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Site Reliability Engineer III (Multiple Openings)

CME Group · Chicago, IL · $108,077–$172,500 a year · Full time

Posted Aug 18, 2026 · We last checked this listing on Oct 4, 2026

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About your past

Tell me about an incident you handled on call. What did you do in the first fifteen minutes?

What they are checking: Whether they respond to incidents in a calm, structured way, focusing on impact and communication first.

Tell me about a time you disagreed with a developer about a reliability tradeoff.

What they are checking: Collaboration and the ability to settle technical disagreements constructively.

What would you do

A development team wants to ship a service that doesn't meet availability requirements. What do you do?

What they are checking: Ability to enforce non-functional requirements while helping the team get there.

About the work

Walk me through how you'd migrate an application from on-premises to Google Cloud with minimal downtime.

What they are checking: Practical migration planning, which is the first duty listed for the role.

What do you monitor to know a service is healthy, and how do you avoid alert fatigue?

What they are checking: Whether they choose meaningful signals and keep alerts actionable.

How do you run a blameless post-incident review that leads to real fixes?

What they are checking: Whether they turn incidents into lasting improvements instead of blame.

How would you plan capacity for a service with big spikes on high-volume trading days?

What they are checking: Capacity planning for burst traffic, which matters at an exchange.

What is toil, and tell me about some you automated away.

What they are checking: Whether they measure and reduce repetitive manual work with engineering.

How do you design for fault tolerance in a distributed service?

What they are checking: Knowledge of redundancy, retries, timeouts and graceful degradation.

What observability tools have you used, and how do metrics, logs and traces work together?

What they are checking: Hands-on observability depth needed to maintain services in Google Cloud.

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The full job description

As published by CME Group.

Work with development and platform engineering teams to migrate and maintain applications in Google Cloud. Apply Observability concepts and applications to maintain services. Monitor metrics, system health and analyze reports. Provide on-call rotation support for production systems, facilitate incident management and conduct post-incident reviews. Drive, contribute and implement designs for application operational resiliency, fault tolerance and capacity planning. Continually improve processes and systems, promote and implement automation, and manage toil. Work with application teams to ensure designed software solutions meet non-functional requirements, including availability, performance, security and maintainability standards. Telecommuting permitted on a hybrid schedule as determined by the employer. MINIMUM REQUIREMENTS Bachelor’s degree in Information Technology, Computer Science, Engineering (any) or related field and 36 months of experience software Developers or a related occupation. SALARY $108,077.00 to $172,500.00 per Year To apply, visit https://www.cmegroup.com/careers.html. Must reference job req: 34720. CME Group is committed to offering a competitive total rewards package for our employees that recognizes their contributions to the business and reflects our long-term investment in their future. Actual salary offered will be dependent on a wide array of factors including but not limited to: relevant experience, skills, education and comparison to internal employees (where relevant). Our compensation program also includes an annual target bonus opportunity for all employees, as well as the opportunity to become an owner in the company through our broad-based equity program. Through our benefits program, we strive to offer flexibility, value and choice. From comprehensive health coverage, to a retirement package that includes both a 401(k) and an active pension plan, to highly competitive education reimbursement provisions, paid time off and a mental health benefit, CME Group offers a holistic benefits package for our team and their dependents. CME Group is committed to offering a competitive total rewards package for our employees that recognizes their contributions to the business and reflects our long-term investment in their future. The pay range for this role is $103,500-$172,500. Actual salary offered will be dependent on a wide array of factors including but not limited to: relevant experience, skills, education and comparison to internal employees (where relevant). Our compensation program also includes an annual target bonus opportunity for all employees, as well as the opportunity to become an owner in the company through our broad-based equity program. Through our benefits program, we strive to offer flexibility, value and choice. From comprehensive health coverage, to a retirement package that includes both a 401(k) and an active pension plan, to highly competitive education reimbursement provisions, paid time off and a mental health benefit, CME Group offers a holistic benefits package for our team and their dependents. CME Group: Where Futures are Made CME Group is the world’s leading derivatives marketplace. But who we are goes deeper than that. Here, you can impact markets worldwide. Transform industries. And build a career by shaping tomorrow. We invest in your success and you own it – all while working alongside a team of leading experts who inspire you in ways big and small. Problem solvers, difference makers, trailblazers. Those are our people. And we’re looking for more. At CME Group, we embrace our employees' unique experiences and skills to ensure that everyone’s perspectives are acknowledged and valued. As an equal-opportunity employer, we consider all potential employees without regard to any protected characteristic. Important Notice: Recruitment fraud is on the rise, with scammers using misleading promises of job offers and interviews to solicit money and personal information from job seekers. CME Group adheres to established procedures designed to maintain trust, confidence and security throughout our recruitment process. Learn more here .

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