Engineer, Platform Engineering - Systems

Cedar Cares, Inc; Chicago (IL); On-site; USD 103,000 - 133,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive salary

Generous PTO

Health, dental and vision benefits

401(k) match

Tuition assistance

Job summary

Cboe Global Markets in Chicago is seeking a DevEx Engineer to help design and run developer experience tooling on Kubernetes. You will build and own CI pipelines, observability, and infrastructure automation to empower engineers.

You will collaborate across teams to reduce deployment pain, define SLIs, and ensure reliable production systems while advancing a modern, secure platform in a fast-paced financial-tech environment.

Qualifications

• 2+ years in platform, developer experience, infrastructure or reliability engineering with a bachelor's degree, or 5+ years without a degree
• Experience supporting developer experience across the delivery lifecycle, from build and test through deployment and observability
• Experience building and operating production application services, in Java or a comparable language, before moving into developer tooling
• Observability instrumentation in services and pipelines (metrics, logs, traces)
• Defining service level objectives and running to an error budget with actionable alerting

Responsibilities

• Build and maintain CI pipelines in GitHub Actions
• Own Helm charts and environment configurations
• Instrument pipelines to produce production-grade delivery metrics
• Add observability into microservices (logs, traces, metrics)
• Define and enforce SLIs and error budgets
• Automate deployments to make releases safe and repeatable
• Operate containerized services on Kubernetes
• Manage infrastructure as code for reproducible environments
• Contribute to incident response and durable fixes

Skills

Platform experience

Developer experience

Observability

Linux fundamentals

Kubernetes

Java

Education

Bachelor's degree or equivalent

Tools

GitHub Actions

Kubernetes

Terraform

YAML

PostgreSQL

Job description

Job Description

Building trusted markets — powered by our people

At Cboe Global Markets, we inspire our people to solve complex challenges together because what we do matters. We provide the financial infrastructure that powers the global economy. As a leading provider of market infrastructure and tradable products, Cboe delivers cutting-edge trading, clearing and investment solutions to market participants around the world. We're building meaningful ways to support professional and personal development while strengthening the trust we've earned as a global market leader. Our teams are empowered to share ideas, actively pursue them and bring on a challenge. As champions of internal mobility and access to opportunity, we encourage our people to “go for it” and equip our managers with the training to coach their teams to the next level. We strive to provide employees a safe space to network, share ideas and create opportunities. To support strong partnership and team connection, this role follows a four day in office work model.

Location Overview

Cboe HQ is located in the historic Old Post Office district, it’s a landmark that blends classic architecture with modern amenities. The building features expansive spaces with high ceilings and large windows, offering an abundance of natural light and panoramic views of the city skyline and the Chicago River. With its prime location in the heart of downtown, the OPO Building provides easy access to major transportation hubs, including Union Station and multiple CTA lines, making it convenient for commuters. The building is home to a variety of amenities, including restaurants, a fitness center, and collaborative workspaces, creating a vibrant and dynamic work environment in one of Chicago's most iconic areas.

Role Overview

Cboe Clear U.S. (CCUS) is a regulated clearinghouse. We clear the event contracts and prediction markets listed on Cboe's exchanges, and we are building toward tokenized collateral, 24x7 operation, and the infrastructure that carries traditional finance onto DeFi rails. CCUS Software Engineering is a high trust environment. We treat failure as a source of learning, and we expect engineering teams to work across team boundaries rather than only within their departments. We solve the problem, then we write the code. Design documents and architecture decision records come first. The engineers we value most close their feedback loop. They write tests, and they instrument what they ship so it fails fast, explains itself in production, leaves an audit trail and rolls back cleanly. The DevEx Engineer builds the pipelines, tooling and observability every other engineer here depends on. You would be one of the first engineers on a new developer experience team, which means you help choose the tooling and set the standards rather than arrive after those decisions are made. That scope is unusual for an individual contributor role and it is the strongest reason to take this job.

Responsibilities

• Building and maintaining our CI pipelines in GitHub Actions, and integrating them with the platform team's deployment tooling.
• Owning the Helm charts and values that define how our services run in each environment.
• Instrumenting those pipelines to produce real metrics on our software delivery lifecycle.
• Wiring observability into our microservices so engineers can diagnose behavior in production rather than reproduce it locally, including logging, tracing and retention.
• Defining service level objectives for the services this team provides, and holding them to an error budget.
• Making the path to production push button and reversible, so releases and rollbacks are routine, automated and low risk.
• Creating tooling that measurably improves how quickly and safely other engineers ship.
• Deploying and operating containerized services on Kubernetes.
• Managing infrastructure as code and keeping environments consistent and reproducible.
• Participating in incident response and turning findings into durable fixes rather than repeat tickets.
• Contributing to disaster recovery testing and the validation of recovery objectives.
• Documenting decisions in architecture decision records so choices stay visible to other teams.

Requirements

• Minimum Work Experience: 2+ years in platform, developer experience, infrastructure or reliability engineering with a bachelor's degree, or 5+ years without a degree
• Experience supporting developer experience across the delivery lifecycle, from build and test through deployment and observability
• Experience building and operating production application services, in Java or a comparable language, before moving into developer tooling
• Instrumenting services and pipelines for observability, including the metrics, logs and traces that make runtime behavior visible
• Defining service level objectives and running to an error budget, with alerting that reflects user impact rather than machine noise
• Reducing deployment pain through automation, so changes reach production on a repeatable path with a low change failure rate and fast time to restore service
• A bias toward automating repeated work permanently rather than performing it twice
• Strong Linux fundamentals and comfort operating containerized services on Kubernetes, Nomad or similar orchestrators

Preferred

• Proficiency in Python, Terraform and YAML, which is what most of this work is actually written in
• Container runtimes such as Docker or Podman
• GitOps deployment workflows
• Building CI pipelines and integrating them with deployment tooling you did not write
• Shell scripting and comfort automating around tools that lack an API
• Incident response and disaster recovery testing
• Financial markets infrastructure or other regulated, latency-sensitive systems

Nice to have

• Cloud platforms including AWS, Azure or GCP
• AI-assisted development tooling
• Working SQL and comfort with PostgreSQL
• Experience standing up a platform function from scratch

Current technology stack

Java on Kubernetes. Application code and CI pipelines live in GitHub with GitHub Actions. Container images and build artifacts live in registries such as Harbor and Artifactory, and Helm charts are deployed by ArgoCD from a GitOps repository. PostgreSQL, Kafka and Linux. This is representative rather than exhaustive. Our platform team runs the deployment platform on its own tooling, in its own repositories, so a real part of this role is integrating cleanly across that boundary and telling them what our application developers need. You do not need experience with every technology in our environment. We hire for competencies over pedigree, so if you have built similar systems and learn quickly, we encourage you to apply.

Benefits and Perks of working for Cboe Global Markets

• Fair and competitive salary and incentive compensation packages with an upside for overachievement
• Generous paid time off, including vacation, personal days, sick days and annual community service days
• Health, dental and vision benefits, including access to telemedicine and mental health services
• 2:1 401(k) match, up to 8% match immediately upon hire
• Discounted Employee Stock Purchase Plan
• Tax Savings Accounts for health, dependent and transportation
• Employee referral bonus program
• Volunteer opportunities to help you give back to your communities
• Complimentary lunch, snacks and coffee in any Cboe office
• Paid Tuition assistance and education opportunities
• Generous charitable giving company match
• Paid parental leave and fertility benefits
• On-site gyms and discounts to other fitness centers
• Paid Time Off

More About Cboe Global Markets

We’re reimagining the future of the workplace by focusing on what matters most, our people. Our journey is an inclusive one. We’re investing deeply in leadership programs and career development initiatives that ensure everyone has an equal chance to succeed. We work with purpose, solving problems with ingenuity, collaboration, and a lot of passion. We’re an engaged and excited team connecting markets across borders and embracing growth in all its forms to achieve incredible outcomes. Learn more about life at Cboe on our website and LinkedIn.

Equal Employment Opportunity

We’re proud to be an equal opportunity employer who does not discriminate against any employee or applicant for employment based on any legally protected characteristic, including race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, disability, genetic information, or veteran status. We are committed to fostering a workplace where all individuals are valued and respected.

Salary Ranges (applicable for US locations only)

At Cboe, we are committed to providing a competitive, transparent, and market‑informed total rewards program. The anticipated base salary range for this role is $102,850-$133,100, with actual compensation determined by job‑related factors such as skills, relevant experience, education, internal alignment, and location. This role may also be eligible for annual incentive compensation and, where applicable, participation in Cboe's long‑term equity programs. Additional information about Cboe's total rewards program, including benefits and other compensation components, can be found here: Total Rewards at CBOE.