Options Trading Systems Engineer

About DRW

DRW is a diversified trading firm with over three decades of experience combining sophisticated technology and exceptional people to operate in markets worldwide. We value autonomy and the ability to quickly pivot to capture opportunities, operating with our own capital and trading at our own risk.

Headquartered in Chicago with offices across 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 expanded into three non-traditional strategies: real estate, venture capital, and cryptoassets.

We operate with respect, curiosity, and open minds. Our team shares the belief that how we do things is as important as what we do. DRW is a place of high expectations, integrity, innovation, and a willingness to challenge consensus.

Position: Trading Systems Engineer (TSE) – Equity Options Team

We are seeking a Trading Systems Engineer (TSE) to provide high-performance, mission-critical support for our proprietary trading systems. This role involves maintaining a healthy trading environment and providing on-the-floor technical support. The TSE will also collaborate on longer-term engineering projects with traders, researchers, and developers to ensure maximum trading profitability by contributing to scalable, efficient, performant, and clean systems with well-defined workflows.

The TSE will coordinate with operations, business liaisons, and infrastructure teams to communicate with exchanges, brokers, and other external parties, ensuring a stable and efficient environment for our options trading strategies.

Responsibilities

• Work as part of a team to establish best-in-class production support, efficient software deployment, configuration processes, and proactive monitoring aimed at anticipating and avoiding issues, minimizing downtime, and enabling rapid recovery from incidents.
• Understand and potentially develop proprietary process automation and monitoring tools, leveraging third-party technologies as appropriate.
• Troubleshoot trading system production incidents caused by internal (proprietary software/systems) or external factors (markets, data feeds, telecommunication lines) in time-critical situations.
• Understand option trading in the APAC region to best support trading activities.
• Coordinate with European and US option trading teams to share best practices and ensure continuity and consistency of support in a 24x7 environment.
• Understand exchange data center layouts and hardware infrastructure to optimize setup and configuration.

Qualifications & Skills

• 1-3 years of experience in trade support, site reliability engineering, or related fields.
• Bachelor’s degree in a STEM field, ideally related to computer engineering.
• Basic networking knowledge, including TCP/IP, DNS, DHCP, and common network troubleshooting tools.
• Strong problem-solving skills with the ability to troubleshoot technical issues under pressure.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills for diverse audiences.
• Ability to thrive in high-pressure situations while collaborating with traders, developers, and engineering teams.
• Knowledge of Linux/Unix environments.
• Experience with database usage (SQL, NoSQL, Postgres).
• Proficiency with scripting languages (e.g., Python, Bash, PowerShell) for automation tasks.
• Experience with distributed systems.
• Strong understanding of modern DevOps and CI/CD practices.
• Experience using and/or building RESTful web services.
• Familiarity with web development technologies (e.g., JavaScript, React.js, Vue, CSS3).

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