CME Group is seeking a SRE I to begin their career in our Customer portfolio. This is an entry-level opportunity to learn how to build, operate, and scale the systems behind CME’s Customer and Clearing platform. Our systems deliver an exceptional combination of low-latency performance and rock-solid reliability, and this role offers a unique chance to learn from the ground up.
The successful candidate will be mentored by senior engineers and will be trained on how we observe, monitor, automate, and improve Production service reliability in a supportive team environment.
Key Responsibilities:
- Learn from and work alongside senior engineers to assist with building out observability, monitoring, and alerting for key services.
- Shadow senior engineers as they partner with product teams to understand the reliability and scalability needs for new features.
- Write and maintain basic scripts and tools to help reduce toil and improve engineering velocity.
- Contribute to and learn from our culture of blameless post-mortem to drive continuous improvement.
- Assist with DR (Disaster Recovery) and systems resiliency testing.
- Support the migration of Customer and Clearing applications to Google Cloud Platform (GCP).
- After a period of training and mentorship, begin to shadow and then participate in the on-call rotation with direct support from senior engineers.
What We’re Looking for:
- A passion for technology and a strong desire to build a career in Site Reliability Engineering.
- Foundational programming/scripting skills (e.g., Python, Java, C++, Bash) demonstrated through coursework, personal projects, or internships.
- Strong problem-solving and analytical abilities with a curious mindset.
- Excellent communication and teamwork skills.
- A profound eagerness to learn and adapt in a fast-paced CME environment.
Desirable (Nice to have, not required):
- Familiarity with cloud concepts (e.g., GCP, AWS, Azure).
- Good knowledge of Linux-based systems
- Basic understanding of containerization technologies like Docker or Kubernetes.
- An interest in metrics & monitoring tools like Prometheus, Grafana, or Splunk.
- Foundational knowledge of networking concepts (HTTP, TCP/IP).
- An interest in financial technology and high-performance systems.
CME Group: Where Futures are Made
CME 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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Skills Required
- Foundational programming or scripting skills in Python, Java, C++, Bash, or similar, demonstrated through coursework, personal projects, or internships
- Passion for technology and desire to build a career in Site Reliability Engineering
- Strong problem-solving and analytical abilities
- Excellent communication and teamwork skills
- Eagerness to learn and adapt in a fast-paced environment
- Familiarity with cloud concepts such as GCP, AWS, or Azure
- Knowledge of Linux-based systems
- Understanding of Docker or Kubernetes
- Interest in Prometheus, Grafana, or Splunk
- Foundational networking knowledge, including HTTP and TCP/IP
- Interest in financial technology and high-performance systems
CME Group Compensation & Benefits Highlights
The following summarizes recurring compensation and benefits themes identified from responses generated by popular LLMs to common candidate questions about CME Group and has not been reviewed or approved by CME Group.
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Retirement Support — U.S. offerings include both a 401(k) and a company-funded cash-balance pension, strengthening long-term financial security. This dual-track structure is highlighted as a notable differentiator among private employers.
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Leave & Time Off Breadth — PTO and holiday schedules are described as generous, with ample time off and carryover commonly highlighted. This breadth of leave meaningfully enhances perceived total rewards.
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Flexible Benefits — A flexible, hybrid work model applies to many roles, increasing day-to-day usability of the package. Flexibility is framed as a standard feature rather than an exception.
CME Group Insights
What We Do
As the world's leading derivatives marketplace, CME Group (www.cmegroup.com) is where the world comes to manage risk. CME Group exchanges offer the widest range of global benchmark products across all major asset classes, including futures and options based on interest rates, equity indexes, foreign exchange, energy, agricultural commodities, metals, weather and real estate. CME Group brings buyers and sellers together through its CME Globex® electronic trading platform and its trading facilities in New York and Chicago. CME Group also operates CME Clearing, one of the world’s leading central counterparty clearing provider in the world, which offers clearing and settlement services for exchange-traded contracts, as well as for over-the-counter derivatives transactions through CME ClearPort®. These products and services ensure that businesses everywhere can substantially mitigate counterparty credit risk in both listed and over-the-counter derivatives markets.
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