What you’ll do
as a Performance Engineer Intern at Akuna :
We are seeking to grow our Performance Engineering Team, which is focused on a rigorous and holistic approach to improving software, hardware, and strategy performance.
This team is responsible for maintaining and increasing our competitiveness at the various exchanges Akuna does business with around the globe.
As a member of this multidisciplinary team, you will be responsible for investigating new opportunities for optimizations and bringing these ideas to fruition.
This can be achieved through software optimizations, analysis of hardware, orchestration of physical installations, analysis of exchange specific protocols, or building tools for gauging Akuna’s performance.
In this role, you will :
- Contribute to the design and implementation of performance engineering solutions for our trading software suite. This includes benchmarking of systems, evaluation of devices, latency analysis, and the development of tools to assess performance.
- Review Akuna’s data center infrastructure and propose implementable changes to maximize the efficiency of our connections.
- Develop tools and applications for benchmarking new devices and software.
- Use a data driven approach to collaborate with relevant trading, quant, and technology teams to expand and improve our systems, footprint, and latency across strategies and exchanges.
- Guide the optimization and normalization for our existing exchange connections.
- Review and analyze how we leverage our proprietary systems and consider how we can improve our technology stack to better our trading success.
Qualities that make great candidates :
- Pursuing BS / MS / PhD in technical field - Computer Science, Math, Physics, Engineering
- Strong Python programming background
- Experience with Linux is required
- Exposure to fundamental networking concepts (TCP, UDP, unicast, multicast)
- Exposure to introductory Computer Architecture and Systems Programming
- Object-oriented design and programming experience
- Exposure to introductory statistics and linear algebra
- Highly collaborative in nature - excellent written and verbal communication skills
- Ability to work on cross-functional teams including trading, development, IT, and quant
- Must graduate by August 2026
- GPA of 3.5 or above
- Legal authorization to work in the U.S. is required on the first day of employment including F-1 students using CPT, OPT or STEM
Please note : This year, candidates will only be considered for their top preference role due to the high volume of applications we receive.
By submitting this application, you acknowledge that you will not be considered for other Tech and / or Quant roles at Akuna for this recruiting season.
Resumes must be submitted in PDF format.
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