Engineer, Platform Engineering - Systems
Cboe Global Markets1 day ago
Base Salary
$103k - $133k/yr
Responsibilities
- Build and maintain CI pipelines in GitHub Actions and integrate them with deployment tooling.
- Own Helm charts and environment values for service deployments.
- Instrument pipelines and microservices with metrics, logging, tracing, and retention controls.
- Define service level objectives, error budgets, and user-impact-focused alerting.
- Automate push-button, reversible releases and rollbacks while improving delivery speed and safety.
- Create developer tooling that improves how quickly and safely engineers ship.
- Deploy and operate containerized services on Kubernetes.
- Manage infrastructure as code and maintain consistent, reproducible environments.
- Participate in incident response and convert findings into durable fixes.
- Contribute to disaster recovery testing and recovery-objective validation.
- Document architectural decisions and integrate effectively with the platform team.
Requirements
- At least 2 years of platform, developer experience, infrastructure, or reliability engineering with a bachelor's degree, or 5+ years without a degree.
- Experience supporting developer experience across build, test, deployment, and observability.
- Experience building and operating production application services in Java or a comparable language.
- Experience instrumenting services and pipelines with metrics, logs, and traces.
- Experience defining service level objectives, operating with error budgets, and creating meaningful alerting.
- Experience reducing deployment friction through automation and improving change failure and recovery performance.
- Strong Linux fundamentals and experience operating containerized services on Kubernetes, Nomad, or similar orchestrators.
- Preferred proficiency in Python, Terraform, and YAML.
- Experience with Docker or Podman, GitOps deployment workflows, CI pipeline integration, shell scripting, incident response, and disaster recovery testing is preferred.
- Preferred experience includes financial markets infrastructure or other regulated, latency-sensitive systems.
- Nice-to-have experience includes AWS, Azure, or GCP; AI-assisted development tooling; SQL and PostgreSQL; and standing up a platform function from scratch.
Benefits
- Four days in the office in the Chicago headquarters work model.
- Health, dental, vision, telemedicine, mental health, paid time off, paid parental leave, and fertility benefits.
- 2:1 401(k) match up to an 8% match immediately upon hire and a discounted employee stock purchase plan.
- Health, dependent, and transportation tax savings accounts.
- Competitive salary and incentive compensation, employee referral bonuses, tuition assistance, education opportunities, charitable matching, and volunteer opportunities.
- Complimentary lunch, snacks, and coffee in Cboe offices, plus on-site gyms and fitness-center discounts.
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About Cboe Global Markets
Cboe Global Markets operates exchanges and market infrastructure for options, equities, futures, FX, ETPs, and digital assets used by brokers, banks, and institutional and retail investors. Its revenue comes from transaction and listing fees, market data and index licensing (including VIX and SPX), and related services. Founded in 1973 and headquartered in Chicago, it runs Cboe Options and Cboe Futures exchanges as well as European trading venues.