Senior Engineer

Senior Engineer

Pico fuels the global capital markets community by providing managed infrastructure solutions and market data that enable clients to efficiently scale their businesses and rapidly access global markets.

As experts at the intersection of financial markets and technology, we deliver infrastructure, connectivity, cloud, and market data solutions that support clients throughout the entire trading lifecycle. Pico is headquartered in New York with offices in Chicago, Dublin, London, Belfast, Madrid, Krakow, Singapore, Seoul, Tokyo, and Sydney.

Pico is seeking an experienced Sr. Engineer to manage and optimize the end-to-end latency for critical market data deployments.

Key responsibilities of the role include:

• Analyze latency needs and help in design, testing and developing Redline InRush software for market data and configure the software to meet those needs
• Collaborate with developers to optimize the software to reflect deployment use case and modify configurations to achieve latency objectives
• Optimize network topology to achieve lowest latency in network
• Utilize experience with network modeling and simulation, and programming in C/C++ and Java to build automation tools for capacity measurement and capacity planning
• Perform and record benchmark latency statistics using tools like VMWare and MYSQL
• Monitor and maintain client production computing networks and applications
• Run tests to benchmark scalability as well as identify bottlenecks and suggest scalability performance improvements
• Monitor the computing & reporting performance of all applications
• Analyze system behavior to fully characterize system components (e.g., the behavior of OS, virtual machines, CPU, I/O subsystems, memory modules, and networks) as well as application behavior
• Build, validate, maintain, and refine high performance characterizations of enterprise computing environments
• Perform technical writing and maintain internal technical system documentation
• Analyze and provide Customer Service on technical issues via technical troubleshooting, debugging and testing, and recommending technical escalations
• Manage all changes to the production trading environment like software changes, hardware platform upgrade, release management, and checkouts
• Linux system administration
• Act as a conduit between customers and internal engineering developers
• Customize Redline applications to each end-client and use-case and provide release management
• Research published benchmarks, system specifications, and other available technical resources
• Coordinate with other developers to further optimize Redline deployments using the latest innovations in technology

Bachelor's Degree is required in Computer Science or Computer Engineering or Computer Information Systems

Salary is commensurate with candidates knowledge and experience. Salary range: $130k-$200k