> Markdown version of [/jobs/ext/2946395-platform-engineer](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/jobs/ext/2946395-platform-engineer). Every page supports `.md` or `Accept: text/markdown`. Links point to the HTML versions so they work for humans too. Agent guide: [/agents.md](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/agents.md). --- # Platform Engineer - **Company:** The Maven - **Location:** Chicago, IL, United States - **Experience:** Expert - **Salary:** $150,000.0 - $200,000.0 - **Contract:** Permanent contract - **Skills:** Linux, Python (Programming Language), Prometheus, Software Deployment, Application Enhancement Tool, Grafana, Kubernetes, Bare Metal, Terraform - **Published:** September 16, 2026 - **Apply:** https://startup.jobs/platform-engineer-maven-2-10082014 ## About the Role Around six years in a platform, SRE, DevOps or development role. Depth matters more than the exact number. * Comfortable working with traders, researchers and developers: you can listen to a messy request, find the actual problem, and explain a proposed approach in their terms * Able to recommend a direction and to say no when the ask is unreasonable or would make things worse * Persistent follow-up. A lot of this job is unfinished conversations across a six-hour gap. * Production Kubernetes: you have deployed to it, debugged a broken change, and can deal with an incident without waiting for someone else. You do not need to have run a fleet. * Comfortable with GitOps. We use ArgoCD, Helm and Kustomize; Terraform or similar experience transfers. * Able to write code to automate work. We use Python most of the time; Go is also useful. * Experience building a development or deployment process that other teams then ran themselves., * Experience in a trading firm, or another environment where the users of the platform are close to the business. Useful, not required; we have hired well from outside finance. * Judgment about when to decide locally and when to wait for the rest of the team * Coder, Gitpod, Codespaces, or another hosted developer environment * Kubernetes on-premises or on bare metal * Observability stacks you have operated: Prometheus, Thanos, Grafana, OpenTelemetry or similar * Experience in a new or growing regional team * Experience using AI-powered tools to improve efficiency and workflows. ## Description This role is based in our Chicago office. You work US hours with the desks here: understand what they are trying to do, turn that into something they can run themselves, and deal with the production problems that cannot wait for London. You will work with Platform colleagues in London and Asia, and with the Chicago infrastructure and trading technology teams. What you will be doing * Sitting with Chicago teams to understand what they are trying to accomplish, including the parts they have not spelled out, and turning that into a requirement the platform team can act on * Designing better ways of working for those teams: hosted developer environments (Coder), the path from a change to production, templates and checks that make the safe way the easy one * Recommending how we apply what we already have, and pushing back when a request is the wrong solution * Following through across the timezone gap so things do not stall when London has gone home * Being available in US hours when a deployment or application misbehaves, and handling the ones that cannot wait * Contributing to the shared platform rather than a US-specific fork. 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