- Experience
- 3 – 10 years
- Pay
- $130K – $225K per year
- Education
- Bachelor's degree in computer science or equivalent practical background
- Location
- Chicago, IL
- Work mode
- On-site
- Job type
- Full-time
About this role
DRW is a diversified proprietary trading firm. This SRE role keeps the algorithmic trading team's production, test and research systems running through monitoring, automation and first-line support.
What you will do
- Provide 24/7 first-line support for trading, testing and research environments
- Define observability around SLAs and build anomaly detectors
- Maintain the test trading environment and automate routine fixes
- Standardize CI/CD and operational processes
- Run stress tests and verify SLAs under load
- Work with traders, engineers, sysadmins and networking teams
What the employer expects
- 3-10+ years in software development or SRE
- Experience with logging, metrics and tracing tools
- Scripting in Bash, Python or Ruby
- Automation-first approach
- Deep Linux TCP/IP and multicast knowledge
- Diagnostic skills from application to hardware
- Experience with network capture and time synchronization
- Experience using AI agents for SRE tasks
Benefits
- Group medical, pharmacy, dental and vision insurance
- 401k with discretionary employer match
- Short and long-term disability, life and AD&D insurance
- Health savings and flexible spending accounts
- Annual discretionary bonus
Skills
- Bash
- Python
- Ruby
- Observability
- Linux TCP/IP
- Multicast networking
- CI/CD
- Network capture
- Time synchronization
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