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Senior Low Latency C++ Developer

Balyasny seeks a C++ specialist for systematic trading technology. The engineer builds latency-sensitive components, exchange connections and order-management functionality.

What you’d work on

Our reading of the posting: what a new hire in this role would most likely spend their first months on.

Implement exchange and order-routing components.
Profile latency and throughput.
Improve risk checks and system resilience.

What they ask for

Required

Modern C++
Production trading systems
Linux programming
Networking
Algorithms and data structures
Distributed design

Preferred

Rust
FPGA concepts
RDMA
Containers

Education: No degree requirement stated.
Experience: Proven production experience with latency-sensitive trading systems; no year minimum given.
Languages and tools: C++
Python
Rust
Linux
Docker
Kubernetes

How to prepare

Benchmark an order-processing component.
Study UDP multicast and exchange protocols.
Test risk checks under concurrent updates.

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SelfMadeQuant wrote this summary from the employer’s public posting, last checked 6 November 2026. SelfMadeQuant isn’t affiliated with Balyasny Asset Management and doesn’t handle applications.