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Our mission is to increase the freedom of money and financial access for people around the world.\nAbout the Role\nWe are looking for highly motivated interns to join our engineering team and work on **high-performance, low-latency systems** that operate under demanding throughput and latency requirements.\nYou will work closely with experienced engineers on performance-critical infrastructure, including high-throughput messaging, concurrent processing pipelines, networking, memory optimization, and latency-sensitive systems.\nThis internship is designed for candidates with strong fundamentals and exceptional learning potential. **Prior experience in low-latency or trading systems is not required.** We care more about your ability to understand complex systems, reason from first principles, and systematically make software faster and more efficient.\nResponsibilities\nDesign and optimize high-throughput, low-latency systems, including messaging infrastructure, concurrent processing pipelines, and networking.\nIdentify and resolve performance bottlenecks across CPU, memory, operating systems, networking, and concurrency.\nOptimize memory allocation, data structures, serialization, and multithreaded processing to improve system efficiency.\nExplore advanced optimization techniques, including lock-free architectures, CPU affinity, and memory management.\nBuild benchmarking and profiling tools to measure throughput, CPU efficiency, and latency (p50/p99/p999).\nCollaborate with experienced engineers to investigate complex system performance issues and deliver measurable improvements.\nRequirements\nCurrently pursuing or recently completed a Master's, MPhil, or PhD in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Computer Systems, or a related technical field.\nStrong foundation in data structures, algorithms, operating systems, networking, memory management, and concurrency.\nProficiency in at least one programming language, preferably C++, Rust, or Java.\nStrong analytical and problem-solving skills, with the ability to break complex problems into measurable hypotheses.\nInterest in understanding how software interacts with hardware and how system performance can be improved.\nStrong learning agility, curiosity, and the ability to quickly understand unfamiliar systems and technologies.\nPrior experience in low-latency or trading systems is not required.\nNice to Have\nExperience with high-performance computing, low-latency systems, multithreaded programming, or distributed systems.\nKnowledge of lock-free data structures, CPU caches, NUMA, SIMD, memory pools, or CPU affinity.\nExperience with Linux systems programming, network programming, RDMA, DPDK, io_uring, or eBPF.\nFamiliarity with profiling, benchmarking, and performance analysis tools, such as perf or FlameGraph.\nExposure to compiler/runtime optimization, database or storage internals, or high-performance serialization.\nContributions to open-source systems projects or relevant academic research.\nStrong competitive programming background, such as ICPC, IOI, NOI, CCPC, or Codeforces.\nWhy Binance\nShape the future of finance \nCollaborate with world-class talent in a user-centric global organization with a flat structure\nTackle challenging projects in a fast-paced and innovative enviornment with autonomy\nThrive in a results-driven workplace with opportunities for career growth and continuous learning\nCompetitive salary and company benefits\nRemote-first, work-from-home arrangement (may vary depending on the nature of the role and team)\nBinance is committed to being an equal opportunity employer. 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