Engineer, Platform Engineering - Systems

Job Description:

Building trusted markets — powered by our people

At Cboe Global Markets, we inspire our people to solve complex challenges together because what we do matters. We provide the financial infrastructure that powers the global economy. As a leading provider of market infrastructure and tradable products, Cboe delivers cutting-edge trading, clearing and investment solutions to market participants around the world.

We're building meaningful ways to support professional and personal development while strengthening the trust we've earned as a global market leader. Our teams are empowered to share ideas, actively pursue them and bring on a challenge. As champions of internal mobility and access to opportunity, we encourage our people to “go for it” and equip our managers with the training to coach their teams to the next level. We strive to provide employees a safe space to network, share ideas and create opportunities.

To support strong partnership and team connection, this role follows a four day in office work model.

Location Overview

Cboe HQ is located in the historic Old Post Office district, it’s a landmark that blends classic architecture with modern amenities. The building features expansive spaces with high ceilings and large windows, offering an abundance of natural light and panoramic views of the city skyline and the Chicago River.

With its prime location in the heart of downtown, the OPO Building provides easy access to major transportation hubs, including Union Station and multiple CTA lines, making it convenient for commuters. The building is home to a variety of amenities, including restaurants, a fitness center, and collaborative workspaces, creating a vibrant and dynamic work environment in one of Chicago's most iconic areas.

Role Overview

Cboe Clear U.S. (CCUS) is a regulated clearinghouse. We clear the event contracts and prediction markets listed on Cboe's exchanges, and we are building toward tokenized collateral, 24x7 operation, and the infrastructure that carries traditional finance onto DeFi rails.

CCUS Software Engineering is a high trust environment. We treat failure as a source of learning, and we expect engineering teams to work across team boundaries rather than only within their departments. We solve the problem, then we write the code. Design documents and architecture decision records come first. The engineers we value most close their feedback loop. They write tests, and they instrument what they ship so it fails fast, explains itself in production, leaves an audit trail and rolls back cleanly.

The DevEx Engineer builds the pipelines, tooling and observability every other engineer here depends on. You would be one of the first engineers on a new developer experience team, which means you help choose the tooling and set the standards rather than arrive after those decisions are made. That scope is unusual for an individual contributor role and it is the strongest reason to take this job.

Your responsibilities will be:

Building and maintaining our CI pipelines in GitHub Actions, and integrating them with the platform team's deployment tooling.

Owning the Helm charts and values that define how our services run in each environment.

Instrumenting those pipelines to produce real metrics on our software delivery lifecycle.

Wiring observability into our microservices so engineers can diagnose behavior in production rather than reproduce it locally, including logging, tracing and retention.

Defining service level objectives for the services this team provides, and holding them to an error budget.

Making the path to production push button and reversible, so releases and rollbacks are routine, automated and low risk.

Creating tooling that measurably improves how quickly and safely other engineers ship.

Deploying and operating containerized services on Kubernetes.

Managing infrastructure as code and keeping environments consistent and reproducible.

Participating in incident response and turning findings into durable fixes rather than repeat tickets.

Contributing to disaster recovery testing and the validation of recovery objectives.

Documenting decisions in architecture decision records so choices stay visible to other teams.

Required:

• •Minimum Work Experience: 2+ years in platform, developer experience, infrastructure or reliability engineering with a bachelor's degree, or 5+ years without a degree
• •Experience supporting developer experience across the delivery lifecycle, from build and test through deployment and observability

Experience building and operating production application services, in Java or a comparable language, before moving into developer tooling

Instrumenting services and pipelines for observability, including the metrics, logs and traces that make runtime behavior visible

Defining service level objectives and running to an error budget, with alerting that reflects user impact rather than machine noise

Reducing deployment pain through automation, so changes reach production on a repeatable path with a low change failure rate and fast time to restore service

A bias toward automating repeated work permanently rather than performing it twice

Strong Linux fundamentals and comfort operating containerized services on Kubernetes, Nomad or similar orchestrators

Preferred:

Proficiency in Python, Terraform and YAML, which is what most of this work is actually written in

Container runtimes such as Docker or Podman

GitOps deployment workflows

Building CI pipelines and integrating them with deployment tooling you did not write

Shell scripting and comfort automating around tools that lack an API

Incident response and disaster recovery testing

Financial markets infrastructure or other regulated, latency-sensitive systems

Nice to have:

Cloud platforms including AWS, Azure or GCP

AI-assisted development tooling

Working SQL and comfort with PostgreSQL

Experience standing up a platform function from scratch

Current technology stack:

Java on Kubernetes. Application code and CI pipelines live in GitHub with GitHub Actions. Container images and build artifacts live in registries such as Harbor and Artifactory, and Helm charts are deployed by ArgoCD from a GitOps repository. PostgreSQL, Kafka and Linux. This is representative rather than exhaustive. Our platform team runs the deployment platform on its own tooling, in its own repositories, so a real part of this role is integrating cleanly across that boundary and telling them what our application developers need.

You do not need experience with every technology in our environment. We hire for competencies over pedigree, so if you have built similar systems and learn quickly, we encourage you to apply.

Minimum Work Experience: 5+ years in platform engineering, developer experience, infrastructure or reliability engineering

Minimum Education: Bachelor's in Computer Science or a related discipline, or equivalent practical experience

Benefits and Perks of working for Cboe Global Markets

We value the total wellbeing of our people – including health, financial, personal and social wellness. We believe standard benefits like health insurance and fair pay are a given at any organization. Still, you should know we offer:

Fair and competitive salary and incentive compensation packages with an upside for overachievement

Generous paid time off, including vacation, personal days, sick days and annual community service days

Health, dental and vision benefits, including access to telemedicine and mental health services

2:1 401(k) match, up to 8% match immediately upon hire

Discounted Employee Stock Purchase Plan

Tax Savings Accounts for health, dependent and transportation

Employee referral bonus program

Volunteer opportunities to help you give back to your communities

Some of our associates’ favorite benefits and perks include:

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