Director - Performance Engineering

Land Securities Group

London, United Kingdom
Hybrid
Low-latency, high-throughput market data system
Real-time services performance
Performance engineering strategy
You will build and lead a world-class Performance Engineering function responsible for the performance, capacity, scalability, efficiency, and resiliency of real-time services

Job Summary

  • You will build and lead a world-class Performance Engineering function responsible for the performance, capacity, scalability, efficiency, and resiliency of real-time services.
  • Your team will partner closely with SRE, RT Platform Tools & Automation, Architecture, Product Engineering squads, and Ops Excellence to ensure our RT workloads consistently meet stringent latency, throughput, jitter, and concurrency expectations under all conditions.
  • Join us and be part of a team that values innovation, quality, and continuous improvement.

Matching Summary

You will build and lead a world-class Performance Engineering function responsible for the performance, capacity, scalability, efficiency, and resiliency of real-time services.

Skills & Requirements

Must-have

  • low-latency, high-throughput market data system
  • real-time services performance
  • performance engineering strategy
  • performance testing frameworks
  • capacity forecasting and headroom analysis
  • performance-related incident reviews

Nice-to-have

  • high emotional intelligence
  • navigate organizational complexity
  • align performance insights with cost efficiency
  • sustainability across global business

Key Requirements

  • 15+ years in high-scale, real-time engineering
  • Expertise in C++, distributed systems, multithreading
  • Solid base in operating system internals, kernel tuning
  • Experience with performance engineering for containers, Kubernetes/EKS
  • Proven leadership in building global engineering functions

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