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Software Engineer – High Performance C++ Systems
Sentiro Partners has been retained by a frontier research organization operating at the intersection of advanced mathematics, large-scale systems engineering, and real-world deployment at extreme scale. They're solving problems that sit at the absolute edge of what's computationally tractable; where theoretical breakthroughs need to become production systems that process staggering volumes of data with microsecond-level precision.
This isn't your typical tech shop. The work combines the intellectual depth of a top-tier research lab with the engineering rigor of the most demanding production environments. Think: PhD-level researchers working alongside world-class systems engineers, building infrastructure where a naive implementation simply won't work and elegant solutions have measurable, significant impact.
They're in the midst of a significant infrastructure rebuild, taking systems that worked brilliantly in controlled environments and re-architecting them to operate globally, continuously, under constraints that would make most engineering orgs nervous. The caliber of people is exceptional. The problems are genuinely unsolved. The resources to do it properly are there.
If you've been at performance-critical research-driven organizations and found yourself wondering what it would be like to work on the hardest technical problems in that space without the organizational calcification, this is worth your attention.
Insider Insight
You know that feeling when you shave 200 microseconds off a critical path and it actually matters? That's Tuesday here.
This team builds the kind of systems where "fast enough" isn't in the vocabulary. We're talking globally distributed infrastructure operating at the edge of what's physically possible; where latency is measured in single-digit microseconds, correctness is non-negotiable, and your code ships to production where it immediately either works or doesn't.
If you've ever looked at a flame graph at 2AM because something felt wrong even though all the metrics looked fine, you'll understand the vibe.
What You'll Actually Do
You'll build high-performance C++ systems that process enormous volumes of data with brutal latency constraints. Think lock-free algorithms, cache-aware data structures, and the kind of optimization work where you're reading compiler output and thinking about branch prediction.
The problems are legitimately hard. Taking a complex technical challenge and producing something elegant that also screams "that's the craft". You'll work directly with brilliant engineers and researchers who care about both theoretical correctness and practical performance. Ideas move from whiteboard to production fast, and you'll own what you build all the way through.
This means monitoring your systems in prod, debugging the weird behavior that only shows up under real load, and continuously making things better. The feedback loop is immediate. The impact is measurable. The work is real.
What We're Looking For
You write serious C++. Not just syntactically correct code, but the kind that makes other engineers say "oh, that's clever" when they read it six months later. You think about performance as a feature, not an afterthought.
MINIMUM OF 2-6 years PG experience in production; ideally on core systems
You understand how computers actually work. Memory hierarchies, concurrency primitives, thread scheduling; you know why these things matter and how to make them work in your favor. Bonus points if you've ever had an opinion about memory ordering semantics.
You're intellectually curious. When something is slow, you want to know why. When a system behaves unexpectedly, you dig until you find the root cause. You read papers. You try things. You measure everything.
You communicate clearly and own your work. High-ownership environment means exactly that; you're trusted to make decisions, ship code, and live with the consequences. You can explain complex technical decisions to non-technical stakeholders without the condescension.
You have a degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or something that convinced you computers are interesting. What you've built since matters more than where you studied.
Who Thrives Here
Engineers from search infrastructure, databases, game engines, large scale trading or anywhere else where performance is existential. If you've built systems that process millions of requests per second, operated large-scale distributed infrastructure, or optimized hot paths in production code that actually mattered; you'll recognize the problems.
The Bottom Line
This is for people who think systems programming is an art form, who get genuinely excited about squeezing more performance out of existing hardware, and who want to work on problems that are technically interesting and commercially critical.
If you're tired of writing CRUD apps and want to work where the constraints are real and the technical problems are
About the Company
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