As a Senior SRE at CME Group, you aren't just maintaining systems; you are architecting the future of global financial resilience. You will operate at the precise intersection of high-scale software engineering and visionary systems design, ensuring our Google Cloud Platform (Google Cloud Platform) ecosystem is resilient-by-design.
What You'll Get- A supportive environment fostering career progression, continuous learning, and an inclusive culture.
- Broad exposure to CME's diverse products, asset classes, and cross-functional teams.
- A competitive salary and comprehensive benefits package. Learn more about our career opportunities here .
What You'll Do- Engineer Resilience: Architect ultra-high reliability and fault tolerance for mission-critical clearing systems operating under the world's most stringent regulatory demands.
- Eliminate Toil: Eradicate operational friction by driving radical automation across the system lifecycle, implementing self-healing solutions that preemptively neutralize incidents.
- Collaborative Building: Partner with development teams to bake SRE principles directly into the SDLC, ensuring high-volume financial applications are robust from the first line of code.
- Master Observability: Champion cutting-edge observability and performance testing standards using OpenTelemetry and Prometheus to diagnose complex bottlenecks before they impact the market.
- Strategic Leadership: Navigate complex environment deployments and release cycles, setting the gold standard for design patterns and governance across the portfolio.
What You'll Bring- Cloud Mastery: Deep hands-on experience deploying IaaS and PaaS solutions, specifically within Google Cloud Platform (Google Cloud Platform) .
- Polyglot Engineering: Proficiency in Java , Python , and Go . A background in Typescript or Rust is a significant advantage for our evolving stack.
- Infrastructure as Code: Expert-level command of Terraform and configuration management tools like Chef to maintain immutable infrastructure.
- Systems Fluency: A rigorous understanding of both Linux and Windows internals, including performance tuning and kernel-level troubleshooting.
- Security & Compliance Mindset: The ability to weave security and regulatory frameworks into a high-speed CI/CD pipeline without sacrificing velocity.
- Methodical Problem Solving: A disciplined approach to root cause analysis and a proven ability to mentor others in the SRE mindset.
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 $119,900-$199,800. Actual salary offered will be dependent on a wide array of factors including but not limited to: relevant experience, skills, education and comparison to internal employees (where relevant). Our compensation program also includes an annual target bonus opportunity for all employees, as well as the opportunity to become an owner in the company through our broad-based equity program. Through our benefits program, we strive to offer flexibility, value and choice. From comprehensive health coverage, to a retirement package that includes both a 401(k) and an active pension plan, to highly competitive education reimbursement provisions, paid time off and a mental health benefit, CME Group offers a holistic benefits package for our team and their dependents.
CME Group: Where Futures are MadeCME Group is the world's leading derivatives marketplace. But who we are goes deeper than that. Here, you can impact markets worldwide. Transform industries. And build a career by shaping tomorrow. We invest in your success and you own it - all while working alongside a team of leading experts who inspire you in ways big and small. Problem solvers, difference makers, trailblazers. Those are our people. And we're looking for more.
At CME Group, we embrace our employees' unique experiences and skills to ensure that everyone's perspectives are acknowledged and valued. As an equal-opportunity employer, we consider all potential employees without regard to any protected characteristic.
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