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Agent guide: [/agents.md](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/agents.md). --- # Senior Platform Engineer, Mid-Frequency Trading Team - **Company:** D R W Inc - **Location:** New York, NY, United States - **Experience:** Experienced - **Salary:** $175,000.0 - $250,000.0 - **Contract:** Permanent contract - **Skills:** Architectural Patterns, Automation of Tests, Code Review, Continuous Delivery, Distributed Systems, Key Management, Linux System Administration, Open Source Technology, Performance Tuning, Software Engineering, Mttr, Data Analytics - **Published:** June 20, 2026 - **Apply:** https://www.indeed.com/viewjob?jk=1730fbbfaa80ce05 ## About the Role Do you have experience in User training (technical support)?, * 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. ## Description * 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. ## Related Videos - [This Machine Ends Data Breaches](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/574-this-machine-ends-data-breaches) - [Are Code Reviews Worth It? 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