Optiver
Senior Production Software Engineer
$200K
Chicago, Illinois, United States · Senior · Full-time · Posted May 1, 2026
- Education
- Bachelor’s degree in CS or related technical field
About the job
Builds and operates infrastructure, deployment pipelines, monitoring, and automation to make Optiver’s trading production environment safer, more reliable, and easier to change.
What you'll do
- Design and build deployment pipelines, from validation through rollout and verification.
- Build and maintain monitoring infrastructure and develop tooling and automation for operational reliability.
- Take operational ownership of production subsystems; collaborate across teams and mentor junior engineers.
What they ask for
- Bachelor’s degree in CS or a related technical field.
- Strong programming ability, with Python at a minimum, and knowledge of software engineering principles.
- Broad understanding of the technology stack, including server hardware, networking, Linux, databases, web servers, and applications.
- Experience with CI/CD tooling and metrics and observability platforms.
Nice to have
- Golang or Rust; experience with technologies such as Ansible, Django, FastAPI, Flask, Jenkins, Hashicorp Vault, Docker/Podman, and Kubernetes.
- Previous experience in production management.
Pay
$200,000 — $200,000 USD (base salary)
Tools
Python, Golang, Rust, Linux, Ansible, Jenkins, Docker/Podman, Kubernetes
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