Top Reliability Engineer Jobs in Chicago, IL

Lead incident response and reliability improvements for iManage Cloud. Triage large-scale production issues, build observability and automation, run postmortems, partner with product and engineering, and proactively detect and eliminate systemic problems to improve uptime and customer experience.

Design, deploy, automate, and support large-scale cloud network infrastructure across AWS, Azure, and GCP. Manage firewalls, Kubernetes networking, VPNs, DNS, BGP, monitoring, infrastructure as code, and network performance. Lead technical roadmaps, design reviews, troubleshooting, engineer onboarding, and team direction while participating in on-call support and occasional travel.

Support and improve reliability, scalability, and performance of large-scale databases across cloud and on-prem. Build automation, Kubernetes operators, GitOps workflows, and tooling in Go or Python; implement observability, capacity planning, failover, backups, schema migrations, and self-healing systems; partner with application teams and leverage AI to improve operations and engineering productivity.

Lead reliability, scalability, and operational excellence of large-scale database platforms across cloud and on-prem. Build automation-first database infrastructure (Kubernetes operators, IaC, GitOps), drive monitoring/SLOs, incident leadership, performance and cost optimization, and partner with application teams on safe schema/migration practices. Mentor engineers and evaluate AI-assisted workflows to improve productivity and reliability.

Lead technical strategy and implementation for Redfin's production databases and storage. Architect, scale, and support cloud database/storage solutions (self-managed and AWS managed), drive reliability, observability, backup/recovery, DR planning, incident response and root cause analysis, mentor engineers, and participate in on-call rotation.

Lead operational reliability and platform enablement for Databricks: build monitoring, CI/CD, deployment standards, compute and job policies, observability, runbooks, and governance to support secure, cost-aware, production data workloads across regulated environments. Mentor engineers and align platform with cloud/infrastructure and compliance requirements.

Join the SRE team to design, deploy, and operate resilient cloud infrastructure. Recommend solutions, automate workflows, configure Terraform and CI, implement monitoring and alerts, and support developers and users.

As a Senior Site Reliability Engineer, you'll design and build complex systems, support Atlas platform operations, automate processes, and ensure high availability of services.

Define tastytrade’s SRE practice, including customer-focused SLOs, error budgets, burn-rate alerts, observability standards, and production readiness reviews. Embed reliability patterns in Ruby, Java, and Elixir services running on HashiCorp Nomad. Extend Prometheus, Honeycomb, and OpenTelemetry observability; conduct fault-injection and tabletop exercises; strengthen on-call and incident-review processes; and mentor engineering teams in reliability practices.

Develop and maintain Kubernetes runtime environments, support developers, resolve critical issues, and participate in on-call rotations for production systems.

Lead the SRE function for NinjaTrader’s trading platform, ensuring availability, scalability, performance, and 99.95% uptime. Responsibilities include managing Kubernetes services, resolving production incidents, participating in a 12x7 on-call rotation, automating deployments and operational tasks, designing monitoring and alerting systems, establishing SLIs/SLOs, using Terraform for infrastructure automation, and implementing cloud security and compliance practices. The role also mentors engineers and collaborates cross-functionally on reliable platform delivery.

Responsible for ensuring reliability, scalability, and performance of data platforms. Design monitoring and alerting, automate deployments and recovery, optimize storage and query performance, troubleshoot incidents, plan capacity and scaling, document operations, enforce security/compliance, and collaborate with data engineering, product, and data science teams to maintain high availability of large-scale data systems.

Lead technical ownership and resolution of complex production issues; coordinate cross-functional incident response; troubleshoot C#/.NET and JavaScript systems; analyze logs/metrics (Splunk, New Relic); drive reliability, observability, and customer-first improvements while mentoring teams.

Performs reliability and maintainability engineering for avionics mission systems. Responsibilities include managing FRACAS, documenting and trending failure data, conducting root-cause and corrective-action investigations, performing reliability predictions, and analyzing FMECA and MTTR. The role supports subsystem reliability requirements and serves as an individual contributor and deliverable lead within a multidisciplinary engineering team.

Leads observability engineering for critical customer journeys, defining SLIs, SLOs, error budgets, dashboards, alerts, synthetic monitoring, and telemetry standards. Partners with product, engineering, SRE, operations, and business teams to improve production readiness and service reliability. Analyzes incidents, telemetry, alert performance, and customer impact to identify gaps, reduce alert fatigue, and drive continuous improvement. Provides technical leadership and mentorship across observability practices.

Design, build, and scale cloud-native infrastructure with automation-first approach. Develop Terraform modules, Helm charts, Istio routing, observability (Prometheus/Grafana/Datadog), maintain GCP databases, improve CI/CD, and use AI agents to automate and operationalize reliability and developer experience.

The Staff Reliability Engineer will enhance data platform reliability through automation, incident management, and observability in a hybrid work setting.

Independently execute small-to-medium reliability projects, write maintainable code, triage and resolve incidents, remove operational toil, maintain cloud infrastructure, implement observability and SLOs, use enterprise-authorized AI for troubleshooting and post-incident analysis, and collaborate across teams to improve reliability and CI/CD practices.

The Senior Site Reliability Engineer will focus on automating infrastructure, enhancing cloud resilience, supporting deployments, and mentoring teams in reliability best practices, while participating in on-call rotations.

Own Garner’s cloud reliability strategy across AWS and Kubernetes, including SLOs, observability, incident response, infrastructure automation, cost optimization, and security compliance. Lead complex incident resolution, architect Terraform-based infrastructure, establish deployment and monitoring standards, mentor engineers, and use AI tools to automate operational work. Support high-scale AI/ML workloads while setting technical direction for platform reliability and production quality.

Lead individual-contributor supporting product supportability, reliability and specialty engineering for avionic mission systems. Perform LORA, LCCA, provisioning/logistics data, packaging, manpower and sparing analyses; support reliability/maintainability predictions, FMECA, testability, human factors and system safety; present supportability at design reviews and coordinate systems engineering tasks and technical budgets.

Lead SRE efforts for DFIN SaaS: ensure availability, performance, scalability, and automation. Implement monitoring, CI/CD, IaC, container orchestration, AI-enhanced observability, incident response, RCA, and runbook automation while collaborating across engineering teams.

Lead the design and roadmap for global Active Directory and identity infrastructure, implement Identity-as-Code and GitOps automation, own incident escalation and observability, define delegation/tiered administration, integrate applications with Okta and cloud identity, mentor teams, and publish identity architecture and security best practices.

Own reliability, performance, and scalability of Postgres and ClickHouse databases. Build scalable data pipelines, design analytical schemas and DBT models, migrate data to ClickHouse, implement data quality checks, eliminate duplicates, and manage database infrastructure via IaC.

As a Senior DevOps / Platform Reliability Engineer, you will manage CI/CD pipelines, automate infrastructure, operate Kubernetes, and enhance observability while ensuring security and compliance for enterprise systems.