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Senior Software Engineer

project44 - Chicago, IL, United States - Hybrid - posted 2026-09-11

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Salary: USD 130,000 - 190,000 / annual

project44 is a supply chain AI platform headquartered in Chicago with a second hub in Bengaluru. The company's Decision Intelligence Platform, Movement, transforms fragmented logistics data into real-time, AI-powered insights to help global supply chains operate more efficiently. We are seeking a Senior DevOps Engineer to join our engineering team and work in a fast-paced Agile environment designing, building, and implementing best-in-class infrastructure to support our high-throughput, real-time data platform. Key Responsibilities: - Set technical direction for cloud infrastructure strategy across AWS/GCP, including compute, networking, storage, and Kubernetes-based container orchestration - Design, build, and maintain highly available, fault-tolerant infrastructure supporting a high-throughput, real-time data platform - Lead the evolution of CI/CD pipelines to improve deployment velocity, safety, and developer experience across dozens of engineering teams - Own infrastructure-as-code standards (Terraform, Pulumi, or similar) and drive adoption of GitOps practices - Champion observability and reliability practices — SLOs/SLIs, incident response, on-call processes, and postmortems — to reduce MTTR and prevent recurrence - Partner with Security to embed guardrails for secrets management, network segmentation, vulnerability remediation, and compliance (SOC 2, ISO 27001, etc.) - Mentor and provide technical leadership to mid-level and senior DevOps/SRE engineers; conduct design and code reviews - Drive cost-optimization initiatives across cloud spend without compromising reliability or performance - Act as an escalation point for major incidents, driving root-cause analysis and long-term remediation - Evaluate and introduce new tools, platforms, and automation to continuously modernize the infrastructure stack Requirements: - 6+ years of experience in DevOps, Site Reliability Engineering, or Infrastructure Engineering roles, including experience leading technical initiatives - Deep expertise with a major cloud provider (AWS preferred; GCP or Azure also relevant) and container orchestration (Kubernetes, ECS, or similar) - Strong hands-on experience with infrastructure-as-code (Terraform, CloudFormation, or Pulumi) and configuration management tools - Proven track record building and scaling CI/CD pipelines (e.g., Jenkins, GitHub Actions, GitLab CI, CircleCI, ArgoCD) - Solid scripting/programming ability in Python, Go, or Bash for automation and tooling - Experience building and operating complex distributed systems - Proficiency in high-level scripting languages such as Python or Groovy - Experience developing solutions leveraging Docker - Experience managing Linux (Ubuntu) systems - Configuration management experience with Ansible or Terraform - Building/implementing monitoring for network, server, application, and database layers - Experience with monitoring tools such as Zabbix, Nagios, Grafana, CloudWatch - Experience with APM tools such as New Relic, AppDynamics, Datadog, Runscope - Experience with log aggregation systems using Logstash and Elasticsearch - Continuous integration, testing, and deployment using git, Jenkins - Experience with relational databases (Postgres) - Must be authorized to work in the US without current or future employer-sponsored visa support

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