Top Remote Reliability Engineer Jobs in Chicago, IL

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.

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.

Ensure high availability and reliability of OnePay integrations by troubleshooting distributed systems, driving root-cause analysis, enhancing observability (e.g., Splunk/New Relic), monitoring production, supporting CI/CD (Jenkins), coordinating releases, participating in on-call rotation, and implementing reliability and process improvements.

Lead development of AI-assisted reliability tooling, own incident response end-to-end, improve observability and SLO/SLI frameworks, scale single-tenant SaaS operations, mentor engineers, and reduce recurring operational toil through engineering and automation.

The role involves ensuring software reliability and performance, managing incidents, developing infrastructure automation, and mentoring junior engineers within a platform team.

Lead long-term strategy and architecture for cloud and on‑prem platform infrastructure, driving Kubernetes and multi‑cloud reliability, IaC/GitOps automation, observability, SLO/SLI/error‑budget practices, incident leadership, AI‑augmented tooling adoption, and mentorship of senior engineers to improve platform resilience and developer experience.

Lead automation and optimization of Filevine's data platform: performance tune MSSQL/Postgres, optimize Snowflake, provision infrastructure with Terraform/AWS, run stateful containers on Kubernetes, integrate AI/LLM and MCP for operational automation, manage CI/CD, capacity planning, documentation, and serve in 24/7 on-call rotation.

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.

Lead design and delivery of a reliability platform for production systems. Own quarterly goals, guide engineers through ambiguity, collaborate with PM/design/analytics, monitor and operate services (on-call), set quality and code standards, and mentor teammates. Integrate AI/LLM tooling to improve automation, debugging, and service health.

Operate and improve large-scale HPC GPU clusters for AI model training and inference. Build observability, automation, CI/CD, and incident response tooling; lead on-call rotations, ensure security/compliance, collaborate with ML engineers, and optimize capacity and costs for production ML workloads.

Ensure stability and resilience of Runpod's distributed AI platform by defining SLIs/SLOs, leading incident response, building observability and reliability tooling, automating operational workflows, and partnering with engineering teams to reduce toil and improve production readiness.

This internship role focuses on SRE skills, requiring collaboration and problem-solving in dynamic environments for Zscaler's Zero Trust Exchange team.

Lead resolution of high-severity post-sales escalations: investigate and reproduce complex networking and software issues, run customer calls, collect logs and evidence, create engineering-ready handoff packages, identify systemic patterns, and improve tooling and runbooks to raise Support's technical capability.

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

The Senior Site Reliability Engineer will lead security design and implementation for cloud infrastructures, mentor teams, and automate security solutions.

Operate and maintain AWS-hosted MERN applications and large-scale data workflows. Manage serverless and Spark-based pipelines, perform incident response and on-call duties, engineer automation to eliminate operational toil, ensure HIPAA/SOC2/HITRUST compliance, build observability and lead blameless post-mortems.

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.

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.