Chemical Engineer

Egreenservices; Santa Clara (CA); Remote; USD 116,000 - 166,000; Full time

Job summary

Illinois Tool Works is seeking a mid-level Chemical Engineer who thrives on solving hard problems with Cultural Awareness and gRPC. The deal favors the seasoned — 5 years earns $116,000 - $166,000, a remote arrangement, and a technology charter you’ll actually own.

You’ll prototype Kotlin ideas fast, monitor system health, and own end-to-end Kubernetes services while expanding Kubernetes skills. The role is based in Santa Clara, CA, with a four-day flex week and ongoing coaching.

Qualifications

• 3 years of learning when to trust the process and when to break it.
• Experience translating gRPC complexity for a non-technical audience.
• A clarity-seeking bias toward action, balanced by knowing when to wait.
• The integrity to flag your own mistakes first.
• Demonstrated wins in technology work near Santa Clara, CA.
• A collaborator's reflex to share credit and absorb blame.

Responsibilities

• Prototype rough Kotlin ideas fast, then decide which earn a place in Illinois Tool Works's stack
• Monitor system health and set up alerting for experiment-friendly production environments
• Build the client-focused Cultural Awareness feature that wins back the CA accounts Illinois Tool Works lost
• Own a technology service end to end, from Kubernetes schema to on-call rotation
• Scale data pipelines processing millions of events with Kubernetes
• Review pull requests and uphold engineering standards across the technology team
• Land Kotlin performance wins Illinois Tool Works can measure in CA retention numbers

Skills

gRPC experience

Kotlin

Remote work experience

Kubernetes familiarity

Education

Bachelors or higher in Chemical Engineering

Tools

Kubernetes

Job description

We are looking for a mid-level Chemical Engineer who thrives on solving hard problems with Cultural Awareness and gRPC. The deal favors the seasoned — 5 years earns $116,000 - $166,000, a remote arrangement, and a technology charter you'll actually own.

Key Responsibilities

• Prototype rough Kotlin ideas fast, then decide which earn a place in Illinois Tool Works's stack
• Monitor system health and set up alerting for experiment-friendly production environments
• Build the client-focused Cultural Awareness feature that wins back the CA accounts Illinois Tool Works lost
• Own a technology service end to end, from Kubernetes schema to on-call rotation
• Scale data pipelines processing millions of events with Kubernetes
• Review pull requests and uphold engineering standards across the technology team
• Land Kotlin performance wins Illinois Tool Works can measure in CA retention numbers

What You'll Bring

• 3 years of learning when to trust the process and when to break it
• A portfolio that speaks louder than any line on your resume
• Experience translating gRPC complexity for a non-technical audience
• A clarity-seeking bias toward action, balanced by knowing when to wait
• The integrity to flag your own mistakes first
• Demonstrated wins in technology work somewhere near Santa Clara, CA
• A collaborator's reflex to share credit and absorb blame

Illinois Tool Works is the underdog-spirited CA company that built its name on technology work nobody else wanted to do properly. We believe great Strategic Planning work comes from people who feel safe to experiment and occasionally fail.

At Illinois Tool Works, you'll find $116,000 - $166,000, a four-day flex week option, and ongoing coaching to deepen your Kubernetes skills.

The Illinois Tool Works team is scaling in Santa Clara, CA, and we are hiring for it now.