2 months ago
Base Salary
$130k - $225k/yr
Responsibilities
- Provide 24/7 first-line support for trading, testing, and research environments.
- Monitor systems and build observability, including logging, metrics, tracing, application SLA monitoring, and anomaly detection.
- Maintain the test trading environment and automate routine interventions for platform stability.
- Standardize CI/CD and operational processes, improve deployment scripts, and strengthen release verification.
- Perform stress tests and verify SLAs under load with application and DevOps engineers.
- Collaborate with traders, engineers, system administrators, data centers, networking teams, and shared services.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in computer science or equivalent practical background.
- 3–10+ years of hands-on software development or SRE experience.
- Demonstrated experience with observability tools for logging, metrics, and tracing.
- Hands-on scripting experience with Bash, Python, or Ruby.
- Knowledge of Linux TCP/IP, multicast networking, and network protocol interactions.
- Diagnostic capabilities spanning the application layer, network, and low-level hardware.
- Experience with network capture and time synchronization.
- An automation-first approach, strong ownership, accountability, reliability, and follow-through.
- Positive AI mentality and experience using AI agents to accelerate SRE tasks.
Benefits
- Chicago office position.
- Comprehensive medical, pharmacy, dental, and vision insurance.
- 401(k) with discretionary employer match.
- Short- and long-term disability insurance, life insurance, and AD&D insurance.
- Health savings accounts and flexible spending accounts.
- Eligibility for an annual discretionary bonus.
About DRW
DRW is a privately held proprietary trading firm that uses its own capital to trade and invest across global markets and asset classes, powered by technology and research. Founded in 1992 and headquartered in Chicago, it develops trading systems for strategies ranging from seconds to years and manages its own risk rather than external client money. The firm operates internationally from multiple offices.