Observability Engineering Internship

About the Role

• Summer 2027 SRE - Observability Engineering Internship at Tradeweb.
• Gain practical, hands-on experience working with technologists and business experts.
• Program combines traditional classroom settings with project-based work.
• Guidance from people at all levels of the organization to build a professional network.
• Work within the Reliability & Observability Engineering team, part of Institutional Fixed Income Technology.
• This team is responsible for monitoring Tradeweb’s trading platform.

Key Responsibilities

• Building and maintaining data pipelines for 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.
• Investigating gaps in monitoring coverage, onboarding unmonitored hosts, processes, and services.
• Analyzing telemetry data to reduce cost and improve query performance.
• Participating in code review, merge requests, and agile ceremonies.
• You will be paired with a manager and mentor, given a scoped project, and expected to ship real changes.

Requirements & Tech Stack

• Linux/command-line environment.
• Version control (Git).
• Python.
• Kotlin.
• React/TypeScript.
• Terraform.
• Kubernetes.
• AWS.
• GitLab CI.
• ArgoCD.

Qualifications

• Currently pursuing an undergraduate or master’s degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or a 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.
• Willingness to take ownership of work, working both independently and within a small team.
• Detail-oriented.
• A passion for technology.
• Exceptional problem-solving skills.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills.
• Exposure to any of the following is a plus, but not required: cloud platforms (AWS), containers and Kubernetes, SQL, or web development (React/TypeScript).