Performance Engineer
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Performance Engineer
imc· Development (Group)
About this role
As a Performance Engineer at IMC, you will play a pivotal role in analysing, optimising, and tuning our systems' interaction with exchange systems holistically. Working closely with traders and engineers, you'll be tasked with uncovering performance improvements across the trading stack. This role combines technical ingenuity with creative problem-solving to outsmart competition in one of the most demanding technical landscapes.
Your Core Responsibilities:
- Black Box Reverse Engineering and Analysis: Analyse and understand the behaviour of complex, live systems — such as exchange connectivity and market data feeds — using black-box techniques, with no source code access. Design and run statistical experiments against real data to explain emergent real-world phenomena and identify performance bottlenecks and optimisation opportunities. This is investigative work aimed at systems you can observe but not disassemble, not static binary or malware analysis.
- Experimentation & Prototyping: Design, implement, and build working prototypes to test ideas and technologies quickly — not specifications for others to build from.
- Collaboration & Communication: Liaise effectively with traders, software and hardware engineers, and infrastructure teams to share insights and implement solutions.
- System Analysis: Analyse terabytes of network data using statistical methods to identify patterns, validate hypotheses, and quantify performance improvements.
Your Skills and Experience:
Most of the following will apply — we don't expect every candidate to check every box:
- Comfortable using statistics and data analysis to test hypotheses at scale, not just qualitative or manual investigation.
- System-level optimisation or low-level network optimisation — ideally applied to live/external systems rather than static binaries.
- Strong understanding of networking, computer internals, and Linux systems.
- Exposure to low-latency hardware technologies such as Intel CPUs, FPGA, or microwave links is a strong plus, though not required.
- Proven commercial experience writing and shipping production code — Python and/or C++ or Java
About Us
IMC is a research-driven trading firm where quantitative modeling, machine learning, and engineering shape how modern markets are traded. A stabilizing force in markets since 1989, we provide liquidity across trading venues, delivering the best outcome in value and risk management to investors. Using our own technology and capital, we build proprietary systems and algorithms that operate across global markets. Our researchers, traders, and engineers work as a collective, combining rapid experimentation, advanced infrastructure, and real-time feedback to turn insight into execution and execution into advantage.
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Where is the Performance Engineer position at imc located?
This Performance Engineer role at imc is based in Sydney, Australia. The position is listed as on-site or hybrid. Check the full job description or apply directly to confirm the work arrangement.
Which team or department does the Performance Engineer at imc belong to?
This Performance Engineer position is part of the Development (Group) department at imc. See the full job description for more information about the team structure and responsibilities.
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When was the Performance Engineer job at imc posted?
This Performance Engineer position at imc was posted on Sep 9, 2026. Apply as soon as possible — early applications are often reviewed first.
Performance Engineer
imc
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