Senior Production Software Engineer - Chicago, Illinois

Optiver · Chicago, Illinois, United States · All 42 Optiver jobs

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Advertised pay
$200,000 a year
Checker · last seen live 06 Nov 2026
Pay readStill open
Advertised pay
$200,000 a year
Level
Senior
Posted
01 May 2026
Age
6 months old (since 1 May)
Source
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Typical pay for this role in Chicago

The median advertised range for a software engineer in Chicago is $137,750 to $175,000, from 222 adverts that state a yearly pay. This job, at $200,000, sits above the top of that range.

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Required skills

  • Python
  • Networking
  • Linux
  • CI/CD
  • Observability
  • Process Improvement
  • Safeguarding

Nice to have

  • Risk Management
  • Go
  • Rust
  • Ansible
  • Django
  • Fastapi
  • Flask
  • Docker
  • Kubernetes

About the job

Optiver is looking for an experienced Production Software Engineer with responsibilities for building our infrastructure and automating our trading production environment. This team occupies a wide intersection of stakeholders across the business from operations to development, specifically focusing on scaling up change, increasing robustness, and reducing overhead. Your contributions have the potential to directly enable a faster and safer innovation cycle for Optiver.

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