Site Reliability Engineer - Algorithmic Trading

What you will do

• Work with software engineers and traders to provide 24/7 first line support of our trading, testing, and research environment.
• Proactively monitor and identify issues before they impact trading. Define and automate observability around application SLAs and build anomaly detectors that surface problems early.
• Oversee and maintain our test trading environment. Keep the environment running smoothly and pursue automation of routine interventions required to maintain a stable test platform for development.
• Standardize CI/CD and operational processes across development teams to reduce friction and speed up delivery. Improve deployment scripts and release verification processes.
• Perform stress tests and verify SLAs under load. Work with application and devops engineers to design and improve support for this type of testing.
• Work closely with traders, engineers, system administrators, data centers, networking, and other shared services.

What you will need

• Bachelor's degree in computer science or equivalent practical background.
• 3-10+ years of hands-on software development or SRE Experience
• Demonstrated experience with observability tools - logging, metrics and tracing
• Hands on development experience in scripting languages like Bash, Python, or Ruby
• An automation-first approach to problem solving - you understand that manual processes don't scale, and your instinct is to eliminate them before they become a bottleneck.
• Demonstrated knowledge of network communications including comprehensive understanding of the Linux TCP-IP stack, use of multicast networking, and network protocol interactions.
• Solid diagnostic capabilities from the application layer through the network and low-level hardware.
• Experience with network capture and time synchronization.
• High level of ownership and accountability, reliability, and strong follow through.
• Positive AI mentality and experience with AI agents to accelerate SRE tasks.

Pay and benefits

The annual base salary range for this position is $130,000 to $225,000 depending on the candidate's experience, qualifications, and relevant skill set. The position is also eligible for an annual discretionary bonus. In addition, DRW offers a comprehensive suite of employee benefits including group medical, pharmacy, dental and vision insurance, 401k (with discretionary employer match), short and long-term disability, life and AD&D insurance, health savings accounts, and flexible spending accounts.