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Platform Engineer - Quantitative Trading Firm | London Join a leading quantitative trading firm building globally distributed, ultra-low-latency systems that power their research and execution platform. You’ll work at the intersection of infrastructure, software, and performance engineering - solving deep technical problems at scale. What you’ll do: Own and optimise infrastructure behind a 24/7 web data and trading platform spanning multiple clouds and regions.Tune Linux network stacks, automate infrastructure, and reduce latency across the pipeline.Partner closely with developers and infra teams to improve architecture, reliability, and performance.Drive adoption of modern tooling (Python, Bash, Terraform, Kubernetes, Prometheus, etc.) while staying hands-on. What we’re looking for: Proven experience managing production systems in a global cloud environment, ideally across multi-region or multi-cloud setups.Hands-on experience configuring and managing proxy servers in complex, distributed environmentsSkilled in Python/Bash and comfortable debugging distributed systems.Experience in high-throughput, low-latency, or large-scale environments (finance, trading, or scraping preferred). If you’re an engineer who loves optimisation, systems performance, and solving real production challenges - please apply.