Akuna Capital
Platform Engineer Intern, Summer 2027
Chicago, ILFrom $145kinternshipinternAdded today
About this role
Join Akuna Capital's Platform Engineering team as a summer intern for a 10-week program where you'll design and build automated operations infrastructure, develop highly available cloud platform components, and own a meaningful project from conception to presentation.
What you'll do
- Design and support scalable platform offerings for internal stakeholders
- Develop hybrid cloud platform capabilities alongside cross-functional teams
- Write production-quality, well-tested, and documented code for infrastructure systems
- Build highly automated operations and monitoring solutions
- Own a complete project throughout the internship duration
- Present accomplishments and learnings at program conclusion
What they're looking for
- Software engineering and clean code practices
- Cloud platform architecture and hybrid cloud systems
- Infrastructure automation and DevOps
- System design and scalability
- Software testing and quality assurance
- Monitoring and operational excellence
- Collaboration and technical communication
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Akuna Capital
Akuna Capital is an options market-maker and trading firm that operates 24/7 across crypto and traditional markets globally. The company is hiring Systems Engineers, Software Engineers, Security Engineers, and Data Engineers to build and maintain low-latency trading infrastructure, core trading systems, large-scale data pipelines, and secure technical infrastructure.
View all jobs at Akuna CapitalLikely interview questions
- Describe a system you've built or worked on that required high availability and scalability—what challenges did you face?
- How do you approach writing code intended for production infrastructure versus application code?