Site Reliability Engineer II

CME Group

Hybrid

Quick summary

Work type
Hybrid
Location
Chicago, IL
Salary
$93,900–$156,500 / yr
Posted
46 days ago

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Salary context

Below market

How this pay compares to similar roles

Similar $171k
This role $125k
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This role pays less than 85% of similar roles. Most pay $138,507–$203,239 — the shaded band above. At the midpoint, this role pays about $125k versus about $171k for comparable roles.

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About CME Group

CME Group operates the world''s largest financial derivatives marketplace, offering futures and options products across interest rates, equity indexes, foreign exchange, energy, agricultural products, and metals. Industry: Financial Exchanges & Derivatives

CME Group currently has 10 open roles on FindRole.

Listed pay typically runs $119,900–$199,800 across 10 roles with salary data.

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TL;DR · Site Reliability Engineer II

CME Group seeks a Senior Site Reliability Engineer II to join their Clearing portfolio team in Chicago, focusing on systems that support CME’s Globex trading platform. This role involves collaborating with senior engineers and product teams to enhance observability, monitoring, and alerting for critical services while participating in on-call rotations and incident response. The SRE will also contribute to disaster recovery testing, system resiliency improvements, and the migration of clearing applications to Google Cloud Platform (GCP). Essential skills include Linux-based systems experience, basic programming/scripting abilities with Python or Bash, strong problem-solving skills, and excellent communication. Desirable qualifications are familiarity with cloud platforms like GCP, Kubernetes, distributed systems, and financial markets expertise. This position offers the chance to work on cutting-edge technology in a fast-paced trading environment at a global leader in financial services technology.

What you'll do

  • Assist senior engineers in building observability and monitoring for key services.
  • Write scripts and tools to reduce operational overhead and increase efficiency.
  • Participate in on-call rotations and incident response under guidance from senior engineers.
  • Support the migration of clearing applications to Google Cloud Platform (GCP).
  • Contribute to disaster recovery and system resiliency testing and improvements.
  • Collaborate with cross-functional teams to enhance system performance and reliability.

What we're looking for

  • Experience with Linux-based systems and basic programming/scripting skills (Python, Bash).
  • Strong problem-solving and analytical abilities combined with excellent communication skills.
  • Eagerness to learn and adapt in a fast-paced trading environment.
  • Collaborative teamwork experience working alongside senior engineers.
  • Experience with Cloud-based platforms, preferably Google Cloud Platform (GCP).
  • Knowledge of metrics & monitoring tools such as OpenTelemetry, Splunk, Prometheus, Grafana.

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