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DevEx Engineering Manager

Chicago, IL💼 Full-time💰 $158,950–$158,950🗓 2026-09-21 → 2026-09-25

Core

Own the internal platform and developer experience (DevEx) for engineering teams, ensuring high productivity, reliability, and efficient delivery pipelines.

Role type

Senior Engineering Manager (DevEx/Platform)

Builds

Internal developer platforms, CI/CD pipelines, observability tooling, and deployment infrastructure.

Domain

Regulated financial markets infrastructure (clearinghouse) and DevOps.

Deliverable

production ML models | product features | dashboards & analysis | infrastructure

Required skills

Platform engineering leadership, developer experience strategy, reliability engineering, team building and hiring, CI/CD pipeline ownership, SLO/error budget management, architecture decision records, automation of manual work.

Preferred skills

Kubernetes/Nomad, Infrastructure as Code, regulated financial infrastructure experience, Linux production operations.

Technologies

Kubernetes, GitHub Actions, ArgoCD, Helm, PostgreSQL, Kafka, Harbor, Artifactory, Java.

Responsibilities

Lead and grow a small engineering team; remove platform work from product teams to focus on domain problems; define platform strategy aligned with delivery needs; own CI pipelines and deployment tooling; act as the voice of developers to the central platform team; instrument delivery and production health; define SLOs and run the team to error budgets; automate repeated manual work; run reliability practices and disaster recovery drills; author architecture decision records; partner with security on lifecycle controls.

Seniority

Senior, hands-on IC with management responsibilities

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