural changes.
- Work collaboratively with development teams to catch performance regressions, review performance-sensitive code, and share optimization learnings across the organization
Compensation
- The salary range for this role is between $195,000 and $225,000.
- Factors that may impact the agreed upon salary within the range for a particular candidate include years of experience, level of education obtained, skill set, and other external factors.
Benefits
- This range is not inclusive of any potential bonus amounts.
Company info
- Performance Engineer We're looking for an exceptional Performance Engineer to join our growing technology organization.
- Below is a list of skills and experiences we think are relevant. Even if you don't think you're a perfect match, we still encourage you to apply because we are committed to developing our people.
- Even if you don't think you're a perfect match, we still encourage you to apply because we are committed to developing our people.
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