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Staff Site Reliability Engineer

Chicago - 20 S. Wacker💼 Full-time💰 $132,100–$132,100🗓 2026-05-03 → 2026-09-26

Core

Technical lead and architect for the Platform Engineering SRE organization, evolving infrastructure from 'service' to 'product' for the world's leading derivatives marketplace.

Role type

Staff Site Reliability Engineer (Platform Engineering Lead)

Builds

GCP-native stack, self-service internal development platform, and mission-critical Kafka event bus for ultra-low latency financial ecosystems.

Domain

Financial Markets / High-Frequency Trading / Cloud Infrastructure

Deliverable

production ML models | infrastructure

Required skills

Generative AI & Agentic workflows, Python, Go, GCP (Networking, IAM, GKE), Kafka, Terraform, ArgoCD, Distributed Systems Theory, Executive Communication

Preferred skills

Node.js, modern front-end frameworks, Financial Markets domain expertise

Technologies

GCP, GKE, Kafka, Python, Go, Terraform, ArgoCD, Gemini

Responsibilities

Define 12–18 month technical strategy for Platform SRE teams, act as final technical authority for major infrastructure changes, lead response for complex cross-functional outages, architect high-level abstractions for the internal development platform, standardize SLIs/SLOs/Error Budgets, mentor senior engineers and drive architectural evolution

Seniority

Staff, hands-on IC with strategic leadership

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