[Hiring] System Performance Engineer @Binance

Role Description

We are looking for highly motivated interns to join our engineering team and work on high-performance, low-latency systems that operate under demanding throughput and latency requirements. You will work closely with experienced engineers on performance-critical infrastructure, including:

• High-throughput messaging
• Concurrent processing pipelines
• Networking
• Memory optimization
• Latency-sensitive systems

This internship is designed for candidates with strong fundamentals and exceptional learning potential. Prior experience in low-latency or trading systems is not required. We care more about your ability to understand complex systems, reason from first principles, and systematically make software faster and more efficient.

Responsibilities

• Design and optimize high-throughput, low-latency systems, including messaging infrastructure, concurrent processing pipelines, and networking.
• Identify and resolve performance bottlenecks across CPU, memory, operating systems, networking, and concurrency.
• Optimize memory allocation, data structures, serialization, and multithreaded processing to improve system efficiency.
• Explore advanced optimization techniques, including lock-free architectures, CPU affinity, and memory management.
• Build benchmarking and profiling tools to measure throughput, CPU efficiency, and latency (p50/p99/p999).
• Collaborate with experienced engineers to investigate complex system performance issues and deliver measurable improvements.

Qualifications

• Currently pursuing or recently completed a Master's, MPhil, or PhD in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Computer Systems, or a related technical field.
• Strong foundation in data structures, algorithms, operating systems, networking, memory management, and concurrency.
• Proficiency in at least one programming language, preferably C++, Rust, or Java.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills, with the ability to break complex problems into measurable hypotheses.
• Interest in understanding how software interacts with hardware and how system performance can be improved.
• Strong learning agility, curiosity, and the ability to quickly understand unfamiliar systems and technologies.
• Prior experience in low-latency or trading systems is not required.

Nice to Have

• Experience with high-performance computing, low-latency systems, multithreaded programming, or distributed systems.
• Knowledge of lock-free data structures, CPU caches, NUMA, SIMD, memory pools, or CPU affinity.
• Experience with Linux systems programming, network programming, RDMA, DPDK, io_uring, or eBPF.
• Familiarity with profiling, benchmarking, and performance analysis tools, such as perf or FlameGraph.
• Exposure to compiler/runtime optimization, database or storage internals, or high-performance serialization.
• Contributions to open-source systems projects or relevant academic research.
• Strong competitive programming background, such as ICPC, IOI, NOI, CCPC, or Codeforces.

Benefits

• Shape the future of finance.
• Collaborate with world-class talent in a user-centric global organization with a flat structure.
• Tackle challenging projects in a fast-paced and innovative environment with autonomy.
• Thrive in a results-driven workplace with opportunities for career growth and continuous learning.
• Competitive salary and company benefits.
• Remote-first, work-from-home arrangement (may vary depending on the nature of the role and team).