Pedro Flemming, Jane Street
How do you build reliable, maintainable and performant systems that trade billions of dollars every day in financial markets across the globe?
When your software has near-unlimited access to your bank account, every single message counts. When nanoseconds can determine whether or not you make or lose money, the physical location of your server within the data center matters. Speedy alerting and incident response have a direct and measurable impact on the PnL.
This talk will lift the lid on the beating heart of a major trading firm, and offer insights into the day-to-day operations, with a touch of “when things go wrong”.
Pedro has been a Software Engineer at Jane Street for over 7 years. He has worked on systems that directly facilitate trading of financial instruments of various shapes over his entire time there. He has spent extensive time monitoring these systems live, reacting to incidents, and improving their reliability all the while expanding the business capabilities of the systems.
author = {Pedro Flemming},
title = {Production Engineering When Trading Billions of Dollars a Day},
year = {2025},
address = {Santa Clara, CA},
publisher = {USENIX Association},
month = mar
}