Linux Engineer – Buyside

Company: Vertus Partners
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Location: London
Job Description:

My client, an investment manager specialising in systematic trading are 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.

Requirements

  • 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.

Given the client boasts a very collaborative environment where you’ll work closely with a number of different teams, this position will require you to be in office at least 4 days p/w in London.

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Posted: June 6th, 2026