Role Overview
Cboe Clear U.S. (CCUS) is a regulated clearinghouse. We clear the event contracts and prediction markets listed on Cboe's exchanges, and we are building toward tokenized collateral, 24x7 operation, and the infrastructure that carries traditional finance onto DeFi rails.
CCUS Software Engineering is a high trust environment. We treat failure as a source of learning, and we expect engineering teams to work across team boundaries rather than only within their departments. We solve the problem, then we write the code. Design documents and architecture decision records come first. The engineers we value most close their feedback loop. They write tests, and they instrument what they ship so it fails fast, explains itself in production, leaves an audit trail and rolls back cleanly.
The DevEx Engineer builds the pipelines, tooling and observability every other engineer here depends on. You would be one of the first engineers on a new developer experience team, which means you help choose the tooling and set the standards rather than arrive after those decisions are made. That scope is unusual for an individual contributor role and it is the strongest reason to take this job.
Your responsibilities will be
Building and maintaining our CI pipelines in GitHub Actions, and integrating them with the platform team's deployment tooling.
Owning the Helm charts and values that define how our services run in each environment.
Instrumenting those pipelines to produce real metrics on our software delivery lifecycle.
Wiring observability into our microservices so engineers can diagnose behavior in production rather than reproduce it locally, including logging, tracing and retention.
Defining service level objectives for the services this team provides, and holding them to an error budget.
Making the path to production push button and reversible, so releases and rollbacks are routine, automated and low risk.
Creating tooling that measurably improves how quickly and safely other engineers ship.
Deploying and operating containerized services on Kubernetes.
Managing infrastructure as code and keeping environments consistent and reproducible.
Participating in incident response and turning findings into durable fixes rather than repeat tickets.
Contributing to disaster recovery testing and the validation of recovery objectives.
Documenting decisions in architecture decision records so choices stay visible to other teams.
Required
Minimum Work Experience: 2+ years in platform, developer experience, infrastructure or reliability engineering with a bachelor's degree, or 5+ years without a degree
Experience supporting developer experience across the delivery lifecycle, from build and test through deployment and observability
Experience building and operating production application services, in Java or a comparable language, before moving into developer tooling
Instrumenting services and pipelines for observability, including the metrics, logs and traces that make runtime behavior visible
Defining service level objectives and running to an error budget, with alerting that reflects user impact rather than machine noise
Reducing deployment pain through automation, so changes reach production on a repeatable path with a low change failure rate and fast time to restore service
A bias toward automating repeated work permanently rather than performing it twice
Strong Linux fundamentals and comfort operating containerized services on Kubernetes, Nomad or similar orchestrators
Preferred
Proficiency in Python, Terraform and YAML, which is what most of this work is actually written in
Container runtimes such as Docker or Podman
GitOps deployment workflows
Building CI pipelines and integrating them with deployment tooling you did not write
Shell scripting and comfort automating around tools that lack an API
Incident response and disaster recovery testing
Financial markets infrastructure or other regulated, latency-sensitive systems
Nice to have
Cloud platforms including AWS, Azure or GCP
AI-assisted development tooling
Working SQL and comfort with PostgreSQL
Experience standing up a platform function from scratch
Current technology stack
Java on Kubernetes. Application code and CI pipelines live in GitHub with GitHub Actions. Container images and build artifacts live in registries such as Harbor and Artifactory, and Helm charts are deployed by ArgoCD from a GitOps repository. PostgreSQL, Kafka and Linux. This is representative rather than exhaustive. Our platform team runs the deployment platform on its own tooling, in its own repositories, so a real part of this role is integrating cleanly across that boundary and telling them what our application developers need.
You do not need experience with every technology in our environment. We hire for competencies over pedigree, so if you have built similar systems and learn quickly, we encourage you to apply.
Minimum Work Experience: 5+ years in platform engineering, developer experience, infrastructure or reliability engineering
Minimum Education: Bachelor's in Computer Science or a related discipline, or equivalent practical experience
Benefits and Perks of working for Cboe Global Markets
We value the total wellbeing of our people – including health, financial, personal and social wellness. We believe standard benefits like health insurance and fair pay are a given at any organization. Still, you should know we offer:
Fair and competitive salary and incentive compensation packages with an upside for overachievement
Generous paid time off, including vacation, personal days, sick days and annual community service days
Health, dental and vision benefits, including access to telemedicine and mental health services
2:1 401(k) match, up to 8% match immediately upon hire
Discounted Employee Stock Purchase Plan
Tax Savings Accounts for health, dependent and transportation
Employee referral bonus program
Volunteer opportunities to help you give back to your communities
Some of our associates’ favorite benefits and perks include
Complimentary lunch, snacks and coffee in any Cboe office
Paid Tuition assistance and education opportunities
Generous charitable giving company match
Paid parental leave and fertility benefits
On-site gyms and discounts to other fitness centers
Paid Time Off
More About Cboe Global Markets
We’re reimagining the future of the workplace by focusing on what matters most, our people. Our journey is an inclusive one. We’re investing deeply in leadership programs and career development initiatives that ensure everyone has an equal chance to succeed.
We work with purpose, solving problems with ingenuity, collaboration, and a lot of passion. We’re an engaged and excited team connecting markets across borders and embracing growth in all its forms to achieve incredible outcomes.
Learn more about life at Cboe on our website and LinkedIn.
Equal Employment Opportunity
We're proud to be an equal opportunity employer who does not discriminate against any employee or applicant for employment based on any legally protected characteristic, including race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, disability, genetic information, or veteran status. We are committed to fostering a workplace where all individuals are valued and respected.
This position is not eligible for visa sponsorship. Candidates must be legally authorized to work in the United States without the need for employer sponsorship now or in the future.
Salary Ranges (applicable for US locations only) At Cboe, we are committed to providing a competitive, transparent, and market‑informed total rewards program. The anticipated base salary range for this role is $102,850-$133,100, with actual compensation determined by job‑related factors such as skills, relevant experience, education, internal alignment, and location.
This role may also be eligible for annual incentive compensation and, where applicable, participation in Cboe's long-term equity programs.
Additional information about Cboe's total rewards program, including benefits and other compensation components, can be found here: Total Rewards at CBOE.
Any communication from Cboe regarding this position will only come from a Cboe recruiter who has a @cboe.com email or via LinkedIn Recruiter. Cboe does not use any other third party communication tools for recruiting purposes.
