Developer Experience Engineer
DRW is a Chicago-based diversified trading firm that uses technology, quantitative research, and risk management to provide liquidity across traditional and digital-asset markets.
About DRW
Founded by Don Wilson in 1992, DRW trades for its own account across global markets and operates strategies in cryptoassets, venture capital, real estate, carbon markets, and public-equity investments. Its crypto business, Cumberland, has provided institutional crypto-asset liquidity since 2014.
Skills
Candidate Availability
Required and preferred rules are kept separate and reflect the wording in the original posting.
About the Role
Own and develop source control, build artifact repositories, AI-powered development tools, and other software delivery services. Support internal engineering teams, diagnose complex CI workflows, manage Kubernetes infrastructure, improve reliability and observability, manage hybrid cloud and on-premises infrastructure with infrastructure-as-code, educate users, and maintain self-service documentation.
Requirements
- Experience debugging and triaging complex systems
- Experience with configuration management tooling such as Terraform
- Experience managing highly available Linux systems in on-premises and cloud environments
- Experience supporting containerized applications with Kubernetes, Docker, FluxCD, ArgoCD, or Helm
- Experience supporting internal engineers and demonstrating customer empathy
- Experience developing and maintaining CI/CD pipelines
- 3-5 years of development experience
- Proficiency in at least one high-level programming language such as Go, Python, or Java
Responsibilities
- Collaborate with leaders, trading teams, and developers to improve engineering capabilities
- Own source control, build artifact repositories, AI-powered development tools, and software delivery tools
- Participate in scheduled support rotations for internal engineering teams
- Diagnose complex CI workflows and manage Kubernetes infrastructure
- Investigate and resolve systems and build issues
- Improve reliability, performance, and observability of critical infrastructure and tooling
- Manage hybrid cloud and on-premises infrastructure using infrastructure-as-code
- Educate users and conduct demonstrations
- Maintain self-service documentation
