Database Engineer Intern - Summer 2027

ChicagoInternship$40–$402026-10-06 → 2026-10-08

Core

Support the health, performance, and reliability of database environments through monitoring, maintenance, and troubleshooting.

Role type

Database Engineer Intern

Builds

Database environments for a proprietary trading firm

Domain

Financial services / Database Administration

Deliverable

infrastructure

Required skills

SQL, Python, Linux/Windows, relational database concepts, database platforms (PostgreSQL/SQL Server/MySQL)

Preferred skills

Bash, PowerShell, data migration, disaster recovery testing (via careerplan.io/jobs/4741016005-database-engineer-intern-summer-2027-at-dvtrading)

Responsibilities

Monitor database health and performance; perform routine maintenance (backups, restores, patching); troubleshoot database incidents; write and optimize SQL queries; assist with data migration and disaster recovery testing; automate operational tasks.

Seniority

Intern

About dvtrading

Founded 20 years ago and headquartered in Chicago, the DV Group of financial services firms has grown to more than 600 people operating throughout North America, Europe and Asia. Since spinning out of a large brokerage firm in 2016, DV Trading has rapidly scaled as an independent proprietary trading firm utilizing its own capital, trading strategies, and risk management methodologies to provide liquidity to worldwide financial markets and hedging opportunities to commodity producers and users. Now, DV group affiliates include two broker dealers, a cryptocurrency market making firm, and a