Sr Engineering Manager

Job Summary

About The Team We are looking for an Engineering Manager to lead backend infrastructure powering mission-critical, ultra-low latency systems. This role will own high-performance distributed systems that process millions of events per second with strict SLA, determinism, and fault tolerance requirements. You will lead a team building core components such as order management systems (OMS), risk engines (RMS), matching engines, market data pipelines, and real-time ledger systems. This is not a generic backend role - this is systems engineering at scale.

Responsibilities

• Architect and evolve backend systems for ultra-low latency workloads
• Own performance benchmarking, load testing, and capacity planning
• Drive decisions on storage engines (e.g., RocksDB, in-memory stores, log-based systems)
• Ensure correctness under high concurrency
• Lead production incident reviews and postmortems
• Collaborate with Product, Risk, and Infra teams
• Define SLAs and SLOs for critical systems
• Establish observability practices for latency, throughput, and determinism

Requirements

• Distributed systems design
• Concurrency and multi-threading
• Memory management and performance tuning
• Network stack fundamentals
• Linux internals (epoll, kernel tuning, NUMA awareness)
• Experience With: Java / C++ / Rust (low-level performance optimization)
• In-memory data stores
• Event streaming systems
• Lock-free or low-lock architectures
• High-throughput message queues
• Load testing at scale

Preferred Qualifications

• Trading systems / exchange / fintech infra experience
• OMS, RMS, or matching engine exposure
• Deterministic system design
• Market data systems
• Kernel bypass (DPDK), if applicable

Leadership & Competencies

• Think in microseconds, not milliseconds
• Performance-first mindset
• Strong bias for measurement over opinion
• Calm under production pressure
• High ownership mentality
• Ability to balance technical depth with people leadership

You know you're winning when

• Reduce p99 latency by X%
• Improve throughput capacity by Y%
• Zero Sev-1 incidents from system design flaws
• Build a strong backend team (hire N senior engineers)
• Establish measurable performance benchmarks and CI perf gates

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