project44

Senior Software Engineer

project44 · Chicago

Posted 5 days ago

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Is this posting real?

This role has been open
5 days
project44's roles stay open a median of 35 days
Reposted
No
Salary listed
No
24% of project44's roles list one
Ghost-job risk at project44
moderate
11 stale, 0 reposted of 34 open
Hiring momentum
66 roles opened in the last 90 days
↑ up vs. the prior 90 days
Last confirmed on the employer's board
2026-09-17

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About this role

As a Senior Software Engineer at project44, you will design, build, and implement cloud infrastructure strategies while leading technical initiatives in a fast-paced Agile environment. Your responsibilities will include maintaining a high-throughput, real-time data platform, evolving CI/CD pipelines, and mentoring other engineers. You will also focus on cost optimization and ensure observability and reliability practices are followed across the infrastructure.

Our read on this posting3.2out of 5
benefits
2/5
freshness
5/5
career value
4/5
role clarity
5/5
pay transparency
0/5

Scored from the posting itself — how clearly the role is described, how much it says about pay and benefits, and how recently it was listed. Not a judgement of project44 as an employer.

What you need

  • 6+ years of experience in DevOps, Site Reliability Engineering, or Infrastructure Engineering roles
  • Deep expertise with a major cloud provider (AWS preferred; GCP or Azure also relevant)
  • Strong hands-on experience with infrastructure-as-code (Terraform, CloudFormation, or Pulumi)
  • Proven track record building and scaling CI/CD pipelines (e.g., Jenkins, GitHub Actions, GitLab CI, CircleCI, ArgoCD)
  • Solid scripting/programming ability in Python, Go, or Bash
  • Experience building and operating complex distributed systems

Nice to have

  • Experience developing solutions leveraging Docker
  • Configuration management experience with Ansible or Terraform
  • Building/implementing monitoring for network, server, application, and database layers
  • Experience with monitoring tools such as Zabbix, Nagios, Grafana, CloudWatch
  • Experience with APM tools such as New Relic, AppDynamics, Datadog, Runscope

What you get

  • Base salary range of USD130,000 – USD190,000
  • Stock options for all EOR and project44-employed team members
  • Bonus or commission eligibility depending on role
  • Benefits package tailored to your country of employment, which may include health, dental, and vision coverage, retirement plans, and paid time off

Worth weighing

  • In-office commitment of 3 days a week
  • No specific mention of remote work flexibility
  • Candidates must be authorized to work in the US without employer-sponsored visa support

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Listed by project44 on their greenhouse job board, last confirmed open on 2026-09-17. PitchMeAI is not the employer.

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