Denu Recruit · 1 month ago
Senior Linux Engineer
New York, United States
Full-time
Onsite
Mid, Senior Level
$500K/yr - $700K/yr
4+ years expDenu Recruit is hiring for a Senior Linux Engineer to join the Compute Engineering team at a leading hedge fund and market maker. This role involves writing code that shapes the Linux OS, making kernel-level changes, and tuning for ultra-low latency to support global trading and research systems.
Staffing & Recruiting
Hiring Manager
Aaron Shakeshaft
Responsibilities
Writing and maintaining tools and infrastructure around the Linux OS
Working closely with hardware and trading teams to fine-tune system performance
Digging deep into memory, CPU, and I/O behavior to uncover and fix bottlenecks
Automating the build, test, and release of custom Linux images
Helping shape the future of Linux systems at scale in a highly technical, low-latency environment
Qualification
Required
4-8 years of deep Linux experience — ideally across RHEL, CentOS, or Ubuntu
Strong coding skills in Python (bonus points for C++ or Rust)
Experience tuning system performance (kernel parameters, memory, scheduling, etc.)
Knowledge of infrastructure-as-code tools (e.g. Ansible, Terraform, Packer) is a plus
Someone who's curious, hands-on, and thrives in an engineering-driven culture
Company
Denu Recruit
Denu Recruit (pronounced Denee) is a UK recruitment company focused on hiring software engineering into start-up and scale up tech firms.
0-1 employees
Funding
Current Stage
Early StageCompany data provided by crunchbase