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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.

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Likely 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?