Senior Platform Engineer, Mid-Frequency Trading Team

• →Design, build, and maintain scalable, distributed infrastructure platforms across on-premises and public cloud environments that enable engineers and data scientists to deploy and operate workloads efficiently.
• →Build and evolve platform frameworks and self-service tooling (libraries, templates, golden paths) that standardize provisioning, deployment, runtime operations, and developer workflows.
• →Define and promote platform engineering best practices, architectural patterns, reliability standards, and technology guardrails through documentation, training sessions, and hands-on support.
• →Establish and mature reliability practices: SLOs/SLIs, error budgets, capacity planning, performance baselining, resilience testing, and change management.
• →Own observability foundations (metrics, logs, traces), alerting strategies, and automated diagnostics to reduce MTTR and improve system transparency.
• →Participate in on-call rotations and lead incident response efforts, conducting thorough post-mortems and implementing preventive measures to improve system resilience.
• →Evaluate and integrate new technologies (including GenAI and open-source tools) into the platform ecosystem, conducting proof-of-concepts and making data-driven recommendations for adoption.
• →Lead cross-functional platform initiatives from conception to delivery, coordinating with multiple engineering teams, product managers, and collaborators to define requirements, establish timelines, and ensure successful adoption.
• →Partner with security and risk stakeholders to implement secure-by-default controls (identity/access, secrets management, auditability) aligned with DRW’s trading and operational requirements.
• →Mentor engineers through design reviews, code reviews, and technical guidance; raise engineering quality and shared ownership across teams.

• 7+ years of professional software engineering experience, including platform engineering, infrastructure engineering, or SRE responsibilities.
• Strong experience building and operating distributed systems in Linux environments; comfortable troubleshooting performance, networking, and reliability issues.
• Experience with cloud platforms and hybrid/on-prem architectures; ability to design for scale, resilience, and cost efficiency.
• Proven track record owning production services: on-call, incident response, post-mortems, and durable reliability improvements.
• Experience implementing CI/CD, automated testing, and release engineering practices for platform and infrastructure code.
• Strong system design skills and the ability to lead technical decisions across teams.
• Excellent communication and cross-functional leadership skills in fast-paced, high-availability environments.

The annual base salary range for this position is $175,000 to $250,000 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.