Senior Software Engineer - DevOps/SRE
project44, Chicago +1
The role
project44 is looking for a Senior DevOps/SRE/Platform Engineer to join our Foundations Engineering team. You will work in a fast-paced Agile environment designing, building, and operating the foundational systems that power project44's global logistics network—ensuring our platform is reliable, observable, cost-efficient, and built to scale. This is a high-ownership, high-impact role at the intersection of cloud infrastructure, distributed systems, and developer enablement.
What you need
- 5+ years of professional experience in platform engineering, infrastructure engineering, SRE, DevOps, or a closely related role
Strong experience in
- Kubernetes administration and operations at scale (GKE strongly preferred), including cluster networking, autoscaling, workload isolation, and upgrade management
- Kafka operations and architecture, including topic design, consumer group management, broker configuration, and integration with streaming workloads (Strimzi experience a plus)