Platform Engineer

DRW is a diversified trading firm with over 3 decades of experience bringing sophisticated technology and exceptional people together to operate in markets around the world. We value autonomy and the ability to quickly pivot to capture opportunities, so we operate using our own capital and trading at our own risk.

Headquartered in Chicago with offices throughout the U.S., Canada, Europe, and Asia, we trade a variety of asset classes including Fixed Income, ETFs, Equities, FX, Commodities and Energy across all major global markets. We have also leveraged our expertise and technology to expand into three non-traditional strategies: real estate, venture capital and cryptoassets.

We operate with respect, curiosity and open minds. The people who thrive here share our belief that it’s not just what we do that matters–it's how we do it. DRW is a place of high expectations, integrity, innovation and a willingness to challenge consensus.

UP (Unified Platform) consolidates data and technologies into a comprehensive solution, accelerating time to market. Optimizing decision-making and research, our platform simplifies implementing new ideas, enhancing our competitive edge.

UP - PI (Platform Infrastructure) creates and operates tooling to make building, running, and changing UP software more scalable, failure-proof, and intelligible. They bridge infrastructure and running services and balance developer autonomy with guard-rails. The team ensures that infrastructure underlying UP services is robust, resilient, and agile to adapt to evolving demands. The team curates UP's SDLC by embedding and consulting with other teams to hone a consistent approach. UP - PI spearheads adoption of new tools and practices across the UP platform. 

Expectations:

• Pave a Golden Path for developers from design to deployment.
• Design, implement, operate and maintain build/release/run tooling for 20+ development teams.
• Enable other teams to focus on business domains.
• Influence outcomes through dozens of software teams.
• Broadcast contagious passion for developer experience.
• Consolidate diverse and redundant approaches to common problems.
• Support and teach users of the development platform you build.
• Incorporate Agentic AI tools into our SDLC and Platform.
• Make AI-Empowered iteration seamless and safe for other Software Engineers. 

Desirable Experience:

• Expertise in GitHub Actions, Team City, Concourse, or comparable CI/CD systems
• Proficiency in at least one of Python, Go, Java, Ruby
• Working Knowledge of Kubernetes
• Comfort deploying software to the cloud and on-premises
• Proven success in elevating standards for non-functional requirements like security, observability, reliability, and speed of delivery
• Informed perspective about AI Agents as development tools
• Record of accomplishment of enhancing the capabilities of other engineers and teams 

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