Site Reliability Engineer - Algorithmic Trading

About the role

The Algorithmic Trading Team at DRW is seeking a Site Reliability Engineer to join their team in Chicago. This role is critical to the success of the trading operations, ensuring that the production trading systems, test environment, and research pipeline are functioning seamlessly.

Responsibilities

• 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.

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 – 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.
• A positive AI mentality and experience with AI agents to accelerate SRE tasks.

Qualifications

• Experience with monitoring and alerting tools such as Prometheus, Grafana, ELK Stack, etc.
• Experience with container orchestration platforms like Kubernetes.
• Experience with cloud platforms like AWS, GCP, or Azure.
• Experience with DevOps practices and tools such as Ansible, Terraform, Jenkins, GitLab CI, etc.

Skills

• Strong problem-solving skills and the ability to work independently and as part of a team.
• Excellent communication and collaboration skills.
• Ability to learn new technologies and adapt to changing environments.
• Experience with distributed systems and microservices architecture.

Benefits

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.

Pay

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.

Schedule

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Benefits

In addition to the base salary, the position is eligible for an annual discretionary bonus. 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.

Application Instructions

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