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# Staff Agentic Software Engineer at cmegroup

Compensation

$125,800 – $209,600/yr

**Setup**
: Hybrid

**Location**
: Chicago, Illinois

**Type**
: Full-time

**Level**
: staff+

**Posted**
: Oct 2, 2026

## Description

CME Group is hiring a Staff Agentic Software Engineer for a hybrid position in its Chicago office. The role leads the transition to agentic software engineering while architecting and developing high-volume, low-latency Java applications on Google Cloud Platform for mission-critical real-time positions and risk management systems. Responsibilities include building agent infrastructure, automated evaluation and testing harnesses, CI/CD guardrails, distributed systems, and mentoring engineers. The position requires a bachelor’s degree or higher and at least 8 years of experience building scalable real-time systems, with expertise in Java, Spring, GCP, Kafka, Flink, SQL, Postgres, Python, and production reliability practices.

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