Platform Engineer Intern

DRW is recruiting for Platform Engineer Intern in Chicago. This listing was last seen on the firm's own job board on August 22, 2026.

A broad principal trading firm covering rates, energy, crypto, and real estate, so desk fit matters as much as the screen.

What sets DRW apart: Widest asset coverage of any firm on this list, including physical commodities. Desk assignment happens late, so you interview for the firm rather than a team. Serious crypto and digital assets business through Cumberland.

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The role, as DRW describes it, published on July 30, 2026 and reproduced from their job board:

Our formula for success is to hire exceptional people, encourage their ideas and reward their results.

As a Platform Engineer Intern, you will be part of our advanced technology team focused on maintaining and improving the reliability and efficiency of our platform, including underlying systems at DRW. The platform engineer intern will work under the guidance of senior technologists to ensure our systems are highly reliable and scalable during your ten weeks. While your days will have you immersed in complex projects directly driving DRW’s progress, your evenings will be spent exploring the city with organized social events to truly discover what it is like to live and work in Chicago.

How you will make an impact…

Engage in and improve the lifecycle of services—from inception and design, through deployment, operation, and refinement.

Design, write, and deliver software to improve the availability, scalability, latency, and efficiency of DRW’s services.

Manage service capacity, performance, and disaster recovery.

Identify innovative solutions to complex problems and advocate for their implementation to your team by communicating your ideas in a clear and concise manner.

Solve problems related to mission critical services and build automation to prevent problem recurrence.

Collaborate with other systems and infrastructure engineers, software developers, quantitative traders, and researchers as well as business analysts in cross-functional team environments.

What you bring to the team…

Are pursuing a bachelor’s, master’s, or PhD in computer science, electrical engineering, computer engineering, physics, mathematics or any related science discipline and have an expected graduation date between December 2027 and June 2028.