Binance Accelerator Program - System Performance Engineer (AI)

Binance is a leading global blockchain ecosystem behind the world’s largest cryptocurrency exchange by trading volume and registered users. We are trusted by 300+ million people in 100+ countries for our industry-leading security, user fund transparency, trading engine speed, deep liquidity, and an unmatched portfolio of digital-asset products. Binance offerings range from trading and finance to education, research, payments, institutional services, and more. Our mission is to increase the freedom of money and financial access for people around the world.

We 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.

You will work closely with experienced engineers on performance-critical infrastructure, including high-throughput messaging, concurrent processing pipelines, networking, memory optimization, and latency-sensitive systems.

This 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.

• 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/runtime optimization, database or storage internals, or high-performance serialization.

• Contributions to open-source systems projects or relevant academic research.

• Strong competitive programming background, such as ICPC, IOI, NOI, CCPC, or Codeforces.

Why Binance

• Shape the future of finance 
• Collaborate with world-class talent in a user-centric global organization with a flat structure
• Tackle challenging projects in a fast-paced and innovative enviornment with autonomy
• Thrive in a results-driven workplace with opportunities for career growth and continuous learning
• Competitive salary and company benefits
• Remote-first, work-from-home arrangement (may vary depending on the nature of the role and team)

Binance is committed to being an equal opportunity employer. We believe that having a diverse workforce is fundamental to our success.

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We may use artificial intelligence (AI) tools to support parts of the hiring process, such as reviewing applications, analyzing resumes, or assessing responses and identifying potential inconsistencies or verification signals in application materials based on available information. These tools assist our recruitment team but do not replace human judgment. Final hiring decisions are ultimately made by humans. If you would like more information about how your data is processed, please contact us.