Senior Site Reliability Engineer

CME Group is seeking a Senior Site Reliability Engineer (SRE) to lead reliability initiatives across our critical Markets portfolio. You will be a key technical leader for the systems behind CME’s Globex trading platform, where you'll architect and implement solutions that ensure our low-latency, high-reliability services can handle the world’s busiest trading days.

As a Senior SRE, you will leverage your deep expertise in SRE principles to drive systemic improvements, mentor engineers across multiple teams, and work with leadership to set the strategic direction for reliability.

**Shift is Tuesday - Saturday**

Key Responsibilities

• Define and Evangelize Reliability: Collaborate with SRE and product leadership to define reliability targets, establishing meaningful SLIs and SLOs by distilling complex user journeys.

• Lead Reliability Architecture: Act as a key partner to product teams, designing and delivering foundational improvements in observability, monitoring, and alerting. You'll take full accountability for the delivery of significant changes.

• Drive the Reliability Roadmap: Lead backlog discussions with product owners and stakeholders, identifying systemic reliability risks and influencing roadmap prioritization.

• Architect for Automation: Design and implement sophisticated automation for deployment, scaling, and recovery to build resilient, self-healing systems.

• Command Major Incidents: Lead the response to major incidents with urgency and a customer-first mindset. You'll ensure rapid system recovery and drive impactful, long-term fixes through blameless post-mortems.

• Champion SRE Culture: Act as a reliability advocate across the organization. Mentor and guide junior SREs and product team engineers, embedding SRE best practices into the software development lifecycle.

• Lead Technical Strategy: Run data-driven production review meetings, holding teams accountable to SLOs and error budgets. You'll also stay informed on emerging technologies to guide our technical strategy.

What We're Looking For

• 5+ years of professional experience in a Site Reliability, DevOps, or Software Engineering role with a focus on reliability.

• Expert-level knowledge of administering, troubleshooting, and tuning Linux-based production systems.

• Strong coding and architecture skills in a language like Python or Go. Experience with Java is a bonus.

• Proven experience driving reliability improvements across teams or services, with a track record of influencing technical direction.

• A deep understanding of application architecture, distributed systems, and messaging protocols.

• Exceptional communication and leadership skills, with the ability to influence and align stakeholders from different disciplines.

• A proactive, growth mindset with the ability to adapt and lead in a dynamic, fast-paced environment.

Desirable Skills

• Cloud Architecture: Extensive experience architecting and managing solutions in Google Cloud Platform (GCP), especially with GKE.

• Observability Expertise: Experienced in modern observability stacks (e.g., Prometheus, Grafana, OpenTelemetry) and defining observability strategy.

• Container Orchestration: Deep, practical experience with Kubernetes and Docker in complex production environments.

• Network Engineering: Strong knowledge of networking protocols (HTTP, TCP/UDP, IP) and infrastructure.

• Domain Knowledge: Significant experience in financial markets, low-latency trading systems, or with message-oriented middleware.

Why CME Group

• Be part of a global leader in financial services technology.

• Work on cutting-edge technology in a collaborative and innovative culture.

• Receive a competitive compensation and benefits package.

• Grow your career in SRE with an organization committed to this modern approach.

Join CME Group and play a crucial role in ensuring the stability and performance of our global trading applications. Apply now to be a part of our dynamic SRE team!

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CME Group is committed to offering a competitive total rewards package for our employees that recognizes their contributions to the business and reflects our long-term investment in their future. The pay range for this role is $116,600-$194,300. Actual salary offered will be dependent on a wide array of factors including but not limited to: relevant experience, skills, education and comparison to i