Senior Go Engineer - Remote, Low-Latency Trading Systems

Job Summary

Multiple openings.

Location:

Chicago, Illinois (Initially Remote).

Employment Type:

Full Time.

• Design and implement low‑latency services in Go for trading infrastructure and market data processing.
• Build and optimize high‑throughput data pipelines for real‑time market data ingestion and order routing.
• Develop lock‑free / wait‑free data structures and concurrency primitives for performance‑critical paths.
• Engineer systems with deterministic execution, minimizing latency variance and tail latency.
• Design and maintain distributed coordination systems using consensus protocols (Raft/Paxos) where required.
• Implement custom networking stacks or optimized RPC frameworks tailored for trading workloads.
• Work closely with Linux internals: syscalls, CPU pinning, NUMA optimization.
• Optimize systems using perf, eBPF, flame graphs, hardware counters and profiling tools.
• Debug production systems under live trading conditions, ensuring stability and performance.
• Collaborate with quants and traders to align system behavior with strategy requirements.

• 10+ years of experience in systems engineering or low‑latency infrastructure.
• 8+ years of production experience with Golang.
• Strong understanding of concurrency and synchronization, memory models and allocation behavior, and experience building real‑time or low‑latency systems (trading, networking, or similar domains).
• Hands‑on expertise with lock‑free programming, atomic operations, multithreaded system design.
• Strong knowledge of Linux internals and performance tuning, experience with profiling and debugging tools.
• Exposure to high‑frequency trading systems or market microstructure.