Design low-latency trading infrastructure
Company: Optiver
Role: Software Engineer
Category: System Design
Difficulty: hard
Interview Round: Onsite
Overview: This question evaluates understanding of low-latency trading system architecture, networking and protocol trade-offs (TCP/IP vs UDP), time synchronization, fault tolerance, observability, and operational safety when splitting functionality between a colocated box and remote offices, within the System Design domain.
Read the full Optiver Software Engineer interview experience this question came from