Platform Engineer Intern Summer 2027
Akuna Capital is a proprietary trading firm specializing in options market making. It provides liquidity across global financial markets using advanced technology, quantitative research, trading strategies, and automation.
About Akuna Capital
Akuna Capital is a global proprietary trading firm headquartered in Chicago, with offices in London, Sydney, Shanghai, and Singapore. The firm provides liquidity as an options market maker across global financial markets, covering products including commodities, indexes, and cryptocurrencies. Akuna designs and develops its own low-latency trading systems, mathematical models, strategies, and infrastructure through its Technology, Trading, Quant, and Operations departments. It also offers an Options 101 course introducing industry fundamentals and options trading concepts.
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About the Role
You will join a 10-week internship program, build automated platform operations, monitor and manage systems, develop scalable hybrid-cloud infrastructure, produce tested and documented code, and take ownership of a project that you present at the end of the program.
Requirements
- Pursuing a bachelor’s, master’s, or PhD in computer science, engineering, mathematics, physics, or an equivalent technical field
- Graduating by August 2028
- Major GPA of 3.5 or above
- Legal authorization to work in the U.S. on the first day of employment
- Experience with Infrastructure as Code, Kubernetes, and AWS Cloud
- Experience with cloud computing, networking, data engineering, and security
Responsibilities
- Support and design the growth and expansion of platform offerings
- Develop the hybrid-cloud platform
- Produce clean, well-tested, and documented code
- Build automated operations
- Monitor and manage system capabilities
- Take ownership of an internship project
- Present project work and accomplishments