Top Remote Reliability Engineer Jobs in Chicago, IL

Own the reliability, performance, architecture, and lifecycle of heterogeneous database platforms. Design and operate relational, NoSQL, caching, time-series, and warehouse systems; improve provisioning, developer tooling, CI/CD, backups, disaster recovery, security, and performance. Influence architecture and product decisions, lead migrations and upgrades, troubleshoot developer and production environments, and establish platform standards, documentation, and regulatory traceability.

Architects and optimizes high-volume database platforms supporting trading applications. Responsibilities include MySQL schema design, SQL and query optimization, migrations, scalability, reliability, observability, production issue resolution, developer tooling, and database architecture. The role partners with engineering and platform teams, leads technical initiatives, establishes database best practices, mentors engineers, and uses Google Cloud services to improve performance, resilience, and operational efficiency.

The Reliability Engineer develops reliability, availability, and maintainability strategies for defense systems and equipment. Responsibilities include supportability analysis, risk assessment, asset criticality ranking, failure and performance analysis, reliability metrics monitoring, root cause analysis, FMEA, fault-tree analysis, mitigation planning, maintenance optimization, and participation in design reviews. The role supports U.S. Department of Defense customers and requires collaboration with maintenance, operations, and engineering teams.

Own the durability, recoverability, performance, and security of a production PostgreSQL/RDS fleet supporting a live trading platform. Lead replication, failover, backup and restore, disaster-recovery drills, data lifecycle management, access control, encryption, and database observability. Investigate engine-level performance issues including WAL contention, replica lag, bloat, and locking. Build infrastructure and AI-assisted operational tooling while documenting runbooks and reliability decisions.

Designs and operates Redwood’s internal engineering platform, including cloud infrastructure, Kubernetes, Terraform, Helm, GitOps, CI/CD, observability, and developer self-service capabilities. The role improves reliability, security, scalability, incident response, operational readiness, and cloud efficiency through automation and cross-functional collaboration with engineering, architecture, security, data, and MLOps teams.

Own and modernize Domino's Tempest scale-testing platform; build repeatable automated validation, sizing guidance, and cloud-scale test automation; partner with platform teams to enable multi-cloud scale testing and improve test reliability and reporting.

Leads architecture, modernization, optimization, and reliability initiatives for mainframe CICS, MQ, and z/OS Connect environments. Provides technical direction across development and operations teams, establishes governance and change processes, tunes performance using telemetry, resolves incidents, and develops modernization roadmaps. Collaborates with stakeholders and enterprise architects to deliver secure, scalable, high-availability solutions while evaluating automation, cloud integration, and AI technologies.

Provide technical direction for GitLab Dedicated, a managed single-tenant SaaS platform. Lead architecture and transformation across resilience, failover, tenant orchestration, change management, automation, and platform integrations. Identify systemic reliability and scalability risks, establish reusable platform patterns, strengthen service ownership, and guide cross-team technical decisions. Mentor senior engineers and advance engineering excellence across the organization.

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.

Develop, monitor, and maintain distributed production systems and AWS-based microservices infrastructure. Build automation, tooling, and repeatable processes that improve uptime, scalability, security, and operational efficiency. Support product engineering teams with performance, scaling, incident diagnosis, and production debugging. Analyze and tune systems, code, and networking while participating in on-call operations and blameless post-mortems.

Own reliability, scalability, security, observability, and incident response for production applications across AWS and on-premises DoD environments. Build monitoring and alerting, define SLIs and SLOs, lead post-incident reviews, automate infrastructure with Terraform and Ansible, operate Kubernetes clusters, embed RMF and STIG controls, reduce operational toil, and support secure air-gapped deployments.

Manage AWS and GCP cloud environments, scale infrastructure globally, shape technical architecture, and build reliable CI/CD pipelines. Automate security and compliance controls, improve infrastructure performance, and develop systems interacting with smart contracts across multiple blockchains. The role requires Terraform, shell scripting, GitHub Actions, Docker, production cloud operations, and observability experience, with Kubernetes, networking, and fintech compliance knowledge preferred.

Own and improve the reliability of Kintsugi’s AWS and managed Kubernetes infrastructure. Build automation, internal tools, observability, CI/CD pipelines, and infrastructure-as-code workflows while reducing operational toil. Lead incident response, reliability architecture, developer enablement, cost optimization, security, compliance, and disaster recovery efforts. Work agent-first and partner with Platform Engineering, Product, QA, and software teams to deliver scalable, secure systems.

Own the operational health, observability, reliability, and failover of AI model providers and endpoints. Build SLO monitoring, canaries, quality regression detection, automated provider-operations tooling, and load-testing systems. Lead incident response, communicate with external providers, produce reliability scorecards, and drive postmortems and corrective actions. Support capacity planning and launch readiness for high-volume LLM inference traffic.

Design and improve observability (monitoring, logging, tracing, SLIs/SLOs), build automation and CI/CD, lead incident response and reliability improvements, mentor SREs, run on-call, and apply AI/ML to operational signals to forecast and reduce risks.

Own the reliability, availability, security, and observability of Tradeweb’s global AWS platform. Responsibilities include infrastructure-as-code automation, monitoring, SLO development, incident triage and resolution, performance analysis, architecture collaboration, and regular on-call support. The role requires cloud-native engineering, scripting, networking, Linux/Unix, security, and reliability expertise while contributing to an Agile engineering organization.

Owns production reliability for a B2B SaaS platform, including SLOs, error budgets, observability, alerting, incident response, recovery exercises, performance and capacity engineering, load testing, disaster recovery, and production readiness. The role writes automation and production code, leads incidents, coaches engineering teams, and improves reliability across Kubernetes, Azure, databases, messaging, and service infrastructure.

Performs site reliability engineering for large-scale cloud infrastructure, focusing on application and network performance, reliability, security, scalability, and capacity. Deploys highly available systems, automates cloud service deployments, monitors and troubleshoots services, analyzes logs and events, maintains SLAs, and resolves infrastructure issues. The role requires expertise in microservices, container orchestration, cloud migration, deployment automation, and multiple DevOps technologies.

Analyzes and resolves availability and performance issues in large-scale production and lab environments. Develops automation, monitoring, alerting, log analysis, debugging tools, and systems programming solutions. Collaborates with software development and engineering teams on CI/CD, platform architecture, incident resolution, and operational best practices within an agile SDLC.

Lead reliability and observability efforts across the org: design and maintain Kubernetes and AWS infrastructure, build CI/CD pipelines, drive IaC standards (Terraform/Crossplane), partner with 16+ teams to roll out tools and processes, participate in on-call rotation and incident response, and use AI tools to accelerate work.

Develop and operate Akamai’s Linux-based cloud infrastructure, including bare-metal and virtual machine platforms, kernels, operating systems, and KVM/QEMU virtualization. Build software, automation, observability, and infrastructure enhancements at scale; troubleshoot complex distributed-system issues; collaborate across engineering and operations; mentor team members; and participate in on-call service restoration.

Own production reliability and infrastructure operations for the GrayKey cloud platform. Responsibilities include AWS monitoring, incident response, vulnerability remediation, networking, IAM and Okta administration, EKS and Argo CD operations, backups, recovery testing, Terraform changes, cost optimization, automation, documentation, and compliance support. The role requires independent work during Pacific and Mountain time-zone hours and involves less than 5% travel.

The Linux Systems Administrator will maintain and troubleshoot Linux systems, support network services, and work on systems integration while collaborating with infrastructure teams.

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.

Leads SRE and cloud operations for highly available, scalable platforms and AI-powered solutions. Designs AWS infrastructure, Kubernetes environments, CI/CD pipelines, Infrastructure as Code, observability, automation, and incident response processes. Develops AI-driven operational capabilities, supports MLOps and model lifecycle management, establishes reliability metrics and SLOs, and mentors engineering teams. Partners with software, data, machine learning, security, and product teams to improve platform performance, resilience, and operational excellence.