Senior Staff Engineer: Real-Time Risk & Agentic AI

CME Group; Chicago (IL); On-site; USD 180,000 - 240,000; Full time

Job summary

CME Group is seeking a Senior Staff Agentic Software Engineer to lead the transition to agentic engineering, leveraging AI coding tools to scale high-speed, low-latency positions and risk management systems.

You will architect Java on GCP, standardize agentic workflows, and mentor teams to deliver reliable, safe software with zero-downtime requirements in mission-critical environments.

Qualifications

• 8+ years of hands-on experience building, deploying, and maintaining scalable real-time systems across the full stack.
• Expert-level proficiency in Java and the Spring framework; multi-threaded concurrent applications, memory management, and race-condition diagnostics.
• Hands-on experience with AI coding agents in production workflows: multi-step agent tasks, agent-authored PRs, agent-driven test generation.
• Deep experience with GCP services (GKE, Pub/Sub, BigQuery, Cloud Run, Dataflow) and real-time messaging frameworks (Kafka, MQ, Flink).
• Strong proficiency in SQL, Postgres, and Python for scripting, data analysis, or tooling integration.
• Experience with distributed tracing, SLO/SLI monitoring, and chaos engineering in production environments where failures impact finance/regulation.

Responsibilities

• Lead the architecture, design, and development of high-volume, low-latency Java applications on Google Cloud Platform for mission-critical systems, ensuring ultra-high availability and thread safety.
• Lead the team’s shift toward agentic software engineering; standardize toolchains, system prompts, context repositories, and agentic loops across the lifecycle.
• Build and maintain shared agent infrastructure: repo-level agent context, MCP server integration, codebase indexing pipelines, and local developer tooling feeding AI agents.
• Design dynamic evaluation harnesses, automated test suites, and CI/CD guardrails to audit and validate AI-generated code for concurrency bugs and performance issues.
• Maintain and enhance high-throughput CI/CD automation pipelines for secure, reliable production deployments.
• Mentor engineers through the workflow shift; lead hands-on workshops to train traditional developers into proficient AI-native engineers.

Skills

Java

Spring

Concurrency

AI coding agents

GCP

Real-time messaging

SQL

Postgres

Python

Distributed tracing

Chaos engineering

Mentoring

Leadership

Education

Bachelor’s degree or higher in Computer Science, Mathematics, Financial Engineering, or related field

Tools

Gemini CLI

Claude Code

Codex

Cursor

Antigravity

MCP server

Job description

CME Group is seeking a Senior Staff Agentic Software Engineer to lead the transition to agentic engineering, leveraging AI coding tools to scale high-speed, low-latency positions and risk management systems.

You will architect Java on GCP, standardize agentic workflows, and mentor teams to deliver reliable, safe software with zero-downtime requirements in mission-critical environments.