Ld Software Engineer - Low Latency

Company: Quality Control Specialist - Pest Control
Location: Chicago
Posted on: June 2, 2025

Job Description:

Description
This role is responsible for providing vision and guidance to a team of engineers to build performant, secure, scalable, and reliable technology solutions to advance CMEG in the global marketplace and serve risk management needs of customers around the world.

Principal Accountabilities:

• Focuses on Architecture and Solution efficiencies. Balances performance, capacity and reliability with core system functionality.
• Champions optimized application modules and unit tests. Understands low-level design and how to incorporate into the larger application.
• Uses design tools to frequently share and communicate design ideas on larger systems. Comfortable using low level tools to examine the system (i.e. packet capture, hardware counters, etc).
• Utilizes knowledge of modern multi-processor architecture to tune the applications and systems for high throughput and low latency.
• Advocates for pattern usage where appropriate, encouraging best practice and process enhancements
• Defines key metrics driving code optimizations
• Leads discussion of code reviews, advocating for best practices and optimizing code quality; proactively identify and mitigate potential issues and defects as well as identify solution to problems and issues outside code.
• Leads projects and influences across Division stakeholders
  Skills & Software Requirements
  
  
  • Ability to evaluate the characteristics of algorithms and data structures for the given constraint
  • Proficiency in Multi-threading , concurrent data structures, shared memory, asynchronization, JNI, NIO, Hashmap etc.
  • Understands queue theory and various designs and implementations to enhance system performance.
  • Experience working with networking protocols (UDP, TCP)
  • Familiarity with redundancy and fault tolerance techniques
  • Familiar with code profiling tools
  • Usage of EF_VI, JNI, On-load Solar Flare extension APIs preferred
  • Demonstrate the understanding of thread pinning, interrupts, isolating cores, jitters, numa node, TLB Cache's etc. will be an added value.
  • Familiar with JVM internals and garbage collection tuning
  • Knowledge of Terraform, encoding application configurations a plus
  • Packaging and deploying on a cloud platform a plus
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