Top Platform Engineer Jobs in Chicago, IL

Design, develop, and maintain secure Microsoft Power Platform solutions for federal and DoD customers. Build Canvas and Model-Driven Power Apps, Power Automate workflows, Dataverse data models, Power BI reports, integrations, and automated deployments. Support ALM, ETL, troubleshooting, documentation, security, and performance. Gather requirements and collaborate with technical and program stakeholders while following federal security and configuration-management practices.

Leads end-to-end development of Microsoft Power Platform solutions in regulated federal environments. Designs Power Apps, Power Automate workflows, Power BI models, Dataverse architectures, security roles, integrations, and RPA solutions. Partners with federal stakeholders to gather requirements, present technical solutions, and document system architectures. The role requires Power Platform experience in GCC High, IL5, GovCloud, or comparable environments, plus eligibility for a Secret clearance.

Provide technical leadership for foundational platform services: architect, build, and operate distributed cloud-native systems; drive cross-team architecture and standards; mentor engineers; lead incident responses; introduce AI-assisted engineering practices to improve productivity, reliability, and developer experience.

Design, implement, optimize, and maintain scalable hybrid multi-cloud Kubernetes platforms operating at massive scale. Integrate open-source technologies, improve platform reliability, provide technical direction, mentor engineers, and participate in on-call support. The role requires expertise managing large Kubernetes clusters, observability tools, Linux environments, public clouds, custom data centers, and AI-enabled workflow improvements.

Design, administer, optimize, and govern an enterprise Databricks Lakehouse Platform. Responsibilities include managing workspaces, Unity Catalog, compute, workflows, data pipelines, security controls, observability, performance, cost optimization, CI/CD, infrastructure automation, disaster recovery, and platform upgrades. The role also supports audits, compliance, troubleshooting, documentation, technical standards, and mentorship while integrating Databricks with enterprise data, business intelligence, and AI/ML environments.

Build and lead a greenfield cloud platform supporting application, data, and AI workloads. Responsibilities include managing Terraform infrastructure, production EKS clusters, Helm deployments, CI/CD pipelines, security controls, observability, cloud cost allocation, and developer golden paths. The role establishes engineering standards, supports regulated-data compliance, partners across engineering teams, reviews infrastructure changes, mentors engineers, and writes production code while ensuring reliable, secure, and cost-effective service delivery.

Build and maintain cloud-native production platforms, automate infrastructure and deployment environments, and bridge application development with production teams. Responsibilities include validating implementations, independently solving technical problems, developing small components, estimating work, debugging systems, and promoting DevOps, DevSecOps, CI/CD, infrastructure-as-code, containerization, and security best practices. The role requires Kubernetes and cloud experience, programming and shell scripting knowledge, YAML proficiency, cross-functional collaboration, and U.S. citizenship.

Design, build, and run cloud-based automated test frameworks and scripts for React/Node applications. Configure CI/CD pipelines, test environments, and data sets; validate APIs and containerized apps; collaborate with manual testers and development teams using Agile/DevSecOps practices.

Develop and maintain Microsoft Power Platform solutions for CDC mission programs. Responsibilities include designing solution architectures and data models, building Power Apps and Power Automate workflows, configuring Dataverse, modernizing legacy applications, integrating APIs and Azure services, reviewing technical solutions, supporting Agile delivery and testing, troubleshooting defects, documenting deployments, and maintaining production systems. The role also ensures federal security, privacy, governance, and Section 508 accessibility compliance.

Design, build, deploy, and operate Node.js and TypeScript backend services supporting account onboarding, identity verification, agreements, and funding. Own event-driven workflows, asynchronous processing, job orchestration, integrations, reliability, monitoring, and operational tooling. Develop scalable services on Google Cloud Platform and Kubernetes, support expansion into new markets, coordinate technical direction, and mentor engineers. Ensure correctness through idempotency, retries, reconciliation, and resilient handling of partial failures.

Own and evolve AWS cloud infrastructure supporting a financial and hospitality technology platform. Design highly available systems, deployment pipelines, observability, security controls, and infrastructure migrations. Lead incident response, reliability planning, capacity management, and root-cause analysis while participating in on-call rotations. Partner with application engineers, establish infrastructure standards, and mentor platform engineers as the organization scales.

Lead frontend development for Coinbase identity experiences including login, signup, OAuth, account security, and multi-factor authentication. Own projects from design through deployment and monitoring, guide Native versus Webview architecture, author technical designs, resolve systemic technical debt, lead on-call and incident response, and mentor engineers.

Build and operate reusable cloud data-platform infrastructure across engineering teams. Design, secure, monitor, optimize, and maintain relational, NoSQL, columnar, streaming, and analytical data systems. Establish database, schema, access, backup, recovery, privacy, and observability standards; improve infrastructure-as-code and operational tooling; and guide datastore selection and architecture. Lead cross-team initiatives, reduce technical debt, mentor senior engineers, document best practices, and influence technical strategy without direct management authority.

Own end-to-end delivery of platform initiatives, designing scalable infrastructure, APIs, gateways, backend services, self-service tooling, and automation. Evaluate and implement AI agents and workflows within developer tooling, improve reliability and engineering productivity, lead technical design reviews, mentor engineers, and influence cross-functional stakeholders. The role requires operating complex production systems across Ruby/Rails, Python, Rust, React/TypeScript, GraphQL, and cloud infrastructure.

Operate and maintain the Performance Team's data platform: ensure reliability, correctness, and performance of ETLs and pipelines; implement quality checks, alerting, runbooks, and automation; troubleshoot GitLab CI/CD and resource bottlenecks; continuously tune workloads for efficiency.

Build and manage Tempo’s infrastructure stack, improve developer velocity and experience, maintain blockchain, validator, and explorer reliability, and support enterprise validator onboarding. The role involves production bare-metal and cloud environments, Kubernetes, infrastructure as code, observability, Linux, networking, security hardening, troubleshooting, and tooling development using Rust, Go, or Python.

Develop, test, deploy, and maintain Microsoft Power Platform solutions for federal mission-critical systems. Build Canvas Apps, Model-Driven Apps, Power Pages, Dataverse models, and Power Automate workflows. Migrate legacy .NET, C#, and JavaScript applications, support integrations and testing, troubleshoot defects, document solutions, and assist with production operations. Collaborate within Agile/Scrum teams while meeting federal security, privacy, and Section 508 accessibility requirements.

Build and operate automated compute-capacity systems across regions, including forecasting, provisioning, reservations, fleet reconciliation, drift detection, observability, alerting, and cost optimization. Support demand planning for customer commitments, migrations, and new regions. Contribute to right-sizing, autoscaling, workload consolidation, capacity incident response, and post-incident improvements while coordinating with engineering and finance stakeholders.

Own and lead the technical direction of a major codebase section while designing, building, testing, documenting, and maintaining secure, scalable API-based decisioning products. Partner with product, engineering, and security teams on agile delivery, troubleshoot production issues, meet SLA requirements, and participate in an on-call rotation.

Designs, builds, operates, and supports backend services powering an enterprise AI platform. Responsibilities include developing APIs, AI gateway and orchestration capabilities, entitlements, tenancy models, data access patterns, integrations, and platform services. The engineer owns services throughout design, implementation, testing, deployment, monitoring, reliability, and support while collaborating with client product, engineering, data, and platform stakeholders.

Design and build a scalable Internal Developer Platform (IDP) using Kubernetes and cloud-native services, improve CI/CD and DX, enforce platform governance and security, lead MLOps/LLM infrastructure, mentor engineers, and align platform roadmap with product goals.

Own the design, development, and automation of Coinbase’s routing infrastructure connecting services to Kubernetes backends. Build scalable capabilities using Envoy, Istio, Ambient Mesh, and SPIFFE; improve routing latency, reliability, and performance; enhance developer tooling with responsible AI; and collaborate with security, reliability, and observability teams to resolve complex distributed-systems issues.

Design, develop, test, deploy, and support enterprise Microsoft Power Platform solutions using Power Apps, Power Automate, Power BI, and Dataverse. Integrate solutions with Microsoft 365, SharePoint, Azure services, Azure SQL, and external data sources. Gather requirements, document solutions, perform testing, troubleshoot issues, and provide technical leadership on governance and the Power Platform Center of Excellence. Mentor developers and support ongoing platform enhancements.

Deploys and maintains UDS and Kubernetes platforms in secure bare-metal environments. Responsibilities include configuring GPU compute, storage, and networking; managing infrastructure as code; supporting secure software delivery; troubleshooting platform services; and collaborating with mission stakeholders and engineering teams. The role is remote in the United States and requires U.S. citizenship, with 15–25% travel.

Designs and implements scalable, secure platform infrastructure across AWS, on-premises, and hybrid environments. Builds reusable Terraform modules, automation, CI/CD pipelines, and Policy as Code capabilities. Translates CMMC and enterprise security requirements into practical controls, including network segmentation, identity integration, logging, and monitoring. Partners with security and GRC teams, evaluates emerging technologies, mentors engineers, and drives platform standards through hands-on implementation.