Senior Platform Engineer, Mid-Frequency Trading Team

<p><strong>DRW</strong> 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.</p> <p>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.</p> <p>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. <strong>DRW</strong> is a place of high expectations, integrity, innovation and a willingness to challenge consensus.</p> <p class="p1">We are seeking a <strong>Senior Platform Engineer</strong> to build and operate the technical platforms that empower DRW’s engineers, researchers, and trading businesses to rapidly scale, collaborate, and innovate while minimizing risk. This role focuses on massively scaled infrastructure and systems that power workflows across research, simulation, and live trading, with an emphasis on robust design, high-quality code, and operational excellence.</p> <p class="p1"><strong>Key Responsibilities:</strong></p> <ul class="ul1"> <li class="li1">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.</li> <li class="li1">Build and evolve platform frameworks and self-service tooling (libraries, templates, golden paths) that standardize provisioning, deployment, runtime operations, and developer workflows.</li> <li class="li1">Define and promote platform engineering best practices, architectural patterns, reliability standards, and technology guardrails through documentation, training sessions, and hands-on support.</li> <li class="li1">Establish and mature reliability practices: SLOs/SLIs, error budgets, capacity planning, performance baselining, resilience testing, and change management.</li> <li class="li1">Own observability foundations (metrics, logs, traces), alerting strategies, and automated diagnostics to reduce MTTR and improve system transparency.</li> <li class="li1">Participate in on-call rotations and lead incident response efforts, conducting thorough post-mortems and implementing preventive measures to improv