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Platform Engineer Intern

Chicago💼 Internship💰 $175,000–$175,000🗓 2026-07-30 → 2026-09-26

Core

Maintain and improve the reliability, efficiency, scalability, and latency of DRW's advanced technology platform and underlying systems.

Role type

Platform Engineer Intern

Builds

Highly reliable and scalable trading infrastructure and services

Domain

Financial technology / High-frequency trading

Deliverable

production ML models | product features | infrastructure

Required skills

Linux/Unix administration, Kubernetes, Docker, CI/CD tools, large-scale distributed systems fundamentals, Python scripting, Bash scripting

Preferred skills

Networking, systems performance tuning, capacity planning

Responsibilities

Engage in and improve the lifecycle of services from inception to refinement; Design, write, and deliver software to improve system availability and efficiency; Manage service capacity, performance, and disaster recovery; Build automation to prevent problem recurrence; Collaborate with systems engineers, developers, and traders in cross-functional teams

Seniority

Intern

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