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Site Reliability Engineer - Algorithmic Trading

3 hours agoSalary: 130K - 225KChicagoOnsiteDevopsJobs by DRW
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DRW

Global principal trading firm; parent of Cumberland (crypto market maker).

Chicago, Illinois, USA
About DRW

DRW (drw.com) is a Chicago-based global principal trading firm across asset classes; its crypto arm is Cumberland, a leading digital-asset market maker.

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Candidate Availability

Required and preferred rules are kept separate and reflect the wording in the original posting.

About the Role

You will provide first-line support for trading, testing, and research environments, monitor systems, automate observability and anomaly detection, maintain the test trading environment, standardize CI/CD and operational processes, improve deployment and release verification, perform stress tests, verify SLAs, and collaborate across engineering, trading, networking, and infrastructure functions.

Requirements

  • Bachelor's degree in computer science or equivalent practical background
  • 3-10+ years of hands-on software development or SRE experience
  • Experience with logging, metrics, and tracing tools
  • Development experience with Bash, Python, or Ruby
  • Knowledge of network communications and the Linux TCP-IP stack
  • Knowledge of multicast networking and network protocol interactions
  • Diagnostic capabilities from the application layer through networking and low-level hardware
  • Experience with network capture and time synchronization
  • Experience with AI agents

Responsibilities

  • Provide 24/7 first-line support for trading, testing, and research environments
  • Monitor systems and identify issues before they impact trading
  • Define and automate observability around application SLAs
  • Build anomaly detectors that surface problems early
  • Maintain the test trading environment
  • Automate routine interventions for the test platform
  • Standardize CI/CD and operational processes
  • Improve deployment scripts and release verification processes
  • Perform stress tests and verify SLAs under load
  • Collaborate with traders, engineers, system administrators, data centers, networking, and shared services

Benefits

  • Annual discretionary bonus
  • Group medical insurance
  • Pharmacy insurance
  • Dental insurance
  • Vision insurance
  • 401k with discretionary employer match
  • Short-term disability insurance
  • Long-term disability insurance
  • Life insurance
  • AD&D insurance
  • Health savings accounts
  • Flexible spending accounts