2 months ago
London, United KingdomMid Level
Responsibilities
- Design and implement cloud and hybrid-cloud architectures for latency-sensitive trading workloads.
- Build and maintain systems that continuously monitor latency characteristics across distributed hybrid workloads.
- Develop orchestration tooling for provisioning cloud resources, networking configurations, and server-side processes.
- Build backend systems for collecting performance metrics and tools for querying that data.
- Collaborate with cloud engineers, software developers, Linux engineers, and network engineers to optimize performance end to end.
Requirements
- 4+ years of experience working with Amazon Web Services, including deep knowledge of EC2, VPC, Direct Connect, IAM, networking, and compute services.
- Experience using Terraform to manage cloud infrastructure and compute and networking resources such as Docker, Kubernetes, and Cisco devices.
- Experience with network fundamentals including DNS, DHCP, TCP/IP, routing, switching, HTTP, and major routing protocols.
- Strong understanding of Linux systems and the Linux network stack.
- Strong automation experience with Bash scripting and Python programming, ideally with orchestration through serverless cloud services.
- Experience working with modern AI coding agents and balancing rapid prototyping with critical review.
- Ability to implement systems with a security-first mindset and follow firm-wide security policies and best practices.
- Strong problem-solving, independent execution, communication, and cross-team collaboration skills.
- Preferred: experience building data pipelines for structured data, working with Cisco routing and switching hardware, Google Cloud Platform, Go or C++, and Linux kernel bypass techniques such as DPDK.
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.