CareerPlan

Campus Systems Engineer (Intern)

ChicagoInternship$200k2026-07-25 → 2026-11-10

Core

Intern role supporting frontline technology teams in managing, monitoring, and improving the real-time trading environment.

Role type

Campus Systems Engineer (Intern)

Builds

Production trading environment automation and network infrastructure

Domain

Financial technology / Low-latency trading infrastructure

Required skills

Linux/UNIX OS, Python, Networking (routing, multicast, ethernet), System monitoring, Incident troubleshooting, Change control management

Preferred skills

DevOps-based software engineering, Process documentation

Technologies

Linux/UNIX, Python

Responsibilities

Monitor overall health and performance of the trading platform; Analyze and troubleshoot complex system, software, and networking infrastructure issues; Design, implement and optimize network infrastructure for proprietary low latency trading applications; Build automation to manage and improve the production trading environment; Coordinate changes and manage incidents with risk management and trading teams; Manage and assess operational risk of change control into the production environment

Seniority

Intern