Platform Engineer Intern Summer 2027
Akuna Capital is a proprietary trading firm specializing in options market making.
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
Join a 10-week internship program focused on automated platform operations, system monitoring and management, scalable hybrid-cloud infrastructure, tested and documented code, and ownership of a project presented 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, including F-1 students using OPT or STEM
- Experience with Infrastructure as Code, Kubernetes, and AWS Cloud
- Experience with cloud computing, networking, data engineering, and security
- Ability to respond quickly and accurately to changing market conditions and solve math and coding problems
- Resume submitted in PDF format
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
Benefits
- 10-week Akunacademy internship program
- Project ownership and opportunity to present work and accomplishments
- Training and continuous education for engineers
- Opportunities for individual growth and ownership