Systems Administrator Intern - New York - Summer 2024

D. E. Shaw

Oct 6, 2023

Applications are closed

Internship
Full-time
Summer Internship
Software Engineering
$10K
New York

Requirements

Candidates will have a dedicated interest in both building technology and helping others use it effectively. They’ll successfully combine superb research and analytical skills to resolve unfamiliar problems and advance challenging work.
Applicants should have a basic knowledge of the on-premise and cloud Microsoft enterprise environment and a demonstrated interest in improving processes and technology. Familiarity with general systems administration, experience in a Linux environment, and experience with Python, PowerShell, and/or other scripting languages is a plus.
Excellent interpersonal, communication, and organizational skills are critical, as the role involves working with global colleagues across a diverse set of backgrounds, experiences, and projects.
In keeping with our firm’s culture and the ever-changing nature of our work, we’re more interested in talent, curiosity, and motivation as demonstrated by an impressive history of achievement than we are in any particular skill or experience.
The expected monthly base salary for this position is $10,000. Our compensation package includes travel to the internship, overtime for all hours worked over 40 per week, a sign-on bonus, and choice of corporate housing or a summer housing allowance.

Responsibilities

Systems administrator interns will be responsible for a variety of project and support work, which may include troubleshooting complex technical issues, administering various infrastructure-level systems, and implementing automation and efficiency improvements.
Specific projects will be matched to a candidate’s interests and experience; sample projects include working alongside our engineering team to build conference room monitoring tools, improving our capabilities for visualizing and reporting on metrics, and collaborating with other Systems interns to increase our global collaboration and find ways to enhance productivity through automation.

D. E. Shaw

Finance

Industry

1001-5000

Employees

1988

Founded Year

Mission & Purpose

The D. E. Shaw group is trusted by investors across the world to manage their assets by seeking the optimal balance of risk and reward. While we’re known as a pioneer in quantitative investing, we also have considerable expertise in areas that involve fundamental analysis or portfolio manager discretion. We use a combination of quantitative and qualitative tools to uncover independent, hard-to-find sources of return across global public and private markets. Founded in 1988 over a small bookstore in downtown New York City, the D. E. Shaw group began with six employees and $28 million in capital and quickly became a pioneer in computational finance. In the early days of exposed pipes and extension cords, tripping on a cable could take out our whole trading system. Today, the firm has more than 2,000 people around the globe and an institutional-grade (and trip-proof) infrastructure, but we still value creativity, entrepreneurship, and the spirit of discovery.