Options Trading Systems Engineer
DRWAbout the Role
The Equity Options team at DRW is looking for a Trading Systems Engineer to provide high performance, mission critical support for proprietary trading systems. The role maintains a healthy trading environment and provides on-the-floor technical support while working on longer-term engineering projects collaborating with traders, researchers and developers. You will coordinate with operations, business liaisons and infrastructure teams to communicate with exchanges, brokers and external parties to ensure a stable and efficient environment for option trading strategies.
- Establish best-in-class production support, efficient software deployment, configuration processes and proactive monitoring
- Develop and maintain proprietary process automation and monitoring tools
- Troubleshoot trading system production incidents in time-critical situations
- Coordinate efforts across European and US Option trading teams in a 24x7 environment
- Optimize exchange data center layout and hardware infrastructure setup
Requirements
- 1-3 years working trade support, site reliability engineering or related fields
- Bachelor’s degree in STEM field, ideally computer engineering related
- Basic networking knowledge, including TCP/IP, DNS, DHCP and common network troubleshooting tools
- Strong problem-solving skills and the ability to troubleshoot technical issues under pressure
- Excellent communication skills, both written and verbal for audiences of varying backgrounds
- Thrives in high-pressure situations while working alongside traders, developers and other engineering teams
- Knowledge of Linux/Unix environments
- Knowledge of database usage (SQL, NoSQL, Postgres)
- Experience with scripting languages (e.g. Python, Bash, PowerShell) for automation tasks
- Experience with Distributed Systems
- Strong understanding of modern DevOps and CICD
- Experience with using and/or building Restful web services
- Experience with web development technologies (e.g., Javascript React.js, Vue and CSS3)