SiteReliabilityEngineer

DRW is a diversified trading firm with over 3 decades of experience bringing sophisticated technology and exceptional people together to operate in markets around the world. We value autonomy and the ability to quickly pivot to capture opportunities, so we operate using our own capital and trading at our own risk. Headquartered in Chicago with offices throughout the U.S., Canada, Europe, and Asia, we trade a variety of asset classes including Fixed Income, ETFs, Equities, FX, Commodities and Energy across all major global markets. We have also leveraged our expertise and technology to expand into three non-traditional strategies: real estate, venture capital and cryptoassets. We operate with respect, curiosity and open minds. The people who thrive here share our belief that it’s not just what we do that matters–it's how we do it. DRW is a place of high expectations, integrity, innovation and a willingness to challenge consensus. 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 rou