Senior Engineer

About the role

Pico fuels the global capital markets community by providing exceptional market data services and customized managed infrastructure solutions. As financial industry experts at the center of markets and technology, we help our clients efficiently scale their business and quickly access markets. From infrastructure to connectivity, we support our clients through the full trading lifecycle. We are a global company headquartered in New York, with offices in Chicago, London, Singapore, Hong Kong and Tokyo.

About Pico

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.

Purpose of the Role

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: (to include but not limited to)

- Analyze Latency Needs and the 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.

- Build models using Java to simulate what if scenarios for measuring capacity

- Automate capacity measurement and estimation using C/C++ to simulate network failures

- Measure current software capacity against performance thresholds

- Develop tools using programming in C/C++ and Java to measure and simulate capacity of the software and network

- Analyze trends and predict changes for future capacity expansion using prediction models and stochastic functions

Perform and record benchmark latency statistics using tools like VMWare and MYSQL.

- Create a variety of models using VMWare and other measurement frameworks to record performance and latency benchmark

- Store the results in MYSQL database for querying and retrieving performance benchmarks across different deployments

- Map results from the MYSQL database against deployment Service Level Agreements and suggest corrective actions

Monitor and maintain client production computing networks and applications.

- Ensure that the Redline InRush and Redline Execution Gateway software continues to function through changes and upgrades