As a Senior SRE at CME Group, you aren't just maintaining systems; you are architecting the future of global financial resilience. You will operate at the precise intersection of high-scale software engineering and visionary systems design, ensuring our Google Cloud Platform (GCP) ecosystem is resilient-by-design.
What You’ll GetA 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.
Learn more about our career opportunities here.
What You’ll DoEngineer Resilience: Architect ultra-high reliability and fault tolerance for mission-critical clearing systems operating under the world’s most stringent regulatory demands.
Eliminate Toil: Eradicate operational friction by driving radical automation across the system lifecycle, implementing self-healing solutions that preemptively neutralize incidents.
Collaborative Building: Partner with development teams to bake SRE principles directly into the SDLC, ensuring high-volume financial applications are robust from the first line of code.
Master Observability: Champion cutting-edge observability and performance testing standards using OpenTelemetry and Prometheus to diagnose complex bottlenecks before they impact the market.
Strategic Leadership: Navigate complex environment deployments and release cycles, setting the gold standard for design patterns and governance across the portfolio.
Cloud Mastery: Deep hands-on experience deploying IaaS and PaaS solutions, specifically within Google Cloud Platform (GCP).
Polyglot Engineering: Proficiency in Java, Python, and Go. A background in Typescript or Rust is a significant advantage for our evolving stack.
Infrastructure as Code: Expert-level command of Terraform and configuration management tools like Chef to maintain immutable infrastructure.
Systems Fluency: A rigorous understanding of both Linux and Windows internals, including performance tuning and kernel-level troubleshooting.
Security & Compliance Mindset: The ability to weave security and regulatory frameworks into a high-speed CI/CD pipeline without sacrificing velocity.
Methodical Problem Solving: A disciplined approach to root cause analysis and a proven ability to mentor others in the SRE mindset.
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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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.
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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.
