Top Platform Engineer Jobs in Chicago, IL

Build and operate internal developer platforms, shared services, cloud infrastructure, delivery pipelines, and golden paths. Own reliability, security, observability, incident response, and cost optimization for production services. Shape platform architecture and engineering standards, advance AI-assisted software delivery, and mentor engineers across operating companies. The role is a hands-on principal individual contributor responsible for taking major platform capabilities from design through ongoing operation.

Lead a team building distributed microservices and full-stack cloud solutions, collaborate with product managers, mentor engineers, and deliver enterprise platforms using modern languages, container orchestration, open source databases, and AWS tooling to meet regulatory and customer needs.

Lead a portfolio of technology projects and a developer team to build distributed microservices and full-stack cloud solutions. Collaborate with product managers, mentor engineers, and deliver scalable, secure platforms using modern languages, databases, container orchestration, and AWS cloud services to meet regulatory and customer needs.

Design, implement, and maintain C++ components for a global electronic trading platform. Collaborate on system design, perform code reviews, troubleshoot production issues, and improve system stability while participating across the software development lifecycle.

Designs and owns Webflow’s foundational cloud and source-control infrastructure, including multi-account landing zones, networking, DNS, PKI, secrets, Infrastructure as Code, GitHub delivery pipelines, self-service hosting patterns, policy guardrails, observability, cost controls, and security baselines. Partners with SRE, security, and developer productivity teams to improve reliability, scalability, adoption, and performance while managing cloud vendors and tooling relationships.

Lead design and evolution of SentiLink's data platform for fraud detection. Architect scalable batch and streaming pipelines, improve reliability, performance, and observability, set engineering standards, mentor engineers, drive cross-team technical initiatives, participate in production support/on-call, and evaluate build-vs-buy and emerging technologies.

Design, build, and operate backend Go services and smart contracts that mint, burn, bridge, and reconcile wrapped assets across multiple chains. Own end-to-end delivery from smart contract deployment through API design, SLOs, and production rollout. Drive asset migration pipeline improvements, run on-call operations, build observability and runbooks, and mentor junior engineers.

Design and deliver blockchain network infrastructure and platform APIs, lead multi-quarter initiatives (chain integrations, re-architecture, data migrations), define APIs/SLOs/observability and on-call ownership, ship SDKs and platform primitives, establish data contracts, and simplify cross-chain operations to enable analytics, ML, and data engineering teams.

Lead design and implementation of the Tax platform: build scalable, fault-tolerant systems, improve extensibility, mentor engineers, drive technical strategy and roadmap, collaborate cross-functionally, improve reliability/incident response, and build AI guardrails to safely leverage agentic LLMs for tax compliance.

Lead the technical strategy for Coinbase's Data Platform, architecting data systems for AI/ML workloads and ensuring data reliability, performance, and cross-functional alignment.

Design, build, and scale backend microservices and APIs for high-volume financial and transactional systems. Implement secure integrations with payment processors and banks, develop data-driven account and transaction services, ensure data integrity and performance, and collaborate cross-functionally to deliver production-grade fintech features with strong development practices.

Operate and maintain AWS infrastructure, including EKS, EC2, RDS/Aurora, ElastiCache, S3, and IAM. Manage deployments, build reusable Terraform modules and Helm charts, maintain GitLab CI templates, troubleshoot networking, IAM, and Kubernetes issues, and improve observability and platform stability with Datadog. Partner with application teams to communicate platform standards and participate in production on-call ownership.

Lead the design, delivery, and production adoption of integrations-platform features, including SDKs, agents, job pipelines, developer tooling, and related services. Drive AI-enabled integration authoring, reliability, scalability, observability, and cross-platform support. Partner across product, platform, and customer teams to translate needs into technical solutions while providing architectural leadership, mentorship, and hands-on guidance across distributed systems and workflow orchestration.

Designs and maintains Azure, Microsoft 365, and hybrid cloud platforms, including landing zones, governance, monitoring, identity, networking, security, backup, resiliency, and cost controls. The role establishes engineering standards, automates configuration and onboarding, improves operational readiness, documents procedures, collaborates across infrastructure and security teams, and mentors engineers. Requires extensive Microsoft cloud administration and platform engineering experience.

Build and maintain secure cloud-native platforms supporting Navy application teams. Integrate, package, deploy, and operate applications across Kubernetes and UDS environments; develop infrastructure as code, CI/CD pipelines, Helm configurations, and automation. Troubleshoot application and platform issues, implement security controls and vulnerability remediation, support observability, collaborate across technical teams, and contribute to platform strategy. The role also involves mentoring engineers and supporting Kubernetes distributions including EKS and RKE2.

The Sr. Staff Platform Engineer will lead the design and development of cloud-native internal developer platforms, focusing on AWS and AI/ML integration to empower engineering teams and streamline workflows.

Build and automate cloud infrastructure across AWS using Terraform, GitLab CI/CD, Shell, and Python. Manage advanced networking, hybrid connectivity, Kubernetes/EKS, Istio, monitoring, observability, release engineering, and API platforms including Kibana, Dynatrace, and Apigee. Perform vulnerability remediation and patching while supporting security, compliance, alerting, and telemetry. Collaborate cross-functionally in fast-paced Agile/Scrum environments.

Design, implement, and maintain scalable hybrid multi-cloud Kubernetes platforms at massive scale. Ensure high reliability, integrate open-source observability tools, provide technical direction, operate large Linux environments across cloud and data centers, handle on-call duties, and mentor junior engineers.

As a Senior Software Engineer on the Data Platform team, you'll enhance the data infrastructure, develop ETL pipelines, maintain data quality, collaborate across teams, and mentor junior engineers.

Own and scale Nango’s cloud platform, including compute, networking, data infrastructure, Kubernetes, IaC, and GitOps. Lead BYOC and private-cloud deployments, productize provisioning and upgrades, establish SLOs and incident processes, operate PostgreSQL, Redis, Elasticsearch, and ClickHouse, and oversee infrastructure security and compliance. Help shape product strategy while supporting a remote-first, autonomous engineering team.

As a Senior Software Engineer, you will develop systems, enhance AI tooling, mentor team members, and oversee project management in a collaborative environment.

Build and extend SAP Commerce Cloud backend extensions, integrations, APIs, and platform capabilities for multiple brands and storefronts. Diagnose production issues independently using logs, traces, and Dynatrace, tracing problems across storefront, service, persistence, and integration layers. Contribute to architecture, code reviews, documentation, estimation, Agile delivery, testing, feature flagging, and resilient error handling.

Develop and support Power Platform and SharePoint solutions throughout the software development lifecycle. Responsibilities include requirements gathering, architecture, design, development, testing, deployment, documentation, migrations, workflow automation, dashboards, forms, end-user support, training, and stakeholder communication. The role integrates SharePoint Online with Power Apps, Power Automate, and Power Pages while coordinating multiple projects and mentoring team members.

Lead design, build, deployment, and operation of highly resilient, high-throughput configuration and publishing systems. Define long-term architecture and strategy, mentor senior engineers, diagnose and fix performance bottlenecks, and leverage AI tools to improve engineering productivity and platform capabilities.

Own performance optimization, reliability, observability, capacity modeling, and automated failover for Coinbase’s blockchain node infrastructure. Diagnose resource bottlenecks, reduce infrastructure costs, define SLOs and SLIs, support protocol upgrades, and improve node performance across distributed systems at scale. Collaborate with protocol integration, wallet, and indexer teams while applying backend programming and systems profiling expertise.