Cloud Performance Engineer

As a Cloud Performance Engineer at DRW, you work with technology teams across the firm to build high-performance cloud solutions for trading workloads. You join the Cloud Performance Team alongside cloud engineers, software developers, and Linux and network engineers to optimize performance end to end.

What you'll do

• Design and implement cloud and hybrid cloud architectures for latency-sensitive trading workloads
• Build and maintain systems that continuously monitor the latency characteristics of distributed hybrid workloads
• Work on orchestration tooling for provisioning cloud resources, networking configurations, and server-side processes
• Build backend systems for collecting performance metrics and tooling to query them

What you bring

• 4+ years of experience working with Amazon Web Services (AWS), with deep knowledge of networking and compute services such as EC2, VPC, and Direct Connect, plus a good overview of the AWS service landscape and core concepts like IAM
• Experience using Infrastructure-as-Code tools such as Terraform to manage cloud infrastructure and a broad set of compute and networking resources including Docker, Kubernetes, and Cisco devices
• Knowledge of network fundamentals including DNS, DHCP, TCP/IP, routing, switching, and HTTP, as well as major routing protocols
• A solid understanding of Linux systems and the Linux network stack
• Strong background in automation via Bash scripting and Python programming, ideally in conjunction with orchestration through serverless cloud services
• Demonstrable experience working with modern AI coding agents, balancing rapid prototyping with critical review to ensure simplicity and quality of deliverables
• Ability to implement systems with a security-first mindset, adhering to firm-wide security policies and best practice implementations
• Strong problem-solving skills and the ability to independently drive work to completion
• Strong communication skills and the ability to collaborate across teams

Nice to have

• Experience building data pipelines for centralizing structured data
• Experience working with Cisco routing and switching hardware
• Experience working with Google Cloud Platform
• Experience programming in compiled languages such as Go or C++
• Experience with Linux kernel bypass techniques such as DPDK

About DRW

DRW is a diversified trading firm with over 3 decades of experience, headquartered in Chicago with offices throughout the U.S., Canada, Europe, and Asia. The firm trades a variety of asset classes including Fixed Income, ETFs, Equities, FX, Commodities and Energy across major global markets, and has expanded into real estate, venture capital, and cryptoassets.