About this role
IMC Trading has a vacancy for the role of Performance Engineer in Sydney, Australia. The listing was posted on Sep 10, 2026. PakkiNaukri collects this listing from the employer's own posting and re-checks it — the employer's full description and the application itself are on the original listing, linked from this page.
From the employer's listing (short excerpt)
As a Performance Engineer at IMC, you will play a pivotal role in analysing, optimising, and tuning our systems' interaction with exchange systems holistically. Working closely with traders and engineers, you'll be tasked with uncovering performance improvements across the trading stack. This role combines technical ingenuity with creative problem-solving to outsmart competition in one of the most demanding technical landscapes.
Your Core Responsibilities:
Black Box Reverse Engineering and Analysis: Analyse and understand the behaviour of complex, live systems — such as exchange connectivity and market data feeds — using black-box techniques, with no source code access. Design and run statistical experiments against real data to explain emergent real-world phenomena and identify performance bottlenecks and optimisation opportunities. This is investigative work aimed at systems you can observe but not disassemble, not static binary or malware analysis.
Experimentation & Prototyping: Design, implement, and build working prototypes to test ideas and technologies quickly — not specifications for others to build from.