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Comment by apatheticonion

10 hours ago

As an Australian who was just made redundant from a role that involved this type of low level programming - I love working on these these kinds of challenges.

I'm saddened that the job market in Australia is largely React CRUD applications and that it's unlikely I will find a role that lets me leverage my niche skill set (which is also my hobby)

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ajxs  10 hours ago

Speaking as an Australian that works on React CRUD applications because there's nothing else in the market, I've been reading through this thread thinking the exact same thing.

  • apatheticonion  9 hours ago

    Google had some position open working on the kernel for ChromeOS, and Microsoft had some positions working on data center network drivers.

    I applied for both and got ghosted, haha.

    I also saw a government role as a security researcher. Involves reverse engineering, ghidra and that sort of thing. Super awesome - but the pay is extremely uncompetitive. Such a shame.

    Other than that, the most interesting roles are in finance (like HFT) - where you need to juggle memory allocations, threads and use C++ (hoping I can pitch Rust but unlikely).

    Sadly they have a reputation of having pretty rough cultures, uncompetitive salaries and it's all in-office

Pepe1vo  9 hours ago

Not sure if it's the domain you're interested in, but there are quite a few HFT firms with offices in Australia.

The one I know of (IMC trading) does a lot of low level stuff like this and is currently hiring.

  • apatheticonion  9 hours ago

    I'm actually looking at HFT companies. Hoping I find one that allows remote working - but looks like there are basically no remote roles going at the moment

  • apatheticonion  6 hours ago

    I just tried to apply for IMC, the form on their careers page is broken. Looks like that's the first boss to defeat, haha