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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.\nHeadquartered 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.\nWe 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.\nThe Algorithmic Trading Team is looking for a Site Reliability Engineer for our Chicago office. The SRE team is critical to the success of our trading - ensuring that our production trading systems, test environment and research pipeline are working flawlessly. \nWe’re looking for a Site Reliability Engineer who thrives at the intersection of software, trading and infrastructure - someone who creates observability that surfaces issues before they ever cause a problem, owns the response when things go wrong, and relentlessly drives automation that eliminates friction and keeps our team focused on our goals.\nWhat you will do:\nWork with software engineers and traders to provide 24/7 first line support of our trading, testing, and research environment. \nProactively monitor and identify issues before they impact trading. Define and automate observability around application SLAs and build anomaly detectors that surface problems early.\nOversee 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.\nStandardize CI/CD and operational processes across development teams to reduce friction and speed up delivery. Improve deployment scripts and release verification processes.\nPerform stress tests and verify SLAs under load. Work with application and devops engineers to design and improve support for this type of testing.\nWork closely with traders, engineers, system administrators, data centers, networking, and other shared services. \n What you will need:\nBachelor's degree in computer science or equivalent practical background.\n3-10+ years of hands-on software development or SRE Experience\nDemonstrated experience with observability tools - logging, metrics and tracing\nHands on development experience in scripting languages like Bash, Python, or Ruby\nAn 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.\nDemonstrated knowledge of network communications including comprehensive understanding of the Linux TCP-IP stack, use of multicast networking, and network protocol interactions.\nSolid diagnostic capabilities from the application layer through the network and low-level hardware.\nExperience with network capture and time synchronization.\nHigh level of ownership and accountability, reliability, and strong follow through.\nPositive AI mentality and experience with AI agents to accelerate SRE tasks.\nThe annual base salary range for this position is $130,000 to $225,000 depending on the candidate’s experience, qualifications, and relevant skill set. 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