Platform Engineer

Posted 10 Days Ago
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Chicago, IL
Mid level
Fintech • Financial Services
Our people make us exceptional.
The Role
As a Platform Engineer at DRW, you'll design, implement, and maintain tooling for development teams, ensuring a robust and scalable infrastructure that supports their needs. You'll mentor users, enhance developer experience, and work on consolidating approaches across teams to improve efficiency and effectiveness in deployment practices.
Summary Generated by Built In

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. 

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
  • Record of accomplishment of enhancing the capabilities of other engineers and teams 


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Top Skills

Go
Java
Python
Ruby

What the Team is Saying

Elaine
Omar
Kumbi
Carissa
Alex
Brawnski
Michelle
The Company
HQ: Chicago, IL
1,825 Employees
Hybrid Workplace
Year Founded: 1992

What We Do

A diversified trading firm that utilizes our own capital and trades at our own risk. We bring sophisticated technology and exceptional people together to solve complex problems in markets around the world and across many asset classes. We are motivated to compete at the highest level and commit to operate with respect, curiosity and an open mind.

Why Work With Us

The DRW approach is simple: tenure, experience and titles don’t matter as much as ideas, execution and results. We believe in creating opportunity to take on more complex problems, more interesting projects and more specialized skills. It’s a results-driven environment where friendships grow and respect is the norm.

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