Maven
Platform Engineer (Hybrid) 2/3 days in Chicago Office
Chicago
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$15,693 more — $165,693 — moves this role to Level IV and 4 lottery entries. That figure is inside the range the employer already advertised.
Based on the DOL prevailing wage for this occupation and worksite, a base salary of $165,693 would place this position at wage Level IV. That figure is within the posted range, and I'd like to target it. This role classifies under "Software Developers" for prevailing-wage purposes.
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About the role
- 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.
Responsibilities
- At Maven, our goal is to create an environment that empowers and motivates our employees to maximise their potential.
Requirements
- Production Kubernetes: you have deployed to it, debugged a broken change, and can deal with an incident without waiting for someone else.
Nice to have
- None of these are required.
- 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
Skills
- 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. One repository, one set of standards
- Working with the Chicago Linux, network and storage teams on anything that spans the hosts and the cluster
Compensation
- Salary Range: $150000 - $200000, plus a discretionary bonus.
Benefits
- Our comprehensive benefits package is designed to optimise performance, reward our employees, and allow them time to pursue their passions.
- $150000 - $200000, plus a discretionary bonus.
Company info
- Platform Engineering builds and operates the environment Maven's applications run on: 22 Kubernetes clusters across Europe, the US and Asia, all on-premises, supporting over 1,100 production deployments for 44 teams and desks.
- Teams own their own applications and deploy them themselves.
- Our job is to build the systems and ways of working that let them do that without coming through us: hosted developer environments, a safe path to production, and the clusters those workloads land on.
- Linux and networking sit with dedicated teams; we sit between that layer and the people building on top of it.
- We still get pulled into production problems that cut across stacks, but the aim is always the same: turn a recurring need into something a team can do themselves.
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