Staff Systems Engineer - Compute Support

Description

As a Staff Systems Engineer within the Reliability, Engineering & Operations (REO) team, you will serve as a technical linchpin for CME Group’s mission-critical markets infrastructure. This role is designed for an experienced engineer who thrives at the intersection of high-scale distributed systems and cloud evolution. Operating on a Tuesday through Saturday schedule, you will provide critical support and continuity for our platforms, ensuring reliability and observability during critical market windows.

!!Work hours: Tuesday to Saturday, 2pm to 11pm CST!!

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.
• Explore our full range of benefits.

What You’ll Do

• Architect Resilience: Own and resolve escalated incidents within our distributed computing architecture, performing root cause analysis across client server, hardware platforms and resources: CPU, memory, virtualization, clustering and Cloud computing.
• Drive Cloud Evolution: Support the migration of markets applications & infrastructure to Google Cloud Platform (GCP).
• Engineer Observability: Partner with stakeholders to enhance alerting and observability to drive faster detection and data-driven decisions.
• Innovate through Automation: Eradicate manual toil by developing automated solutions that enhance system scalability and reliability across the enterprise.
• Lead and Mentor: Serve as a technical leader within the team, managing high-level discussions on architectural approaches and fostering the growth of junior engineers through intentional mentorship.
• Optimize Performance: Collaborate with SRE and Product teams to fine-tune system efficiency, ensuring our infrastructure meets the demands of global markets.

What You’ll Bring

• Operational Excellence: A strong background in incident response and SRE principles, with a demonstrated ability to take accountability for complex problems and change management.
• Deep Technical Expertise: Proven experience managing complex distributed systems, including client-server architecture, clustering, and hardware resource optimization (CPU & Memory).
• Automation Mindset: Proficiency in automating repetitive tasks to improve reliability; familiarity with Infrastructure as Code (IaC) and modern monitoring tools is highly valued.
• Leadership & Collaboration: Exceptional communication skills with the ability to lead technical presentations and influence cross-functional stakeholders.
• Cloud Proficiency: Proficiency with Google Cloud Platform (GCP) and a solid understanding of cloud-native architecture and virtualization.
• Mentorship: A passion for developing talent and sharing knowledge within a collaborative engineering culture.

Required Skills

• Deep knowledge of scripting languages such as Bash, PowerShell or Python.
• Cloud experience, Google Cloud preferred.
• Experience with administering and troubleshooting the Linux and Windows Operating Systems.
• Ability to present complex, technical ideas in a clear and concise manner to non-technical audiences.
• Detailed understanding of building systems to monitor and provide detailed observability into our infrastructure environment.

Pay Range

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).