Software Developer (Data Analytics)

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DRW is a diversified trading firm with over 3 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, so we operate using our own capital and trading at our own risk. Headquartered in Chicago with offices throughout the U.S., Canada, Europe, and Asia, 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 three non‑traditional strategies : real estate, venture capital and cryptoassets. We operate with respect, curiosity and open minds. The people who thrive here share our belief that it’s not just what we do that matters–it's how we do it. DRW is a place of high expectations, integrity, innovation and a willingness to challenge consensus.

We’re looking for a curious problem‑solver who enjoys exploring ambiguous data and turning puzzles into answers. You’ll lead open‑ended investigations of HTTP traffic : cleaning and transforming logs, probing and visualizing patterns, formulating and testing hypotheses, and identifying root causes in the clients, the network, or servers. Deliverables include interactive visualizations and compact, well‑engineered Python scripts that speed up testing and troubleshooting.

How You Will Make An Impact

• Lead open‑ended investigations into HTTP request telemetry to find hidden patterns, anomalies, and regressions.
• Spin up reproducible analyses quickly (Python / Jupyter, pandas, numpy) and distill findings into concise notes teams can act on.
• Use CS fundamentals and networking knowledge (TCP / IP, HTTP semantics, TLS, CDN / proxy effects) to separate client, network, and server causes.
• Build small, robust CLIs / scripts to replay requests, synthesize test traffic, normalize logs, perform lightweight tests, or compute streaming metrics.
• Implement pragmatic data‑processing approaches for large logs (chunking, Parquet, streaming).
• Deliver interactive visualizations and actionable recommendations that our developers can use for triage.

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