Software Engineer Jobs Jobs in Chicago, IL

About Pinterest:

Millions of people around the world come to our platform to find creative ideas, dream about new possibilities and plan for memories that will last a lifetime. At Pinterest, we're on a mission to bring everyone the inspiration to create a life they love, and that starts with the people behind the product.

Discover a career where you ignite innovation for millions, transform passion into growth opportunities, celebrate each other's unique experiences and embrace theflexibility to do your best work. Creating a career you love? It's Possible.

At Pinterest, AI isn't just a feature, it's a powerful partner that augments our creativity and amplifies our impact, and we're looking for candidates who are excited to be a part of that. To get a complete picture of your experience and abilities, we'll explore your foundational skills and how you collaborate with AI.

Through our interview process, what matters most is that you can always explain your approach, showing us not just what you know, but how you think. You can read more about our AI interview philosophy and how we use AI in our recruiting process here.

The Internal Identity & Access Management (I2AM) team is responsible for critical production infrastructure that provides a foundational notion of Identity and strong authentication and authorization controls across Pinterest. Our backend is primarily written in Golang, Python with some C++ while our frontend tools are written in React and TypeScript. We're looking for an experienced software engineer who will help us build robust tooling to define and evaluate access controls across production infrastructure. A security background is not necessary but ideal candidates will have familiarity with the problems or related spaces, such as Infrastructure or Identity.

What you'll do:

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• Help shape our identity and authorization controls for users, services and AI Agents.
  
• Design, implement, and maintain mission-critical software that will help us deliver robust IAM infrastructure and libraries to our customers.
  
• Collaborate with a variety of teams to build performant and resilient AAA (Authentication, Authorization, Auditing) platform controls into various high-traffic services including our AI Agents, online/offline data platforms, databases, service mesh (Envoy). and other critical infrastructure components.
  
• Represent the I2AM team across the Security Organization and with our X-org partners, including Networking, Data Platform, Cloud Platform, Agent Platform and product teams.
  
• Work with and mentor more junior engineers on the I2AM team.
  

What we're looking for:

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• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field, or equivalent experience.
  
• 5+ years of software development experience.
  
• A history of building & operating large scale distributed systems.
  
• Past experience influencing technical architecture and roadmap adoption while working across other teams.
  
• Experience in some of the following areas is a strong plus:
  
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  • Infrastructure provisioning tools (Terraform, Puppet, etc.)
    
  • Identity, Account Security, Authentication/Authorization (OAuth, SAML, RBAC) protocols
    
  • AWS or other public cloud infrastructure, containerization such as Kubernetes
    
  • Familiarity with networking protocols (Application layer)
    
  
  
  

In-Office Requirement Statement:

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• We recognize that the ideal environment for work is situational and may differ across departments. What this looks like day-to-day can vary based on the needs of each organization or role.
  
• This role will need to be in the office for in-person collaboration 1-2 times every 6-months and therefore can be situated anywhere in the country.
  

Relocation Statement:

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• This position is not eligible for relocation assistance. Visit our PinFlex page to learn more about our working model.
  

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At Pinterest we believe the workplace should be equitable, inclusive, and inspiring for every employee. In an effort to provide greater transparency, we are sharing the base salary range for this position. The position is also eligible for equity. Final salary is based on a number of factors including location, travel, relevant prior experience, or particular skills and expertise.

Information regarding the culture at Pinterest and benefits available for this position can be found here.

Our Commitment to Inclusion:

About Pinterest:

Millions of people around the world come to our platform to find creative ideas, dream about new possibilities and plan for memories that will last a lifetime. At Pinterest, we're on a mission to bring everyone the inspiration to create a life they love, and that starts with the people behind the product.

Discover a career where you ignite innovation for millions, transform passion into growth opportunities, celebrate each other's unique experiences and embrace theflexibility to do your best work. Creating a career you love? It's Possible.

At Pinterest, AI isn't just a feature, it's a powerful partner that augments our creativity and amplifies our impact, and we're looking for candidates who are excited to be a part of that. To get a complete picture of your experience and abilities, we'll explore your foundational skills and how you collaborate with AI.

Through our interview process, what matters most is that you can always explain your approach, showing us not just what you know, but how you think. You can read more about our AI interview philosophy and how we use AI in our recruiting process here.

Pinterest's Security team is seeking an experienced Security Software Engineer to help keep our 619 million monthly active users safe from real-world threats. You will build tooling, product enhancements, and work with teams to improve our overall security posture and enhance our secure development lifecycle. We are looking for a candidate with a passion for security and innovation, who will research and develop new solutions to secure our products.

What you'll do:

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• Design and build out our rules, processes, and platform for our secure development lifecycle.
  
• Deliver and review code that is well-documented, tested, and operable.
  
• Work cross function to architect scalable and secure solutions to a variety of Pinterest's problems.
  
• Conduct regular security assessments including design reviews.
  
• Help rework our existing controls to address increased productivity due to AI and new AI threats.
  

What we're looking for:

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• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field, or equivalent experience.
  
• 5+ years of experience in product security, application security, or security related software engineering role.
  
• Enthusiasm for the constant fight to ensure security and privacy.
  
• Proficiency in a dynamic programming language such as Python.
  

In-Office Requirement Statement:

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• We recognize that the ideal environment for work is situational and may differ across departments. What this looks like day-to-day can vary based on the needs of each organization or role.
  
• This role will need to be in the office for in-person collaboration 1-2 times every 6-months and therefore can be situated anywhere in the country.
  

Relocation Statement:

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• This position is not eligible for relocation assistance. Visit our PinFlex page to learn more about our working model.
  

#LI-REMOTE

#LI-JT1

At Pinterest we believe the workplace should be equitable, inclusive, and inspiring for every employee. In an effort to provide greater transparency, we are sharing the base salary range for this position. The position is also eligible for equity. Final salary is based on a number of factors including location, travel, relevant prior experience, or particular skills and expertise.

Information regarding the culture at Pinterest and benefits available for this position can be found here.

Our Commitment to Inclusion:

Work Location: Chicago - Hybrid (Hybrid work: Tues-Thurs in the office. Monday & Friday remote)

Work Schedule: Normal CST business hours, Monday to Friday

Role Overview

We are seeking detail-oriented individuals to support the Search Log Quality (SLQ) systems through a combination of system monitoring, technical debt reduction, and quality assurance. You will play a critical role in maintaining the health of our logging infrastructure, resolving visual element ownership, and helping to reduce the tech debt in our codebase.

Key Responsibilities

Responsibilities may vary according to the designated track; however, the following tasks are representative of the role:

SLQ Monitoring & Triage: Perform first-level triage for system errors, maintain and enhance SLQ monitors, and conduct audits to standardize filtering.

Visual Elements (VE) Maintenance: Resolve ownership staleness bugs, update metadata/screenshots for active VEs, and identify/cleanup unused tags.

Infrastructure & Code Migration: Assist in migrating logging code to new frameworks (e.g., log routing), refactoring C++ logic, and transitioning frontend tools from React to Boq Wiz.

Quality & AI Verification: Validate AI-generated boilerplate code and VE suggestions, and conduct human evaluations for internal tools like Seeker and Sherlog.

Documentation: Analyze documentation gaps by grouping common technical questions and creating "canonical bug" collections for training.

Candidate Requirements

To be considered for this role, applicants must possess the following foundational qualifications:

A Bachelor’s degree or a comparable level of practical professional experience.

At least 3 years of software development experience using one or more languages (or 1 year for those with an advanced industry-related degree).

2 years of applied or academic experience working with algorithms and data structures.

Desired Technical Background

Advanced proficiency in SQL and Go.

Practical coding experience with at least one of the following: Java, C++, or Kotlin.

Understanding of distributed systems, RPC infrastructure, multi-threading, and asynchronous programming.

Proven ability to troubleshoot and identify root causes for production-level issues.

Professional & Interpersonal Skills

Excellent communication and cross-functional collaboration abilities.

Resourceful approach to problem-solving in high-velocity environments.

A proactive mindset and enthusiasm for learning

About Ascendco Health

Hospitals today are under greater pressure to optimize health performance than ever before and balancing patients’ physical health with hospitals’ financial health is stressing the system. Ascendco Health is an emerging health tech company that uses a unique blend of data, software, and analytics to digitally transform the way surgical devices are purchased and managed. Fueled by collaboration and inspired by innovation, we take pride in challenging the status quo with energy that accelerates results and enhances patient safety and surgical efficiency.

Summary of the Role

The Client Success Engineer works at the intersection of software implementation, support, engineering, and education. In this role you will be the go to technical expert on how our software is deployed and used in a fast moving, complex, and critical healthcare environment. You will be instrumental in getting our solution successfully deployed, running smoothly, and continuously improving for our clients. Along the way you’ll create and revise technical content that empowers both our clients and internal teams to help themselves spread and drive maximum value from the Ascendco platform.

Responsibilities

• Work closely with our software engineering team to become an expert in our current software modules and new modules as they are developed
• Help with QA, documentation, and training as new modules are developed, deployed, and operationalized
• Be a central part of the communication feedback loop between the software engineering team, internal subject matter experts, and our clients as our software continues to evolve
• Work with client IT departments to communicate technical and security specifications for how our platform is deployed and supported
• Work closely with our client success managers to help with the technical/IT aspects of implementing our platform for clients
• Protect our software engineer’s time by helping our support team with level 2 / complex support requests
• Build documentation and educational materials for how our software is deployed and used
• Spend approximately 25% of your time traveling to work onsite with other Ascenders at client facilities to help with go lives and operationalizing new modules

Requirements

• Very good communication skills all around
• Strong attention to detail and excellent problem-solving skills with a demonstrated ability to self-motivate and follow through on projects
• Curiosity and excitement that computers and software are a “bicycle of the mind”
• Patience and empathy working with people and technology
• Very effective at prioritizing and managing multiple tasks simultaneously, while maintaining focus and achieving successful outcomes
• Capable of efficiently navigating and adapting to changing priorities and deadlines
• Work remotely and in shared tech space
• Passion for continuous learning and improvement

BOWA Construction

Project Engineer

Chicago, IL

PRIMARY FUNCTION:

The Project Engineer will play a critical role assisting in project management and construction supervision efforts. As Project Engineer you will assist with managing and coordination of all submittals, cost control, scheduling, reporting, estimating and document control activities at the job site during the construction period. You will also ensure client satisfaction is maintained.

RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Assist the Project Manager and Superintendent in documenting the planning and scheduling of construction operations and coordinate the production and updating of required schedule networks and printouts.
• Set up Procore for project (or other computerized database system if required by the Owner).
• Where required, assist the Project Manager in establishing the permit requirements for the project.
• Assist in developing the Purchase and Award Schedule for the project.
• Participate in Pre-construction Meetings.
• Prepare change and work orders for issuance by Project Manager.
• Prepare and maintain the material status report. Review and follow material deliveries as scheduled and expedite in conjunction with the Project Superintendent using the Material Status Reports.
• Record/distribute meeting minutes as directed by the Project Manager.
• Update project schedule with input from the Project Manager and Project Superintendent.
• With the Project Manager and Superintendent, review Trade Contractor’s payment applications for payment.
• Assist in the implementation of quality plan for construction activities.
• Maintain and control all engineering records, logs, and files.
• Maintain the engineering set of working project drawings and specifications, keeping them posted and up to date, as well as a historical set of these documents.
• Distribute revised construction documents to all interested parties.
• Assist the Project Manager and Information Services with the set up and updating of the project’s Internet web site, if required for the project.
• Assist the Project Manager in creating the monthly report.
• Participate in lessons learned sessions.
• Assist the Project Manager with preparing the initial and final Project Data Reports.
• Transmit all project related records, including copies of all projects related electronic data, for retention in the approved records storage facility.
• Entering data into and obtaining reports from the Change Management and Cost Reporting Systems for the project.
• Assist with punch list items and project close out.
• Other duties and responsibilities as required.

SKILLS, KNOWLEDGE, QUALIFICATIONS, & EXPERIENCE:

• Bachelors’ degree in Engineering or Construction Management.
• 1-4 years of related project engineer experience with a construction or construction management firm preferably on commercial, mixed-use, industrial, or school projects.
• Working knowledge of construction equipment and techniques, drawings, and specifications, building materials and required standards applicable to discipline.
• Ability to assume responsibility and interface well with Project Team.
• Exemplify exceptional customer service and leadership.
• Ability to communicate effectively through writing.
• Ability to process improvement, problem solve, and clearly communicate.
• Possess basic computer skills including Microsoft Office applications.
• Knowledge of Construction Management and industry software (I.e., Procore).

BENEFITS:

• Medical, Dental, Vision Insurance -
• Performance Based Bonuses - % of base salary
• Parental Leave
• Basic Life and AD&D Insurance
• Short Term & Long Term Disability Insurance
• 401(k) with company match
• Paid Vacation, Sick Time, & Holidays.
• Employee Assistance Program - (advocates to help manage and control stress levels and everyday life for you and/or your family)

Please note: This position is not eligible for work visa sponsorship.

About Us

Clayco is a full-service, turnkey real estate development, master planning, architecture, engineering, and construction firm that safely delivers clients across North America the highest quality solutions on time, on budget, and above and beyond expectations. With $7.6 billion in revenue for 2024, Clayco specializes in the "art and science of building," providing fast track, efficient solutions for industrial, commercial, institutional, and residential related building projects.

About Ventana

As part of the Clayco family, Ventana designs, supplies, and installs high-performing curtain wall façade systems. By working closely with the design team, we can ensure a competitively priced façade that is water and airtight and allows for optimal thermal control of the interior space. Traditionally, the façade is one of the major risk factors on any building, and the team at Ventana has a proven track record of taking the risk and delivering superior façade systems that guarantee long-term performance.

The Role We Want You For

Ventana is currently seeking a Cost Engineer to join our team. In this role, you will be assisting in the development and management of the project financial strategy. You will be working directly with the project management team (Direct report to Director of Cost Management) to manage the project budget, costs, change orders, billings and forecasts. You will be responsible for generating and maintaining reports that provide information to different groups, work with the management team to identify variances, risks and maintain quality control processes to improve project cost procedures and ensuring conformity with management's strategy.

The Specifics of the Role

• Works with all project disciplines to ensure understanding of total project cost budget allowances and targets.
• Review project documents and specifications to accurately identify, develop and track request of change orders (General Contractor related), baseline estimates, potential risk exposures while communicating potential impacts to the financial targets, schedule and overall project management process.
• Works closely with the accounting department to ensure the correct integration of all information needed to ensure accuracy in billings, payment applications, change orders, direct cost, labor cost, etc.
• Works closely with the project management team, executive management personnel, subcontractors, as well as occasional contact with clients.
• Responsible for cost engineering, cost estimation, cost analysis, and control activities for projects with significant non-routine requirements or for proposal estimating activities which require a moderate degree of technical skill and experience.
• Ensuring quality, accuracy, consistency, spend profile, performing change management, and transparency in all cost management deliverables.
• Take ownership of the cost control function and ensure integrity of the cost and forecast reporting

Requirements

• Minimum of a Bachelor Business Administration, Engineering, or Construction Management Degree
• Minimum of 2 years in the construction industry
• Knowledge of project development stages, procurement, project controls and construction execution practices is required.
• Working knowledge of applicable computer software such as PMWeb or similar project portfolio management software, dataServ, excel, JDE, Microsoft Bi Variance, etc.
• Effective problem-solving skills.
• Results oriented and deliver on customer commitments.
• PMP certification would be ideal.

Some Things You Should Know

• Our clients and projects are nationwide – Travel will be required.
• No other builder can offer the collaborative design-build approach that Clayco does.
• We work on creative, complex, award-winning, high-profile jobs.
• The pace is fast!

Why Clayco and Ventana?

• 2025 Best Places to Work – St. Louis Business Journal, Los Angeles Business Journal, and Phoenix Business Journal.
• 2025 ENR Midwest – Midwest Contractor (#1).
• 2025 ENR Top 100 Design-Build Firms – Design-Build Contractor (Top 5).
• 2025 ENR Top 100 Green Contractors – Green Contractor (Top 3).
• 2025 ENR Top 25 Data Center Builders – Data Center Contractor (Top 3).

Benefits

• Discretionary Annual Bonus: Subject to company and individual performance.
• Comprehensive Benefits Package Including: Medical, dental and vision plans, 401k, generous PTO and paid company holidays, employee assistance program, flexible spending accounts, life insurance, disability coverage, learning & development programs and more!

Compensation

• The salary range for this position considers a wide range of factors in making compensation decisions including but not limited to: Education, qualifications, skills, training, experience, certifications, internal equity, and location. It is not typical for an individual to be hired at or near the top of the range for the role and compensation decisions are dependent on the facts and circumstances of each case. The Clayco Nationwide salary range for this position is approximately $70,000 - $80,000 +/- annually (not adjusted for location).

Be a part of our success story. Launch offers talented and motivated people the opportunity to do the best work of their lives in a dynamic and growing company. Through competitive salaries, outstanding benefits, internal advancement opportunities, and recognized community involvement, you will have the chance to create a career you can be proud of. Your new trajectory starts here at Launch!

The Role:

Launch is actively seeking a visionary Solutions Architect / Principal Software Engineering Lead (AI) to design and deliver modern engineering and applied AI solutions across client engagements. This role blends deep hands‑on engineering, architectural leadership, AI system design, and client advisory. You will operate across system design, production‑grade engineering, multi‑agent architectures, cloud platform strategy, and the development of Launch’s AI practice.

Responsibilities Include:

Architecture & Technical Strategy

• Define the technical direction for client engagements end-to-end: discovery, design, build, and production hardening.
• Assess client technology ecosystems and identify high-impact opportunities for AI/ML integration.
• Lead architecture reviews, design sessions, and technology selection across cross-functional stakeholder groups.
• Translate ambiguous business problems into concrete engineering plans with clear scope, milestones, and risk callouts.

AI Engineering & Delivery

• Architect production agentic systems including multi-agent orchestration, agent harnesses, skill/tool composition, human-in-the-loop checkpoints, and inter-agent communication protocols (e.g., A2A, MCP).
• Build and govern MCP server ecosystems: design, deploy, and secure Model Context Protocol integrations connecting AI agents to enterprise data sources, internal APIs, and third-party platforms.
• Define agent skill and capability frameworks including reusable skill libraries, prompt engineering standards, and evaluation harnesses for consistent agent behavior across engagements.
• Architect RAG pipelines, fine-tuning workflows, and model lifecycle infrastructure (training, serving, experiment tracking) as foundational components of agentic systems.
• Integrate AI platforms and APIs (Azure OpenAI, Amazon Bedrock, Anthropic, Vertex AI) into production systems with enterprise-grade reliability, cost governance, and observability.
• Establish AI-native development practices: embed tools such as Claude Code, Cursor, and GitHub Copilot into team workflows with standards for AI-assisted code review, test generation, and documentation.
• Design evaluation and observability infrastructure including LLM eval frameworks, red-teaming, behavioral drift detection, and production monitoring across tool call chains, latency, and failure modes.
• Apply responsible AI governance: define guardrails, access controls, and audit patterns for agentic workflows in enterprise environments including scope containment and escalation paths.

Hands-On Engineering

• Write production code and lead by example — this role requires someone who is still close to the code.
• Design cloud-native architectures across multiple hyperscalers (AWS and Azure primarily) microservices, event-driven systems, serverless, and containerized workloads.
• Define and implement infrastructure-as-code using tools such as Terraform, Pulumi, CloudFormation, or Bicep.
• Design and optimize CI/CD pipelines, GitOps workflows, and container orchestration using Docker and Kubernetes.
• Establish observability and reliability practices using tools such as Datadog, Prometheus, Grafana, CloudWatch, or Azure Monitor.
• Drive security-by-design across the delivery lifecycle including IAM, network architecture, secrets management, and compliance automation.

Leadership & Client Advisory

• Lead engineering teams ranging from small squads to 10+ person delivery teams, scaling leadership approach to the needs of each engagement.
• Mentor and develop engineers at all levels through code reviews, pairing, and design coaching.
• Operate as a trusted advisor to client technical leadership and executive stakeholders. Communicate trade-offs clearly and build confidence.
• Influence without direct authority — driving alignment across cross-functional teams through technical credibility and stakeholder management.
• Lead discovery and requirements elicitation, surfacing the underlying business need beyond the stated request.
• Produce clear written artifacts: technical proposals, architecture decision records, SOWs, and executive-level status communication.
• Grow client relationships and identify follow-on opportunities through proposal contributions and delivery-driven account expansion.
• Contribute to Launch's growth — practice development, thought leadership, and hiring.

Qualifications:

Must-Haves:

• Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or a related field.
• 10+ years in software engineering with demonstrated experience in architecture and technical leadership roles.
• 3+ years hands-on with AI/ML in production. Broad fluency across generative AI (LLMs, RAG, fine-tuning, agents), MLOps (model serving, pipelines, experiment tracking), and AI-integrated product development.
• Consulting or client-facing delivery experience with a proven ability to integrate into client organizations and establish credibility with technical and executive stakeholders.
• Full-stack engineering capability across frontend, backend, infrastructure, and data layers. Proficiency in multiple modern languages (e.g., Python, TypeScript/Node.js, C#/.NET, Java, or Go) with the ability to move between them as engagements require.
• Multi-hyperscaler depth across AWS and Azure, including their respective AI/ML service ecosystems (Bedrock, SageMaker, Azure OpenAI, Azure ML). GCP experience is a plus.
• Strong fundamentals in distributed systems, event-driven architecture, API design, and DevOps/platform engineering.
• Experience leading engineering teams in agile delivery environments.
• Business acumen with the ability to connect architecture decisions to cost, timeline, and organizational impact.
• Executive presence and communication skills effective with both technical and non-technical audiences.
• Proven ability to operate in ambiguous environments and adapt to diverse client cultures.

Strong Differentiators

• Experience contributing to the development of AI engineering practices, reusable frameworks, or internal accelerators within a consulting or enterprise environment.
• Experience advising C-suite or VP-level stakeholders on AI strategy, investment prioritization, and organizational readiness.
• Depth with agentic AI frameworks (LangChain, LangGraph, LangSmith, LlamaIndex, Semantic Kernel, CrewAI) and emerging standards like MCP (Model Context Protocol).
• Experience with enterprise data platforms (Databricks, Snowflake, BigQuery) in the context of AI/ML workloads.
• Cloud architecture certifications across AWS and Azure (AWS SA Professional, Azure Solutions Architect Expert).
• Published writing, open-source contributions, or conference speaking that demonstrates thought leadership in AI or software architecture.
• Domain depth in industries such as healthcare, financial services, retail, or public sector.

Compensation & Benefits:

As an employee at Launch, you will grow your skills and experience through a variety of exciting project work (across industries and technologies) with some of the top companies in the world! Our employees receive full benefits—medical, dental, vision, short-term disability, long-term disability, life insurance, and matched 401k. We also have an uncapped, take-what-you-need PTO policy. The anticipated base wage range for this role is $190,000 to $230,000. Education and experience will be highly considered, and we are happy to discuss your wage expectations in more detail throughout our internal interview process.

Site Reliability Engineer

Description and Requirements

About Our Team

We are building Quantum, a next‑generation hybrid AI platform that spans Windows, Android, and cloud. As part of this initiative, we are growing the reliability engineering organization that powers cross‑device Personal AI.

We are hiring Site Reliability Engineers (SREs) to strengthen the reliability, observability, and operational excellence of Qira’s AI systems across device, edge, and cloud. Depending on your strengths, you may be aligned to areas such as Observability, Operations, or Service Reliability.

Works with the speed and creativity of a startup inside— you’ll help build foundational systems with clarity, ownership, and modern engineering practices.

Location: On-site in Chicago, IL. Hybrid (3 days on-site, 2 days remote)

What You Might Work On

As an SRE, you may be responsible for a subset of the following, depending on team placement and skill alignment:

Reliability & Systems Engineering

• Support the reliability, availability, and performance of distributed systems across cloud, edge, and device environments.
• Help define, measure, and monitor SLIs and SLOs for core services.
• Identify reliability risks and collaborate with senior engineers on mitigation plans.

Operational Excellence

• Participate in on‑call rotations and assist with incident response and post‑incident reviews.
• Contribute improvements to runbooks, automation, and tooling that reduce alert noise and operational toil.
• Help enhance detection, alerting, and response workflows.

Observability & Insight

• Implement and improve telemetry using OpenTelemetry, Grafana, and related tools.
• Build dashboards and tools that improve visibility into system health and AI service behavior.
• Ensure observability data is complete, accurate, and actionable.

Deployments & Change Safety

• Support safe, reliable deployment workflows including canaries, staged rollouts, and automated rollbacks.
• Assist in improving CI/CD systems and deployment tooling.

Collaboration & Best Practices

• Work closely with senior SREs, DevOps engineers, AI/ML teams, and platform engineers.
• Contribute to reliability reviews, operational readiness checks, and cross‑team projects.
• Advocate for modern SRE and DevOps practices within the organization.

Basic Qualifications

• 4+ years of experience in Site Reliability Engineering, DevOps, Platform Engineering, or production systems operations.
• Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related technical field (or equivalent practical experience).
• Foundational experience supporting distributed systems in production.
• Ability to write scripts or tools in Python, Go, Bash, or similar languages.
• Solid understanding of Linux systems, networking basics, and system performance fundamentals.
• Experience with cloud platforms (Azure preferred, AWS or GCP acceptable).
• Familiarity with monitoring/observability (metrics, logs, tracing).
• Experience with containers and Kubernetes.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with OpenTelemetry instrumentation and telemetry pipelines.
• Hands‑on experience with Grafana, Prometheus, Loki, or Tempo.
• Exposure to AI/ML systems, inference services, or data‑intensive workloads.
• Experience contributing to CI/CD processes and deployment automation.
• Familiarity with hybrid architectures spanning device, edge, and cloud.
• Passion for automation, reliability, and operational excellence.

What Success Looks Like

• Systems become easier to operate, observe, and trust.
• Alerts are more accurate and actionable.
• On‑call load decreases through thoughtful automation and improvements.
• Deployment workflows become more reliable and repeatable.
• You grow toward deeper ownership and technical leadership within the reliability engineering organization.

Sr. Data Engineer (Hybrid)

Chicago, IL

The American Medical Association (AMA) is the nation's largest professional Association of physicians and a non-profit organization. We are a unifying voice and powerful ally for America's physicians, the patients they care for, and the promise of a healthier nation. To be part of the AMA is to be part of our Mission to promote the art and science of medicine and the betterment of public health.

At AMA, our mission to improve the health of the nation starts with our people. We foster an inclusive, people-first culture where every employee is empowered to perform at their best. Together, we advance meaningful change in health care and the communities we serve.

We encourage and support professional development for our employees, and we are dedicated to social responsibility. We invite you to learn more about us and we look forward to getting to know you.

We have an opportunity at our corporate offices in Chicago for a Sr. Data Engineer (Hybrid) on our Information Technology team. This is a hybrid position reporting into our Chicago, IL office, requiring 3 days a week in the office.

As a Sr. Data Engineer, you will play a key role in implementing
and maintaining AMA's enterprise data platform to support analytics,
interoperability, and responsible AI adoption. This role partners closely with
platform engineering, data governance, data science, IT security, and business
stakeholders to deliver highquality, reliable, and secure data products. This
role contributes to AMA's modern lakehouse architecture, optimizing data
operations, and embedding governance and quality standards into engineering
workflows. This role serves as a
senior technical contributor within the team-providing mentorship to junior
engineers and implementing engineering best practices within the data platform function,
in alignment with architectural direction set by leadership.

RESPONSIBILITIES:

Data Engineering & AI Enablement

• Build and maintain scalable data pipelines and
  ETL/ELT workflows supporting analytics, operational reporting, and AI/ML use
  cases.
• Implement best practice patterns for ingestion,
  transformation, modeling, and orchestration within a modern lakehouse
  environment (e.g., Databricks, Delta Lake, Azure Data Lake).
• Develop highperformance
  data models and curated datasets with strong attention to quality, usability,
  and interoperability; create reusable engineering components and automation.
• Collaborate with the Architecture Team, the Data
  Platform Lead, and federated IT teams to optimize storage, compute, and
  architectural patterns for performance and costefficiency.
• Build model-ready data sets and feature
  pipelines to support AI/ ML use cases; serve as a technical coordination point
  supporting business units' AI-related infrastructure needs.
• Collaborate with data scientists and AI Working
  Group to operationalize models responsibly and maintain ongoing monitoring
  signals.

Governance, Quality & Compliance

• Embed data governance, metadata standards,
  lineage tracking, and quality controls directly into engineering workflows;
  ensure technical implementation and alignment within engineering workflows.
• Work with the Data Governance Lead and business
  stakeholders to operationalize stewardship, classification, validation,
  retention, and access standards.
• Implement privacybydesign and securitybydesign
  principles, ensuring compliance with internal policies and regulatory
  obligations.
• Maintain documentation for pipelines, datasets,
  and transformations to support transparency and audit requirements.

Platform Reliability, Observability & Optimization

• Monitor and troubleshoot pipeline failures,
  performance bottlenecks, data anomalies, and platformlevel issues.
• Implement observability tooling, alerts,
  logging, and dashboards to ensure endtoend reliability.
• Support cost governance by optimizing compute
  resources, refining job schedules, and advising on efficient architecture.
• Collaborate with the Data Platform Lead on
  scaling, configuration management, CI/CD pipelines, and environment management.
• Collaborate with business units to understand
  data needs, translate them into engineering requirements, and deliver
  fit-for-purpose data solutions; share and apply best practices and emerging
  technologies within assigned initiatives.
• Work with IT Security and Legal/ Compliance to
  ensure platform and datasets meet risk and regulatory standards.
  

Staff Management

• Lead, mentor, and provide management oversight
  for staff.
• Responsible for setting objectives, evaluating
  employee performance, and fostering a collaborative team environment.
• Responsible for developing staff knowledge and
  skills to support career development.

May include other responsibilities as assigned

REQUIREMENTS:

1. Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Information Systems, or related field preferred or equivalent work experience and HS diploma/equivalent education required.
2. 5+ years of experience in data engineering within cloud environments
3. Experience in people management preferred.
4. Demonstrated hands-on experience with modern data platforms (Databricks preferred).
5. Proficiency in Python, SQL, and data
   transformation frameworks.
6. Experience designing and operationalizing
   ETL/ELT pipelines, orchestration workflows (Airflow, Databricks Workflows), and
   CI/CD processes.
7. Solid understanding of data modeling,
   structured/unstructured data patterns, and schema design.
8. Experience implementing governance and quality
   controls: metadata, lineage, validation, stewardship workflows.
9. Working knowledge of cloud architecture, IAM,
   networking, and security best practices.
10. Demonstrated ability to collaborate across
    technical and business teams.
11. Exposure to AI/ML engineering concepts, feature
    stores, model monitoring, or MLOps patterns.
12. Experience with infrastructureascode
    (Terraform, CloudFormation) or DevOps tooling.

The American Medical Association is located at 330 N. Wabash Avenue, Chicago, IL 60611 and is convenient to all public transportation in Chicago.

This role is an exempt position, and the salary range for this position is $115,523.42-$150,972.44. This is the lowest to highest salary we believe we would pay for this role at the time of this posting. An employee's pay within the salary range will be determined by a variety of factors including but not limited to business consideration and geographical location, as well as candidate qualifications, such as skills, education, and experience. Employees are also eligible to participate in an incentive plan. To learn more about the American Medical Association's benefits offerings, please click here.

We are an equal opportunity employer, committed to diversity in our workforce. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment. As an EOE/AA employer, the American Medical Association will not discriminate in its employment practices due to an applicant's race, color, religion, sex, age, national origin, sexual orientation, gender identity and veteran or disability status.

THE AMA IS COMMITTED TO IMPROVING THE HEALTH OF THE NATION