Platform Engineer Intern

Akuna Capital is an innovative trading firm with a strong focus on collaboration, cutting-edge technology, data driven solutions, and automation. We specialize in providing liquidity as an options market maker. We are seeking Platform Engineer Interns to join our innovative and growing technology team for our 10-week Akunacademy internship program. You will work within the Platform Engineering Team, gaining expertise through building highly automated operations while monitoring and managing the operational capabilities of systems at Akuna.

Responsibilities

Support and design the ongoing growth, design, and expansion of Platform offerings to meet the needs of internal stakeholders with scalable, reliable, and highly available systems; Work with stream aligned and partner platform teams to develop hybrid cloud platform; Produce clean, well-tested, and documented code with a clear design to support production infrastructure and systems; Challenge the status quo and help push the organization forward; Take full ownership of project and present work and accomplishments at end of program

Requirements

Pursuing a bachelor's, master's, or Ph.D. in a technical field (computer science/engineering, math, physics, or equivalent); Graduating by August 2028; Major GPA of 3.5 or above; Legal authorization to work in the U.S. is required on the first day of employment including F-1 students using OPT or STEM; Ability to react quickly and accurately to rapidly changing market conditions, including the ability to quickly and accurately respond and/or solve math and coding problems

Nice to have

Experience with Infrastructure as Code (IaC), Kubernetes, and AWS Cloud; Experience with cloud computing, networking, data engineering and security

Benefits

Training and continuous education are provided for all engineers; AI-friendly company