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Staff Engineer Platform Engineering Jobs in Chicago, IL, US
21 staff engineer platform engineering jobs from 17 companies hiring in Chicago, IL, US.
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Staff Engineer - Platform Engineering
San Francisco or Scottsdale or Chicago or New York City
$174k-$223k/yr HybridFull Time
8+ YOE8+ years in software/platform engineering; distributed systems; Kubernetes, Docker, ECS; CI/CD; Terraform/CloudFormation; Java/Python/Go; AWS or similar.
Kubernetes, Docker, ECS, Terraform, CloudFormation, Java, Python, Go, AWS
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Staff Platform Engineer
Chicago, Illinois, United States
$100k-$140k/yr HybridFull Time
5+ YOE5-7 years in DevOps/system engineering; scripting (Python/Bash); Unix/Linux; OpenStack and AWS; configuration management (Chef/Puppet/Ansible); containers (Docker/Kubernetes); CI/CD; security automation.
Amazon Web Services, Google Cloud, OpenStack, Docker, Kubernetes, Chef, Puppet, Ansible, Nginx, Git, Jenkins, ELK, Splunk, FISMA, NIST, FIPS
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Senior Staff Engineer, API Platform (DET)
San Francisco or Chicago or New York City or Atlanta or Bellevue
$117k-$260k/yr HybridFull Time
5+ YOE5+ years in software development; Bachelor's or Master's in CS/Engineering; proficient in Java, Python, or JavaScript; AWS infra design; IaC; CI/CD; AI tooling experience; strong problem-solving and collaboration skills.
Java, Python, JavaScript, AWS, Lambda, ECS, RDS, API Gateway, Terraform, GitHub Actions, GitLab, CI/CD, Docker, Kubernetes
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Senior/Staff Frontend Platform Engineer
Chicago, Illinois, United States
$160k-$180k/yr HybridFull Time
5+ YOE5+ years software engineering; 3+ years technical leadership; 3+ years TypeScript; U.S. work authorization; strong frontend and platform experience.
Node.js, TypeScript, MongoDB, GitHub Workflows, React, Angular, Vue
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Staff Software Engineer, Data Platform
San Francisco or Miami or Atlanta or Salt Lake City or Phoenix or Washington DC or Los Angeles or Seattle or Chicago or Boston or Austin or New York City
$195k-$258k/yr RemoteFull Time
7+ YOEExperience building data-intensive systems, scalable data pipelines, data governance; strong collaboration; cloud-native data platforms.
Cloud platforms, Data pipelines, ETL/ELT, SQL, Data governance
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Staff Software Engineer, Platform
Elmhurst, Illinois, United States
$155k-$175k/yr HybridFull Time
10+ YOE10+ years building and operating production systems; deep .NET expertise; Azure production experience; API design and authentication/identity; distributed systems and data architecture.
C#, ASP.NET Core, Azure, Flutter, React, OAuth/OIDC, RBAC, SQL, NoSQL
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Cloud Data Platform Engineering Lead
Chicago, Illinois, United States
$139k-$231k/yr HybridFull Time
10+ YOESenior Staff Engineer with 10+ years in software/data engineering; 5+ years designing large-scale GCP architectures; expert in Java and Python; Kubernetes, Terraform, CI/CD; data governance and cost optimization.
Google Cloud Platform, BigQuery, Dataflow, Cloud Storage, Pub/Sub, Vertex AI, Kubernetes, Terraform, Argo Workflows, KCC, CI/CD, Java, Python, Looker, Tableau, Apache Spark, Apache Flink, GKE, GCS, Cloud SQL, IAM, KMS
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Staff Site Reliability Engineer
Chicago or Reston or Crum Lynne or Greenwood Village or Boca Raton or White Plains
$113k-$188k/yr HybridFull Time
5+ YOE5+ years in cloud/SRE/Platform engineering; expert in GCP, Kubernetes, CI/CD, monitoring; on-call; architectural leadership; IaC; scripting; security; capacity planning.
Google Cloud Platform, Kubernetes, CI/CD, Datadog, Prometheus, Grafana, PagerDuty, Linux, PostgreSQL, MySQL, Redis, Terraform, Pulumi, Python, Bash, Go, Security architecture, IaC tooling
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Staff Site Reliability Engineer - Kubernetes
Bellevue or Chicago or New York or Washington
$194k-$267k/yr HybridFull Time
5+ YOE5+ years in Kubernetes/AWS; Kubernetes platform creation and management; Helm, Terraform, CI/CD automation; strong scripting; security and cost optimization.
Kubernetes, Helm, Terraform, AWS, Karpenter, Istio, Jenkins, GitLab, CircleCI, Ansible, Spinnaker, Prometheus, Grafana, CloudWatch, ELK, Python, Bash, Go
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Staff Software Engineer - Java Cloud (Health100 Platform)
Woonsocket or Boston or Scottsdale or Hartford or Richardson or Chicago
$118k-$284k/yr HybridFull Time
7+ YOE7+ years Java development; REST APIs/microservices; cloud (GCP/Azure); CI/CD and TDD; mentorship; strong ownership.
Java, Spring, Spring Boot, REST, Cloud - GCP/Azure, CI/CD, TDD, Kafka, Pub/Sub
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Senior Staff AI Data Engineer - Hybrid
Hartford or Danbury or Chicago or Columbus or Charlotte
$135k-$203k/yr HybridFull Time
8+ YOE8+ years data engineering; GenAI; Python; Snowflake; ETL/ELT; CI/CD; RAG pipelines; cloud platforms.
Python, Snowflake, ETL/ELT, CI/CD, AWS, S3, LangChain, LangGraph, PyTorch, TensorFlow
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Staff AI Systems Engineer
United States or New York City or Boston or Chicago or Denver or Los Angeles or San Francisco or Austin
$200k-$225k/yr RemoteFull Time
5+ YOE5+ years building and shipping ML systems; strong backend Python/JS; experience with LLM agents, ML platforms, cloud infra; observability and evals; remote work capable.
LangChain, LangGraph, vLLM, OpenAI API, Gemini API, Anthropic API, MCP, Postgres, Redis, Prometheus, Grafana, OpenTelemetry, LangSmith, Langfuse, TensorRT, PyTorch, Kubernetes, Terraform, Express, FastAPI, REST, SSE, JWT, AWS
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Staff Software Engineer - Web (Hybrid)
Oak Brook, Illinois, United States
$103k-$193k/yr HybridFull Time
7+ YOE7+ years web app experience; ownership of front-end platform features; Agile/Scrum; RESTful APIs; offshore coordination; JavaScript/TypeScript/HTML/CSS; Angular.
JavaScript, TypeScript, HTML, CSS, Angular, REST, Git, CI/CD
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Staff Full Stack Engineer, GTM Systems
Austin or Chicago or Washington or New York
$214k-$245k/yr HybridFull Time
8+ YOE8+ years of full-stack software engineering; React/TypeScript; backend/DB; AI tooling and LLMs; internal platforms; deployment platforms.
React, TypeScript, Next.js, Python, FastAPI, PostgreSQL, Supabase, Vercel, OpenAI API, GitHub Copilot
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Senior Staff Software Engineer - Data Science
Westchester, Illinois, United States
$143k-$178k/yr HybridFull Time
8+ YOE8+ years in production ML, Python/SQL, NLP/Computer Vision, LangChain-like AI agent tech, ML lifecycle, distributed computing, cloud platforms, and leadership.
Python, SQL, scikit-learn, PyTorch, TensorFlow, pandas, NumPy, LangChain, LangGraph, Spark, Dask, AWS, Azure, GCP
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Staff Software Development Engineer - Front End
Chicago or New York
OnsiteFull Time
15+ YOE15+ years of frontend/software engineering, FinTech focus, real-time/event-driven architectures, strong communication, unit testing, React/Angular/TypeScript, cloud platforms.
React, Angular, TypeScript, Jest, Cypress, Webpack, Rollup, AWS, GCP, Azure, Docker, Kubernetes
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Sr. Staff AI/ML Engineer
Portland or San Francisco or Chicago or Boston or Seattle or Dallas
$220k-$256k/yr RemoteFull Time
12+ YOELead development of production AI systems; 12+ years in software/ML; Python, PyTorch/TF; cloud platforms; IaC; CI/CD; Bachelor's (Master preferred).
Python, PyTorch, TensorFlow, NumPy, Pandas, scikit-learn, LangChain, ADK, AWS, Azure, GCP, Terraform, GitHub Actions
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Hybrid: 17Remote: 3Onsite: 1