The Algorithmic Trading Team is looking for a
Site Reliability Engineer for our Chicago office. The SRE team is critical to the success of our trading - ensuring that our production trading systems, test environment and research pipeline are working flawlessly.
We're looking for a Site Reliability Engineer who thrives at the intersection of software, trading and infrastructure - someone who creates observability that surfaces issues before they ever cause a problem, owns the response when things go wrong, and relentlessly drives automation that eliminates friction and keeps our team focused on our goals.
What you will do:- Work with software engineers and traders to provide 24/7 first line support of our trading, testing, and research environment.
- Proactively monitor and identify issues before they impact trading. Define and automate observability around application SLAs and build anomaly detectors that surface problems early.
- Oversee and maintain our test trading environment. Keep the environment running smoothly and pursue automation of routine interventions required to maintain a stable test platform for development.
- Standardize CI/CD and operational processes across development teams to reduce friction and speed up delivery. Improve deployment scripts and release verification processes.
- Perform stress tests and verify SLAs under load. Work with application and devops engineers to design and improve support for this type of testing.
- Work closely with traders, engineers, system administrators, data centers, networking, and other shared services.
What you will need:- 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 - logging, metrics and tracing
- Hands on development experience in scripting languages like Bash, Python, or Ruby
- An automation-first approach to problem solving - you understand that manual processes don't scale, and your instinct is to eliminate them before they become a bottleneck.
- Demonstrated knowledge of network communications including comprehensive understanding of the Linux TCP-IP stack, use of multicast networking, and network protocol interactions.
- Solid diagnostic capabilities from the application layer through the network and low-level hardware.
- Experience with network capture and time synchronization.
- High level of ownership and accountability, reliability, and strong follow through.
- Positive AI mentality and experience with AI agents to accelerate SRE tasks.
The annual base salary range for this position is $130,000 to $225,000 depending on the candidate's experience, qualifications, and relevant skill set. The position is also eligible for an annual discretionary bonus. In addition, DRW offers a comprehensive suite of employee benefits including group medical, pharmacy, dental and vision insurance, 401k (with discretionary employer match), short and long-term disability, life and AD&D insurance, health savings accounts, and flexible spending accounts.
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