Acquire Me · 8 hours ago
Senior Software Engineer
New York, United States
Full-time
Onsite
Senior Level
$250K/yr - $350K/yrAcquire Me is a top-tier systematic trading firm building the core compute and scheduling platform for live research, simulation, and trading. The role involves designing and building resource isolation and performance control for shared compute, with a focus on scheduler design and cost-aware optimization in a multi-tenant environment.
Staffing & Recruiting
Hiring Manager
Sanj Mahendran
Responsibilities
Designing and building resource isolation and performance control for shared compute
Scheduler and control-plane design across large-scale clusters
Tail-latency reduction and variance control, not just averages
Cost-aware scheduling and utilisation optimisation informed by real workloads
Safe experimentation on production infrastructure (A/B testing, canaries, staged rollout)
Low-level systems work touching Linux primitives, containers, and orchestration layers
Close collaboration with quantitative researchers on compute-intensive workloads
Qualification
Required
Experience designing and building infrastructure, not just operating it
Experience with cluster scheduling, resource isolation, or multi-tenant compute
Comfort working close to the OS, scheduler, or runtime layer
Languages such as Go, C++, Java, or Python used in infrastructure or performance-critical contexts
Ability to reason about performance using quantitative and statistical thinking
Preferred
STEM academic background from a top-ranked institution preferred, particularly in mathematically rigorous fields
Company
Acquire Me
We are a specialist technology recruiting firm dedicated to connecting the brightest and best STEM talent into the most exciting opportunities across the world’s most renowned scientific-led quantitative hedge funds, proprietary trading firms and high-growth start-ups.
Founded in 2018
11-50 employees
Funding
Current Stage
Early StageLeadership Team
Sanj Mahendran
Co-Founder
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