Platform Engineer Intern, Summer 2027
About The Position
Akuna Capital is an innovative trading firm with a strong focus on collaboration, cutting-edge technology, data driven solutions, and automation. We specialize in providing liquidity as an options market maker, meaning we are committed to providing competitive quotes that we are willing to both buy and sell. To do this successfully, we design and implement our own low latency technologies, trading strategies, and mathematical models. Our Founding Partners first conceptualized Akuna in their hometown of Sydney. They opened the firm’s first office in 2011 in the heart of the derivatives industry and the options capital of the world – Chicago. Today, Akuna is proud to operate from additional offices in Sydney, Shanghai, Singapore, and London. We are seeking Platform Engineer Interns to join our innovative and growing technology team for our 10-week Akunacademy internship program. You will work within the Platform Engineering Team, gaining expertise through building highly automated operations while monitoring and managing the operational capabilities of systems at Akuna. Each intern takes full ownership of their project, and at the end of the program, has the opportunity to present their work and accomplishments. In this role, you will: Support and design the ongoing growth, design, and expansion of our Platform offerings to meet the needs of our internal stakeholders with scalable, reliable, and highly available systems Work with our steam aligned and partner platform teams to develop our hybrid cloud platform Produce clean, well-tested, and documented code with a clear design to support production infrastructure and systems Challenge the status quo and help push our organization forward, as we grow beyond the limits of our current tech stack
Requirements
- Pursuing a bachelor’s, master’s, or Ph.D. in a technical field (computer science/engineering, math, physics, or equivalent)
- Graduating by August 2027
- Major GPA of 3.5 or above
- Legal authorization to work in the U.S. is required on the first day of employment including F-1 students using OPT or STEM
Nice To Haves
- Experience with Infrastructure as Code (IaC), Kubernetes, and AWS Cloud
- Experience with cloud computing, networking, data engineering and security
- Ability to react quickly and accurately to rapidly changing market conditions, including the ability to quickly and accurately respond and/or solve math and coding problems, is an essential function of the role
Responsibilities
- Support and design the ongoing growth, design, and expansion of our Platform offerings to meet the needs of our internal stakeholders with scalable, reliable, and highly available systems
- Work with our steam aligned and partner platform teams to develop our hybrid cloud platform
- Produce clean, well-tested, and documented code with a clear design to support production infrastructure and systems
- Challenge the status quo and help push our organization forward, as we grow beyond the limits of our current tech stack
Benefits
- Training and continuous education are provided for all engineers to ensure they can build the requisite technical and non-technical skillset for success.
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What This Job Offers
Career Level
Intern
Education Level
Ph.D. or professional degree
