Binance Accelerator Program - System Performance Engineer (AI)

Location: Singapore; remote-first, work-from-home arrangement may vary depending on the role and team.

Company

Binance operates a global blockchain ecosystem spanning cryptocurrency trading, finance, payments, education, research, and institutional services.

What you will do

• Design and optimize high-throughput, low-latency systems, including messaging infrastructure, concurrent processing pipelines, and networking.
• Identify and resolve performance bottlenecks across CPU, memory, operating systems, networking, and concurrency.
• Optimize memory allocation, data structures, serialization, and multithreaded processing.
• Explore lock-free architectures, CPU affinity, and advanced memory-management techniques.
• Build benchmarking and profiling tools to measure throughput, CPU efficiency, and p50/p99/p999 latency.
• Collaborate with experienced engineers to investigate complex performance issues and deliver measurable improvements.

Requirements

• Currently pursuing or recently completed a Master's, MPhil, or PhD in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Computer Systems, or a related technical field.
• Strong knowledge of data structures, algorithms, operating systems, networking, memory management, and concurrency.
• Proficiency in at least one programming language, preferably C++, Rust, or Java.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills, with the ability to develop measurable hypotheses for complex systems.
• Interest in how software interacts with hardware and how system performance can be improved.
• Strong learning agility and curiosity; prior low-latency or trading-systems experience is not required.

Nice to have

• Experience with high-performance computing, low-latency systems, multithreaded programming, or distributed systems.
• Knowledge of lock-free data structures, CPU caches, NUMA, SIMD, memory pools, or CPU affinity.
• Experience with Linux systems programming, network programming, RDMA, DPDK, io_uring, or eBPF.
• Familiarity with profiling, benchmarking, and performance-analysis tools such as perf or FlameGraph.
• Exposure to compiler or runtime optimization, database or storage internals, high-performance serialization, open-source systems projects, academic research, or competitive programming.

Culture & Benefits

• Remote-first, work-from-home arrangement, subject to the nature of the role and team.
• Collaboration with experienced engineers and world-class talent in a global, user-centric organization.
• Flat structure with autonomy on challenging, performance-critical projects.
• Opportunities for career growth and continuous learning.
• Competitive salary and company benefits.