Site Reliability Engineer – Summer Internship (Rolling Intake)

About Citadel Securities

Citadel Securities is a leading global market maker and next-generation capital markets firm. They provide liquidity for institutional and retail investors, enabling the trade of a wide range of equity and fixed-income products under any market conditions.

Your role

Citadel’s Site Reliability Engineers (SRE) are Software Engineers (SWE), who work to incorporate best practices from SRE to finance, bringing innovation and cutting-edge technology to reduce complexity and improve performance. SREs are responsible for taking applications to production, providing early support for applications in development, and ensuring crisp application function throughout their lifetime. SREs will have a deep understanding of how applications work and are able to rapidly iterate software to maximize production quality.

Individuals within Citadel’s SRE teams will work closely with the development teams on automation, and refactoring, and there will be movement between the SRE team and Dev teams to allow for maximum cross-pollination. The SREs are also involved in designing and deploying new generations of production applications and software infrastructure.

This role will primarily involve working with a cohesive team of engineers, developers, and businesses, to build world-class systems and the necessary tools to maintain and constantly improve. The position calls for someone with a mind to innovate, automate, and constantly use measurements and statistics to improve. Members of the Citadel SRE team have software development backgrounds and a range of interests including but not limited to chaos engineering, production engineering, networking, UNIX internals and large-scale systems design.

Responsibilities:

• Ensure the reliability, availability, and performance of applications
• Own the automation of repetitive tasks and resolution of systematic issues
• Be a source of both ideas for improving applications and a part of the team that implements those ideas
• Understand the end-to-end flow across the various applications at both a technology and business level
• Identify and deliver green-field engineering solutions for issues based on root-cause analysis
• Own incident management and resolution
• Lead by evangelizing the SRE mindset to other teams
• Provide support and ensure applications are production-ready

Training & development

During your time as an intern, you’ll tackle meaningful work and develop ideas that they’ll continue to use at the firm. You’ll have the opportunity to implement new insights into your project work each day and gain a deeper understanding of finance and markets. The support you receive here can help you launch an outstanding career. Learning sessions, in-depth training and on-the-job apprenticeship will take your skills to the next level. You’ll be paired with a dedicated mentor to help you deliver your best. Your mentor can answer complex technical questions and introduce you to key people. Many mentors were previously interns here.

Compensation & benefits

Citadel Securities provides the benefits you might expect from a leading financial firm—and then goes above and beyond. Depending on location, personal and health benefits can include access to a concierge healthcare team, a health advocate and health counselling, fitness subsidies and wellness initiatives mindfulness programs and telehealth. On the financial side, benefits can include tuition reimbursement, student loan refinancing, 401(k) match and identity theft protection. Their offices offer breakfast, lunch and snacks to keep you working at peak performance.

Check out this video to see their office in Sydney,

Company culture

Citadel Securities Australia values integrity, ensuring actions are taken with accountability and compliance. The company fosters a culture of winning through continuous improvement and meritocracy, rewarding team members based on results. They emphasize learning, collaboration, and mutual success, hiring extraordinary individuals to build strong, innovative teams that empower clients and partners.

About you

Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science or a related field
• Strong background in computer science fundamentals, data structures, algorithms, distributed systems
• Fully proficient in at least one modern structured programming language. Python or Java preferred
• Comfortable with a range of current software development tools and practices (testing, source control, build systems, CI/CD etc)
• SQL and database experience are a strong plus.
• Web UI experience (javascript, CSS, React) is a plus.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills
• Strong entrepreneurial spirit
• A passion for learning, adapting to changing requirements and technology and inventing new approaches to hard problems

Source

The following sources were used in researching this page:

• citadelsecurities.com/careers/
• citadelsecurities.com/careers/students/internships/
• citadelsecurities.com/our-teams/