Linux Engineer (low latency), London, England, United Kingdom

Linux Engineer (low latency)

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Overview

My client, an investment manager specialising in systematic trading, is looking for a talented Linux Engineer to join their high-performance, low-latency platform team.

You’ll collaborate with some of the industry’s top developers, quants, and platform engineers, helping to design, deploy, and refine deterministic, microsecond-level systems.

If you thrive in the Linux ecosystem, enjoy solving kernel-level challenges, and want to push bare-metal systems to their limits while writing performance-critical code, this could be the role for you.

Responsibilities

Collaborate with developers, quants, and platform engineers to design, deploy, and refine high-performance low-latency systems.
Contribute to kernel-level work and performance-critical code in Linux environments.
Help ensure deterministic, microsecond-level system behavior on a high-performance platform.

Qualifications

Demonstrated capability working in low-latency domains where timing is paramount.
Practical exposure to data-path acceleration methods that avoid conventional kernel boundaries.
Skilled in interpreting hardware-level performance signals and applying profiling/analysis tools for deep system diagnostics.
Proficiency in at least one mainstream programming language.
Solid grasp of modern CPU microarchitectures and their performance implications.
Familiarity with precise time-synchronisation mechanisms (e.g., PTP) and the examination of packet traffic at scale.
Experience automating infrastructure through configuration/orchestration frameworks such as Ansible, Terraform, or Python is a plus.

Location and schedule

In-office requirement: at least 4 days per week in London.

Employment type

Full-time

Seniority level

Mid-Senior level

Compensation

Base pay range provided by Vertus Partners; actual pay depends on skills and experience. London Area: £120,000.00–£220,000.00 (plus bonuses).

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Location:: London, England, United Kingdom
Salary:: £125,000 - £150,000
Job Type:: FullTime
Category:: IT & Technology

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