58 director platform engineering jobs at 44 companies in Illinois
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Founding Backend / Infra Engineer
Cupertino, CA, US
$160k-$300k/yrOn-SiteFull Time
HiringCafe: Building a 100× better job search engine to take on Indeed and LinkedIn.
Own the crawlers, pipelines, and infrastructure powering a real-time job search engine. Strong Node.js and Python fundamentals; bonus points for security and reverse-engineering chops.
New York City or Los Angeles or Chicago or Stamford or California or Connecticut or Florida or Georgia or Illinois or Indiana or Maryland or Massachusetts or Michigan or Minnesota or Nevada or New Hampshire or New Jersey or New York or North Carolina or Oregon or South Carolina or South Dakota or Texas or West Virginia or Wisconsin or Wyoming
$209k-$244k/yrHybridFull Time
A+E Global Media: Operates global media brands and produces original multi-platform content.
Progressive leadership of platform engineering and SRE teams; cloud-native platform architecture; AI-enabled developer tooling; vendor and budget management; strong executive communication.
Oakland or Washington or Ohio or District of Columbia or California or Long Beach or Arizona or Colorado or Connecticut or Florida or Georgia or Maryland or Minnesota or Nevada or Oregon or El Dorado Hills or Lodi or Rancho Cordova or Redding or San Diego or Woodland Hills or Alabama or Illinois or Virginia or Wisconsin or Texas or New York
$205k-$308k/yrHybridFull Time
Ascendiun: Nonprofit parent overseeing health insurance and clinical service organizations.
10+ YOE6+ Mgmt10+ years engineering experience, 6+ years people management, Bachelor’s in CS/IT/MIS (or HS+4yrs), experience with cloud platforms (AWS/Azure/GCP), CI/CD and GitOps, strong cross-functional influence and strategic leadership.
Executive Director, AI Infrastructure & Platform Engineering
New York or Mississippi or Montana or North Carolina or Louisiana or Maryland or Maine or Minnesota or Nebraska or Missouri or North Dakota or New Jersey or New Mexico or Nevada or Ohio or South Carolina or Texas or Rhode Island or South Dakota or Vermont or Tennessee or Virginia or Washington or Utah or Wisconsin or West Virginia or Oregon or Wyoming or Oklahoma or Pennsylvania or Colorado or Alabama or Arizona or California or Connecticut or District of Columbia or Florida or Hawaii or Iowa or Alaska or Arkansas or Idaho or Illinois or Kansas or Delaware or Georgia or Indiana or Kentucky or Michigan or Massachusetts or New Hampshire
$175k-$335k/yrRemoteFull Time
CVS HealthNYSE: CVS: Provides retail pharmacy, health insurance, and pharmacy benefit management services.
10+ YOE5+ Mgmt10+ years engineering leadership with data center-scale infrastructure experience; hands-on bare-metal Kubernetes/OpenShift; experience with high-speed fabrics and GPU clusters; Bachelor's required.
Kubernetes, OpenShift, EKS, GKE, AKS, RoCE v2, InfiniBand, EVPN-VXLAN, Cisco UCS, NVIDIA HGX, NVIDIA DGX, NVIDIA Blackwell, VAST, NVMe, NVIDIA AI Enterprise, NVIDIA Run:AI, NVIDIA Base Command Manager, HIPAA, NIST AI RMF
Pittsburgh or Arizona or Colorado or Connecticut or Delaware or Florida or Georgia or Illinois or Indiana or Kentucky or Louisiana or Maine or Maryland or Massachusetts or Michigan or Missouri or Nebraska or Nevada or New Hampshire or New Jersey or New York or North Carolina or Ohio or Oklahoma or Oregon or Pennsylvania or South Carolina or Tennessee or Texas or Virginia or Washington or District of Columbia or West Virginia
$169k-$211k/yrHybridFull Time
Niche: Online platform for school rankings, reviews, and student recruitment.
8+ YOE3+ Mgmt8+ years in software engineering with 3+ years managing engineering managers, hands-on experience driving AI-assisted/agentic engineering adoption, experience shipping product at scale, and exposure to modern data tooling (dbt, Snowflake).
Alaska or Alabama or Arkansas or Arizona or California or Colorado or Connecticut or District of Columbia or Florida or Georgia or Hawaii or Iowa or Idaho or Illinois or Indiana or Kentucky or Louisiana or Massachusetts or Maryland or Michigan or Minnesota or Missouri or Mississippi or North Carolina or Nebraska or New Jersey or New Mexico or Nevada or New York or Ohio or Oklahoma or Oregon or Pennsylvania or Puerto Rico or Rhode Island or South Carolina or Tennessee or Texas or Utah or Virginia or Washington or Wisconsin
$153k-$297k/yrOnsiteFull Time
KPMG: Global professional services network providing audit, tax, and advisory.
8+ YOE3+ Mgmt8+ years platform engineering or enterprise IT experience, 3+ years management, bachelor\u0002s preferred, strong cybersecurity and AI integration experience, stakeholder and team leadership, relevant certifications (ISC2, ISACA, GIAC) preferred.
Chicago or Minneapolis or Cupertino or Charlotte or Cincinnati or Minneapolis or Hopkins
$160k-$188k/yrHybridFull Time
U.S. BankNYSE: USB: Provider of personal, business, and institutional financial services.
10+ YOE6+ MgmtBachelor's in CS/Engineering or equivalent, 10+ years software engineering experience, 5–6+ years managing engineering teams, experience with cloud-native platforms (Azure/AWS), distributed systems, AI/ML concepts, AI governance, security and compliance.
Des Moines or Charlotte or Raleigh or Chicago or New York
$145k-$183k/yrHybridFull Time
Principal Financial GroupNASDAQ: PFG: A global financial investment management and insurance.
8+ YOE4+ Mgmt8+ years enterprise technical experience, formal people leadership, CRM/Salesforce background, ability to influence cross-functional teams, strong communication, and global collaboration skills.
North Carolina or New York or Colorado or California or Maryland or Ohio or Virginia or New Jersey or Pennsylvania or Illinois or Georgia or Texas or Massachusetts or Florida or Connecticut
$168k-$278k/yrRemoteFull Time
Thermo Fisher ScientificNYSE: TMO: Sells equipment and chemicals for scientific research and healthcare.
12+ YOEBachelor's required (advanced degree preferred),12+ years in software/data/AI platform leadership, experience building/scaling AI/ML platforms, MLOps/LLMOps, cloud and modern data architectures, regulated environments preferred, US work authorization required, background check.
Director, Digital Insurance Platform (GTM & Product Engineering)
Bedford Park, Illinois, United States
$125k-$180k/yrOnsiteFull Time
Preferred Risk Insurance Services: Provides professional management services for the insurance industry.
8+ YOE8+ years in P&C personal lines with experience owning digital products/platforms, GTM strategy, platform architecture/APIs, data-driven optimization, and cross-functional leadership.
Senior Director Developer Platform and Experiences
United States or Santa Clara or San Francisco or Los Angeles or Austin or Washington or New York City or Kirkland or Seattle or California or Hawaii or Illinois or Massachusetts or New Hampshire or Oregon or Virginia or Washington or Alaska or Mississippi or North Dakota or Virgin Islands, U.S.
$183k-$396k/yrRemoteFull Time
GoDaddyNYSE: GDDY: Provides domain registration, web hosting, and website building tools.
10+ YOE10+ Mgmt10+ years leading large-scale engineering and platform teams; deep technical expertise in developer platforms, cloud-native systems, SDLC and CI/CD; experience with AI/ML and developer tooling; hands-on coding and transformation experience.
GE HealthCareNasdaq: GEHC: Develops and sells medical imaging and diagnostic technology.
10+ YOE10+ years designing enterprise software architectures, expertise in distributed systems, medical imaging (DICOM/PACS), cloud-native platforms, AI integration, and leading senior technical teams.
DICOM, PACS, AWS, Azure, Google Cloud, Kubernetes, C++, Python, Java, Go, CUDA
Director, Digital Insurance Platform (GTM & Product Engineering)
Bedford Park, Illinois, United States
$125k-$180k/yrOnsiteFull Time
Warrior Insurance Network: Provides auto insurance and management services for member carriers.
8+ YOE8+ years in P&C personal lines digital products or insurtech; proven experience owning digital revenue-generating platforms, GTM strategy, APIs/integrations, analytics-driven optimization, and cross-functional leadership.
ComcastNASDAQ: CMCSA: Provides global telecommunications, media content, and entertainment services.
10+ YOE10+ years relevant experience; leadership of engineering teams; ownership of Snowflake-based data platform strategy, ingestion, SLAs, and budgets; hiring and org development; Bachelor's degree preferred.
Options Clearing Corporation: Clearing and settlement for equity derivatives and options.
15+ YOE5+ MgmtExecutive leadership of SRE and platform engineering in a regulated industry; cloud architecture governance; product management for FinOps/SecOps.
Crate and Barrel: Retails furniture, kitchenware, and home decor products.
15+ YOE7+ Mgmt15+ years data engineering experience,7+ years management,degree in CS/Engineering or related,experience with cloud data platforms (BigQuery),strong executive leadership and strategic data vision.
San Francisco or Atlanta or Chicago or Los Angeles or New York
$130k-$160k/yrHybridFull Time
MonksLondon Stock Exchange: SFOR: A global digital marketing and technology services agency
5+ YOE5+ years data engineering experience, bachelor’s or master’s in quantitative field (or equivalent), expertise with Python, SQL, Databricks, Git, cloud-native data platforms, and DataOps/CI-CD practices.
System Architect Director - AI Platform Engineering
Chicago, Illinois, United States
$97k-$189k/yrHybridFull Time
CNANYSE: CNA: Provides commercial property and casualty insurance and risk management.
10+ YOE5+ MgmtRequires 10+ years software engineering, 5+ years architecture and people leadership, Bachelor's in CS/SE/IT (Master's preferred), deep AI/GenAI platform and GCP experience, Python proficiency, and SAFe leadership.
Lang Graph, Google ADK, Vertex AI, Cloud Run, GKE, Pub/Sub, BigQuery, GCP Agent Builder, Gemini, Python, SAFe, CI/CD, AIOps
Publicis GroupeEuronext Paris: PUB: Global advertising and digital transformation agency holding.
5+ YOE5+ years developing large-scale database solutions; 6+ years SQL, 5+ years ETL, 7+ years analyzing data; experience with data warehouse design, ETL, file formats (JSON, XML, ORC, AVRO, Parquet), cloud platforms, and BI tools; BS preferred.