Site Reliability Engineer - Algorithmic Trading
DRWAbout the Role
The SRE team is critical to the success of DRW's trading operations, ensuring that production trading systems, test environments, and research pipelines work flawlessly. As a Site Reliability Engineer, you will thrive at the intersection of software, trading, and infrastructure — creating observability that surfaces issues before they cause problems, owning the response when things go wrong, and driving automation that eliminates friction.
- Provide 24/7 first-line support for trading, testing, and research environments
- Proactively monitor and identify issues before they impact trading; define and automate observability around application SLAs and build anomaly detectors
- Oversee and maintain the test trading environment; automate routine interventions to maintain stability for development teams
- Standardize CI/CD and operational processes across development teams to reduce friction and accelerate delivery
- Perform stress tests and verify SLAs under load; collaborate with application and DevOps engineers on testing improvements
- Work closely with traders, engineers, system administrators, data centers, networking, and shared services teams
Requirements
- Bachelor's degree in computer science or equivalent practical background
- 3-10+ years of hands-on software development or SRE Experience
- Demonstrated experience with observability tools – logging, metrics and tracing
- Hands on development experience in scripting languages like Bash, Python, or Ruby
- An automation-first approach to problem solving – you understand that manual processes don’t scale, and your instinct is to eliminate them before they become a bottleneck
- Demonstrated knowledge of network communications including comprehensive understanding of the Linux TCP-IP stack, use of multicast networking, and network protocol interactions
- Solid diagnostic capabilities from the application layer through the network and low-level hardware
- Experience with network capture and time synchronization
- High level of ownership and accountability, reliability, and strong follow through
- Positive AI mentality and experience with AI agents to accelerate SRE tasks
What You'll Get
- $130k–$225k base salary
- Group medical, pharmacy, dental and vision insurance
- 401k (with discretionary employer match)
- Short and long-term disability
- Life and AD&D insurance
- Health savings accounts
- Flexible spending accounts