Summer 2027 SRE - Observability Engineering Internship

Tradeweb • Jersey City, NJ

1d • $35 - $75 • Onsite

About The Position

This internship focuses on Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) within the Observability Engineering team, part of Institutional Fixed Income Technology. The team is responsible for monitoring Tradeweb’s trading platform by owning the pipelines and tooling that collect logs, metrics, and traces from thousands of hosts and applications across New York, London, and Tokyo environments. They transform this data into dashboards, alerts, and internal web applications crucial for real-time platform health monitoring. The role involves close collaboration with application development, platform support, infrastructure and cloud engineering, database administration, network engineering, and external observability vendors, offering broad exposure to a live trading platform's operations. Interns will be paired with a manager and mentor, given a scoped project, and are expected to implement real changes during the summer.

Requirements

• Currently pursuing an undergraduate or master’s degree in computer science, Computer Engineering or related field.
• Knowledge of modern software languages – C, C++, Java, Python.
• A background or interest in building large-scale, real-time, and distributed applications is desired.
• Willing to take ownership of their work, working both independently and within a small team.
• Detail-oriented.
• A passion for technology.
• Exceptional problem-solving skills.
• Comfort working in a Linux/command-line environment and with version control (Git).
• Strong written and verbal communication skills.

Nice To Haves

• Exposure to cloud platforms (AWS).
• Exposure to containers and Kubernetes.
• Exposure to SQL.
• Exposure to web development (React/TypeScript).

Responsibilities

• Building and maintaining data pipelines for shipping logs and metrics from production systems into the observability platform.
• Developing internal full-stack monitoring tools with React/TypeScript front ends backed by Python and Kotlin services.
• Writing infrastructure as code (Terraform) and deploying to Kubernetes on AWS through GitLab CI and ArgoCD.
• Creating and tuning dashboards and alerts for on-call engineers.
• Investigating gaps in monitoring coverage and onboarding new hosts, processes, and services.
• Analyzing telemetry data to reduce cost and improve query performance.
• Participating in code review, merge requests, and agile ceremonies.

Benefits

• Practical, hands-on experience.
• Guidance from people at all levels of the organization.
• Opportunities to build a professional network.
• Build relationships with the intern class through interactive outings and projects.
• Encouraged to explore how AI and emerging technologies can be applied within the business area.
• Opportunities to think differently, challenge existing processes, and contribute ideas.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Intern
• Education Level: Associate degree