Production Engineer

Job Description

Production Engineer

Location: Chicago

Type: Full-time, Permanent

Total Compensation: Up to $600k split netween base and bonus

A leading global trading firm is seeking a hands-on Production Engineer to improve how software and infrastructure changes reach production quickly, safely and reliably.

This is an opportunity to own critical production systems end to end, build high-trust automation, and make a measurable impact on the reliability of a demanding trading environment.

The role

The successful candidate will design and build deployment pipelines that make production change safer, faster and more controlled—from validation through rollout and post-deployment verification. They will strengthen monitoring, observability and alerting across production environments, enabling faster incident detection and clearer operational visibility.

The role also involves developing automation and tooling that removes operational friction, improves environment consistency and raises system reliability. The engineer will work closely with operations, development and infrastructure teams to establish strong feedback loops and align production environments across global offices.

What the engineer will do

• Design, build and improve deployment pipelines that enable safe, efficient and controlled production change.
• Build and maintain monitoring, observability and alerting infrastructure to improve incident detection and operational visibility.
• Develop automation and tooling that reduces manual toil, improves consistency and increases reliability.
• Take operational ownership of production sub-systems, including their performance, stability and ongoing improvement.
• Own work end to end—from understanding the business problem through design, implementation, testing, deployment and monitoring.
• Partner with engineers across global offices to align production environments, tooling and operational practices.
• Collaborate with operations, development and infrastructure stakeholders to improve production feedback loops.
• Mentor junior engineers and contribute to the growth of a high-performing technical team.
• Identify risks, security gaps and operational weaknesses, then drive practical improvements.

Benefits include:

• Highly competitive compensation package.
• Global profit-sharing pool and performance-based bonus structure.
• 401(k) match of up to 50%.
• Comprehensive health, mental-health, dental, vision, disability and life insurance.
• 25 days of paid vacation, plus market holidays.
• Extensive office perks, including breakfast, lunch, snacks, social events, clubs and sporting leagues.

What the firm is looking for

The ideal candidate is a systems-minded engineer who thrives at the intersection of software, infrastructure and operations. They are motivated by enabling fast, safe change and understand the importance of clear standards, scalable workflows and high-trust automation in production.

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or a related technical discipline.
• Strong programming ability, with Python as a minimum; Golang or Rust would be advantageous.
• Solid grounding in software engineering principles and production systems.
• Broad understanding of the full technology stack, including server hardware, networking, Linux, databases, web servers and applications.
• Experience with CI/CD tooling and production change pipelines.
• Experience with metrics and observability platforms.
• Experience with technologies such as Ansible, Django, FastAPI, Flask, Jenkins, HashiCorp Vault, Docker/Podman and Kubernetes would be beneficial.
• Prior production management experience would be advantageous.
• A strong improvement mindset, with the ability to critically assess complex operational, reliability and security challenges.

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