Developer Experience Engineer

Salary: £62,000 - 102,000 per year

Requirements:

• Experience in debugging and triaging complex systems.
• Experience using configuration management tooling, such as Terraform, to manage infrastructure in a repeatable manner.
• Experience managing highly available Linux systems, both on-prem and in cloud environments.
• Experience supporting containerized applications using systems such as 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.
• Strong relationship-building and communication skills.
• Strong written communication skills.
• A pragmatic approach to balancing present needs with future optimizations.
• Comfort handling tasks ranging from troubleshooting low-level OS issues to architecting robust artifact storage solutions.
• An intrinsic motivation to learn, curiosity, dedication, and a collaborative spirit.
• Demonstrated experience building high-quality solutions and owning them throughout their entire lifecycle.
• A growth mindset and a bias for action.
• Prior experience building tools that measurably improve developer experience and productivity.

Responsibilities:

• Collaborate with leaders, trading teams, and developers to act as a force multiplier for the engineering population across the company.
• Work within a US- and UK-based team with product and technical ownership of services provided by the Developer Experience team, including source control, build artifact repositories, AI-powered development tools, and other software development and delivery tools.
• Participate in a scheduled support rotation during UK business hours to help internal engineering teams get the most out of our developer platforms.
• Diagnose complex CI workflows, manage central infrastructure in Kubernetes, and ensure our tools are fully leveraged by internal developers.
• Investigate and resolve intricate systems or build issues during support rotations.
• Improve service reliability, performance, and observability of firm-wide critical infrastructure and tooling.
• Work in a hybrid infrastructure environment, both 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.
• Navigate novel build challenges, refine observability and alerting systems for firm-wide critical services, and build great developer workflows.

Technologies:

• AI
• ArgoCD
• CI/CD
• Cloud
• Docker
• Helm
• Support
• Java
• Kubernetes
• Linux
• Python
• Terraform
• DevOps

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We are DRW, a diversified trading firm with over three decades of experience bringing sophisticated technology and exceptional people together to operate in markets around the world. We value autonomy and the ability to quickly pivot to capture opportunities, and we operate using our own capital and trading at our own risk. Headquartered in Chicago, we have offices throughout the U.S., Canada, Europe, and Asia, and we trade a variety of asset classes including Fixed Income, ETFs, Equities, FX, Commodities, and Energy across all major global markets. We have also leveraged our expertise and technology to expand into real estate, venture capital, and cryptoassets. We operate with respect, curiosity, and open minds, and we value high expectations, integrity, innovation, and a willingness to challenge consensus. The Developer Experience team provides mission-critical services to our wider software engineering community, offering end-to-end service ownership, strategic development work, and internal support. This role is based in our London office with a hybrid schedule of three days per week in the office.

last updated 34 week of 2026