Top Engineering Jobs in Chicago, IL

Lead reliability, performance, and operational excellence for large-scale ad-tech distributed systems. Design and operate monitoring, incident response, capacity planning, automation, and secure production infrastructure. Mentor engineers, influence architecture for production readiness, run on-call rotations, and drive continuous improvement of engineering operations and observability.

Manage and mentor a backend engineering team, oversee design and delivery of software and web applications, set project requirements and timelines, enforce development best practices and KPIs, manage releases, budgets, and capital projects, and drive continuous technical improvement and cross-functional collaboration.

Lead the Buyer Cloud Tier-2 engineering team to ensure platform availability, performance, and operational excellence. Own incident response, RCA, release readiness, monitoring, automation, and cross-functional coordination while balancing hands-on troubleshooting, engineering initiatives, and people management.

Manage an engineering team building and supporting a high-scale video advertising platform. Lead full SDLC activities, review designs and code, provide technical leadership, troubleshoot production issues, document technical requirements, and collaborate with global product and operations teams.

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.

Design, build, and scale low-latency ad-serving systems and data/model-driven features. Optimize algorithms and architectures for performance and cloud cost, extend observability, participate in on-call rotations, and produce runbooks and documentation.

Design, customize, and maintain C++ applications in a Linux environment. Lead releases, collaborate with stakeholders and QA, mentor junior engineers, manage documentation, track performance metrics, and participate in design and peer-programming sessions. May work variable schedules including nights and weekends.

Manage and mentor an engineering team building Buyer Cloud API and web services for DSP real-time bidding. Define requirements, timelines, and releases; enforce best practices and KPIs; drive technical improvements, manage budgets, and collaborate cross-functionally. May work nights/weekends as needed.

Build and maintain high-performance, low-latency cloud-native microservices in Go for identity resolution and audience targeting. Own features end-to-end, optimize query and data-access paths (Aerospike, Kafka, Snowflake, S3), ensure reliability with observability and CI/CD, troubleshoot production incidents, enforce data quality, and collaborate with product, SRE, QA, and data teams to evolve identity and audience-domain architecture.

Lead engineering and architecture for Snowflake-based data platforms and ingestion services supporting audience and measurement. Define strategy, SLAs/SLOs, scalability, cost optimization, cloud-native modernization, CI/CD and IaC adoption. Oversee high-volume data onboarding, normalization, hygiene, and activation workflows. Build and manage a high-performing engineering organization and budgets, partnering with product, privacy, revenue science, and partnerships.