CME Group · 12 hours ago
Senior Site Reliability Engineer
Chicago - 20 S. Wacker
Full-time
Hybrid
Mid, Senior Level
$117K/yr - $194K/yr
5+ years expCME Group is seeking a Senior Site Reliability Engineer (SRE) to lead reliability initiatives across their critical Markets portfolio. The role involves architecting and implementing solutions for CME’s Globex trading platform, ensuring low-latency and high-reliability services, while mentoring engineers and influencing strategic direction for reliability.
FinanceFinancial ServicesMarketplaceStock Exchanges
Responsibilities
Define and Evangelize Reliability: Collaborate with SRE and product leadership to define reliability targets, establishing meaningful SLIs and SLOs by distilling complex user journeys
Lead Reliability Architecture: Act as a key partner to product teams, designing and delivering foundational improvements in observability, monitoring, and alerting. You'll take full accountability for the delivery of significant changes
Drive the Reliability Roadmap: Lead backlog discussions with product owners and stakeholders, identifying systemic reliability risks and influencing roadmap prioritization
Architect for Automation: Design and implement sophisticated automation for deployment, scaling, and recovery to build resilient, self-healing systems
Command Major Incidents: Lead the response to major incidents with urgency and a customer-first mindset. You'll ensure rapid system recovery and drive impactful, long-term fixes through blameless post-mortems
Champion SRE Culture: Act as a reliability advocate across the organization. Mentor and guide junior SREs and product team engineers, embedding SRE best practices into the software development lifecycle
Lead Technical Strategy: Run data-driven production review meetings, holding teams accountable to SLOs and error budgets. You'll also stay informed on emerging technologies to guide our technical strategy
Qualification
Required
5+ years of professional experience in a Site Reliability, DevOps, or Software Engineering role with a focus on reliability
Expert-level knowledge of administering, troubleshooting, and tuning Linux-based production systems
Strong coding and architecture skills in a language like Python or Go. Experience with Java is a bonus
Proven experience driving reliability improvements across teams or services, with a track record of influencing technical direction
A deep understanding of application architecture, distributed systems, and messaging protocols
Exceptional communication and leadership skills, with the ability to influence and align stakeholders from different disciplines
A proactive, growth mindset with the ability to adapt and lead in a dynamic, fast-paced environment
Preferred
Extensive experience architecting and managing solutions in Google Cloud Platform (GCP), especially with GKE
Experienced in modern observability stacks (e.g., Prometheus, Grafana, OpenTelemetry) and defining observability strategy
Deep, practical experience with Kubernetes and Docker in complex production environments
Strong knowledge of networking protocols (HTTP, TCP/UDP, IP) and infrastructure
Significant experience in financial markets, low-latency trading systems, or with message-oriented middleware
Benefits
Annual target bonus opportunity
Broad-based equity program
Comprehensive health coverage
Retirement package that includes both a 401(k) and an active pension plan
Highly competitive education reimbursement provisions
Paid time off
Mental health benefit
Company
CME Group
CME Group is a diverse derivatives marketplace that manages risk and capture opportunities.
1001-5000 employees
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Funding
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Public CompanyTotal Funding
$1BKey Investors
Google
2021-11-04Post Ipo Equity· $1B
2002-12-06IPO
Leadership Team
Lynne Fitzpatrick
President and CFO
Julie Holzrichter
Chief Operating Officer
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