Top Reliability Engineer Jobs in Chicago, IL

Lead infrastructure resilience by implementing observability, IaC, automation, and AI-driven detection to ensure cloud and SaaS system stability. Drive tooling, alerts, self-healing, CI/CD optimization, incident triage/restore, and partner across architecture and engineering to improve performance, reliability, and cost efficiency.

Leads SRE engineering leaders and engineers while defining enterprise observability, reliability, and platform strategy across GCP, on-premise, manufacturing, distribution, and campus environments. Oversees vendor-agnostic tooling, OpenTelemetry integrations, CI/CD observability, SRE maturity models, and Agentic AI initiatives. Drives adoption of SRE practices, develops technical roadmaps, partners with senior leadership and operational teams, and maintains hands-on architectural and technical credibility.

Lead SRE work partnering with development teams to design and implement availability, scalability, observability, and automation for production systems. Build tooling, manage incident response and RCAs, optimize capacity and performance, mentor engineers, maintain runbooks, and participate in a 24x7 on-call rotation.

Lead reliability engineering for Silicon Photonics hardware: define and validate reliability models, perform MTBF/MTBCF predictions, analyze field data, direct verification testing and root-cause analysis, drive corrective actions, and mentor cross-functional teams to improve product reliability.

As a Database Reliability Engineer at ClickHouse, you'll improve reliability, manage escalation processes, support incident response, and enhance database performance while collaborating across teams.

Drive reliability qualification and production monitoring for optical communication products. Track and analyze reliability stress tests, investigate failures with cross-functional teams, implement corrective actions, maintain dashboards and reports, support NPI, and apply statistical and AI tools to generate reliability insights and improve product quality.

Own and evolve Babylist's AWS infrastructure and developer platform using Terraform and Kubernetes. Improve CI/CD reliability, support engineers across environments, define monitoring and alerting standards, lead incident response and postmortems, and shape platform architecture to scale for millions of users.

Owner of on-prem reliability and escalations: reproduce and resolve L2/L3 issues across heterogeneous Kubernetes environments, build diagnostics and automation, improve CI and e2e test stability, establish performance baselines, harden install/upgrade flows, and write tooling in Python/Go/Rust to reduce repeat incidents.

Work as an SRE embedded with product teams to improve reliability by fixing application code (primarily TypeScript), building observability (Prometheus, Loki, Grafana, Alloy), defining SLIs/SLOs, leading incident response and postmortems, automating toil, and supporting deployments across on‑prem DoD and AWS environments.

The Senior Site Reliability Engineer will enhance system reliability through infrastructure automation, support core applications, and optimize performance, collaborating with development teams on deployment processes.

The Senior Staff SRE leads reliability engineering initiatives, drives operational excellence, mentors staff, and influences architecture to enhance system reliability and performance.

Lead ownership and support of production database systems (MySQL CloudSQL and Spanner). Drive schema change processes, build automated deploy/test pipelines, implement monitoring/alerting, manage backup/recovery and DR, perform production debugging/RCA, and evaluate database features for global scalability and uptime.

As a Senior Staff Site Reliability Engineer, you will lead the SRE team, advocate best practices, ensure resilience in cloud architecture, and mentor team members.

Design, build, and operate reliable cloud infrastructure and networking (multi-account AWS, VPC, IAM). Implement IaC, CI/CD pipelines, observability (logging/metrics/alerting), automation, and reliability guardrails. Provide production support and incident response, perform root cause analysis, and collaborate with application teams to co-own system design and continuous improvement, using AI-assisted tools where appropriate.

Lead platform and infrastructure engineering: build full-stack services, design AWS/Terraform infrastructure, manage Kubernetes/Docker, implement CI/CD, improve reliability and security, mentor engineers, and drive compliance for HIPAA and SOC 2.

Lead reliability activities for photonic integrated circuits (PICs): evaluate failure modes, coordinate accelerated stress tests, develop life models from aging-data, and drive failure mode analyses across design, development, and production teams.

Lead architecture and implementation of reliability platforms and SRE practices for a production SaaS. Build self-service reliability tooling, drive AIOps automation, advance observability (monitoring, tracing, profiling), lead incident response and postmortems, mentor engineers, and embed production readiness across teams to achieve 99.99% uptime.

Own and improve production infrastructure reliability, deployments, Infrastructure-as-Code, Kubernetes environments, automation, CI/CD, monitoring, alerting, and observability. Investigate incidents, optimize system performance, maintain documentation and runbooks, and support DNS, WAF, CDN, and caching infrastructure. The role requires strong Linux administration, Bash scripting, networking, Git, and containerization skills, with independent ownership and collaboration across development and operations teams.

Design and implement scalable cloud infrastructure, monitor performance, automate processes, ensure security and compliance, and lead a DevOps team.

The Senior Site Reliability / Gitops Engineer will drive automation and collaboration within the IS team, enhancing Canonical's IT operations and services while managing infrastructure as code and cloud technologies.

As a Site Reliability / Gitops Engineer, you will automate operations, develop Infrastructure as Code, maintain core services, and collaborate on service architecture.

The Site Reliability Engineer will ensure reliable cloud operations by applying Python for infrastructure automation, managing OpenStack and Kubernetes, and practicing devsecops in a fast-paced environment.

As a Site Reliability Engineer II, you'll automate tasks, monitor AI workloads, enhance dashboards, support CI/CD processes, and collaborate with engineering teams on complex issues while participating in on-call rotations.

This role involves managing Kubernetes clusters, cloud infrastructure, and CI/CD pipelines. The engineer will enhance system reliability and efficiency while troubleshooting production issues.

Lead reliability practices across teams: embed early in projects, define SLIs/SLOs, build multi-cloud paved roads with Terraform, run on-call, drive org-wide incident maturity and tooling.