Top Engineering Jobs in Chicago, IL

Lead and grow a Data Foundations engineering team building high-throughput, reliable data platforms. Drive architecture and delivery for ingestion, buffering, enrichment, replication, storage, and query layers (ClickHouse, CDC, event streaming), ensure operability across SaaS/Dedicated/Self-Managed/Cells deployments, hire and coach engineers, and collaborate cross-functionally to deliver customer-facing reporting and search capabilities.

Manage a technical team focused on Git and Git-related infrastructure, balancing upstream open-source work with GitLab priorities. Drive long-horizon scalability, performance, and architectural projects while fostering technical rigor, ownership, mentoring, and strong asynchronous communication across distributed teams.

As a Cloud Cost Utilization SRE at GitLab, you'll manage cloud spending, improve tracking and optimization of cloud usage, and collaborate with finance and engineering teams to enhance cost efficiency across AWS and GCP.

Operate at Staff-level to diagnose and resolve complex customer issues, contribute production-quality code to GitLab, drive AI adoption (Duo Agent Platform), and translate field learnings into durable product improvements, guidance, and thought leadership while coordinating cross-functional teams.

Design and build tooling, workflows, and guidance to make GitLab easier to deploy, validate, and operate across cloud-native, self-managed, and ephemeral environments. Shape deployment architecture, topology, scaling principles, and platform contracts while collaborating with application, infrastructure, and delivery teams.

Build and maintain agentic workflow components and the platform requirements knowledge base to ensure features ship across GitLabs deployment targets. Implement integration surfaces (issues, MRs, design docs, CI/CD), collaborate with platform teams to translate expertise into structured requirements, and write tests, documentation, and evaluations for agentic-workflow behavior and assessment accuracy.

The Director, Enterprise Architecture & Intelligent Automation will define and govern GitLab's internal systems architecture, integration, and automation strategies to support business scaling and ensure compliance with enterprise standards.

As a Backend Engineer, you'll improve Git and Gitaly by contributing features, bug fixes, and performance improvements, collaborating with the open source community, and participating in architectural discussions.

Design, build, and maintain People systems automations and integrations (Workato, Workday, Greenhouse, Slack) using production-quality code. Improve CI/CD, reliability, observability, and AI-driven automation (Claude, MCP). Serve as technical lead for People Technology, partner with stakeholders, and drive scalable, maintainable automation solutions.

Lead a team of Solutions Architects to support enterprise customers, drive technical evaluations, and promote successful adoption of the GitLab platform. Coach and mentor team members while ensuring alignment with sales and product management.