DRW · 6 hours ago
Developer Experience Engineer
Chicago, IL
Full-time
Hybrid
Mid Level
$130K/yr - $175K/yr
3+ years expDRW is a diversified trading firm with over 3 decades of experience in sophisticated technology and exceptional people. The Developer Experience Engineer will collaborate with various teams to enhance developer workflows, support internal engineering teams, and improve service reliability and performance across critical infrastructure.
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Responsibilities
Collaborate with leaders, trading teams, and developers to act as a force multiplier of the engineering population across the company
Work within a team with product and technical ownership of services provided by the Developer Experience team, encompassing source control, build artifact repositories, AI-powered development tools, and other tools related to software development and delivery
Participate in a scheduled support rotation to help internal engineering teams get the most out of our developer platforms. This includes diagnosing complex CI workflows, managing central infrastructure in Kubernetes, and ensuring our tools are fully leveraged by internal developers
Investigate and resolve intricate systems or build issues during support rotations, building valuable relationships with other DRW development teams
Improve service reliability, performance, and observability of firm-wide critical infrastructure and tooling
Work in a hybrid infrastructure environment, cloud and on-prem, using infra-as-code patterns to reliably manage and scale the services we own
Educate users on our tools, conduct end-user demonstrations as needed, and maintain high quality self-service documentation
Qualification
Required
You have strong relationship building and communication skills and the drive to positively influence all areas of the organization's software delivery life cycle (SDLC)
You have stellar written communication, ensuring your messages resonate widely
You embrace pragmatism, balancing present needs with future optimizations, ensuring all solutions are sustainable for the long term
You are a problem solver that is comfortable handling tasks ranging from troubleshooting low-level OS issues to architecting robust artifact storage solutions
Continuous Integration and Delivery excite you, and you strive to avoid Continuous Irritation and Disappointment
You are intrinsically motivated, curious, dedicated to learning, and possess a collaborative spirit
Experience in debugging and triaging complex systems
Experience using configuration management tooling, like Terraform to manage infrastructure in a repeatable manner
Experience managing highly available Linux systems, both on-prem and in cloud environments
Experience in supporting containerized applications using systems like Kubernetes, Docker, FluxCD or ArgoCD, and Helm
Experience providing direct support to internal engineers and demonstrating customer empathy as part of a scheduled business hours-only rotation
Experience developing and maintaining CI/CD pipelines
3-5 years of development experience and proficiency in at least one high-level programming language, such as Go, Python, or Java
Preferred
Demonstrated experience with building high-quality solutions and owning them throughout their entire Lifecyle
A growth mindset and a bias for action
You have previously built tools for measurably improving developer experience and productivity
Benefits
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
Flexible spending accounts
Company
DRW
DRW is a diversified trading firm that combines technology, research, and risk management to capture trading and investment opportunities.
1001-5000 employees
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