Hybrid Platform Engineer — Kubernetes & Observability

CJ; Chicago (IL); Hybrid; USD 8,721 - 131,230; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Hybrid work arrangement

401K matching

Wellness program

Paid holidays

Employee referral program

Job summary

CJ is a leader in performance marketing, operating a large, reliable affiliate platform with global brands. As a Software Engineer 3 on the EngExp platform, you will own and evolve critical systems spanning Kubernetes, CI/CD, observability, and AWS networking.

This hybrid role requires 3 days in the Chicago office and work authorization in the United States. You will build scalable infrastructure, drive changes from design through production, and collaborate across squads to improve platform

Qualifications

• 3+ years of experience in software or infrastructure engineering.
• Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience.
• Hands-on production experience with Kubernetes and at least one major cloud (AWS preferred).
• Real operational depth in observability stack (Prometheus/Alertmanager at scale).
• Comfort owning infrastructure-as-code (Terraform) and CI/CD pipelines.
• Can reason about tradeoffs and communicate pros/cons of approaches.
• Effective communication; thrives in a collaborative team culture.

Responsibilities

• Own and evolve meaningful pieces of the systems above with a focus on what is happening and why.
• Manage infrastructure-as-code with Terraform across AWS accounts.
• Build and maintain GitLab CI/CD pipelines and GitOps delivery (ArgoCD).
• Help enforce platform standards: RBAC, admission webhooks, resource limits, LimitRanges.
• Turn recurring requests into self-service workflows for ingress, DNS, and service accounts.

Skills

Kubernetes

Prometheus

OpenTelemetry

GitLab CI/CD

Terraform

ArgoCD

Nexus

Vault

AWS

Education

Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience

Tools

Kubernetes

GitLab

Nexus

Docker

Terraform

Job description

CJ is a leader in performance marketing, operating a large, reliable affiliate platform with global brands. As a Software Engineer 3 on the EngExp platform, you will own and evolve critical systems spanning Kubernetes, CI/CD, observability, and AWS networking.

This hybrid role requires 3 days in the Chicago office and work authorization in the United States. You will build scalable infrastructure, drive changes from design through production, and collaborate across squads to improve platform