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title: 'Senior Software Engineer - DevOps/SRE at project44'
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# Senior Software Engineer - DevOps/SRE at project44

- **Company:** project44
- **Location:** Chicago, IL
- **Posted:** 2026-09-11
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-10-16
- **Apply:** https://job-boards.greenhouse.io/project44/jobs/8179763

## Job description

Why project44?

At project44, we believe in better.

We challenge the status quo because we know a better supply chain isn’t just possible—it’s essential. Better for our customers. Better for their business. Better for the world.

With our Decision Intelligence Platform, Movement, we’re redefining how global supply chains operate. By transforming fragmented logistics data into real-time, AI-powered insights, we empower companies to connect instantly, see clearly, act decisively, and automate intelligently. Our Supply Chain AI enhances visibility, drives smarter execution, and unlocks next-gen applications that keep businesses moving forward.

Headquartered in Chicago, IL with a 2nd HQ in Bengaluru, India we are powered by a diverse global team that is tackling the toughest logistics challenges with innovation, urgency, and purpose.

AI at project44

We expect every project44 team member, regardless of role or function, to actively leverage AI in their day-to-day work. Whether you're building product, serving customers, managing people, or running operations, AI is a tool you're expected to use with intent, curiosity, and judgment. We don't expect everyone to be a data scientist. We do expect everyone to be an intelligent user of AI: able to identify where it adds value, direct it effectively, evaluate outputs critically, and govern it responsibly. We invest in our team's AI fluency because we believe it's a competitive advantage for every person at project44, not just our engineers

If you’re driven to solve meaningful problems, leverage AI to scale rapidly, drive impact daily, and be part of a high-performance team – we should talk.

## 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.

Key Accountabilities: What you'll work on

- Design, build, and operate core infrastructure across our primary GCP environment and secondary AWS footprint, leveraging managed services to deliver scalable, reliable, and cost-effective solutions
- Own and evolve our Kubernetes (GKE) platform—cluster lifecycle management, node pool strategy, networking, RBAC, and workload reliability—ensuring developer teams can ship safely and quickly
- Build and maintain Terraform-based infrastructure-as-code across cloud environments, enforcing standards for modularity, state management, and repeatable, auditable provisioning
- Manage and improve our Kafka and Strimzi streaming infrastructure, supporting high-throughput event pipelines that are foundational to project44's real-time data capabilities
- Lead and execute cost optimization initiatives—rightsizing compute, improving resource utilization, reducing waste, and creating visibility and accountability for cloud spend across engineering teams
- Champion observability and reliability practices — SLOs/SLIs, incident response, on-call processes, and postmortems — to reduce MTTR and prevent recurrence.
- Partner with application engineering teams to define and implement platform standards for deployment, scaling, service mesh, secrets management, and infrastructure security
- Participate in a team on-call rotation, debugging and resolving infrastructure and platform incidents with urgency and rigor
- Contribute to technical design discussions, architecture reviews, and documentation—helping set a high bar for quality, reliability, and operational excellence across the engineering organization
- Mentor and support other engineers through code reviews, pairing, and technical guidance
- Evaluate and introduce new tools, platforms, and automation to continuously modernize the infrastructure stack.
- Drive cost-optimization initiatives across cloud spend without compromising reliability or performance.

Qualities

- Strong communication skills, with the ability to clearly explain infrastructure decisions through design docs, postmortems, and cross-functional discussions, and collaborate effectively with both technical and non-technical partners
- A strong analytical approach to problem-solving, with comfort navigating ambiguity and making tradeoffs explicit—especially across reliability, velocity, and cost
- A sense of ownership, curiosity, and resilience—comfortable voicing ideas, incorporating feedback, and iterating toward better solutions
- A platform-minded builder who thinks about the engineers and systems they enable, not just the infrastructure they manage

## Qualifications

- 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)
- Infrastructure-as-code using Terraform—module design, state management, CI-driven plan/apply workflows, and drift detection
- Google Cloud Platform (GCP) across core services: GKE, GCS, Cloud NAT, VPC networking, IAM, Artifact Registry, and related managed services
- Cloud observability tooling and practices—building meaningful dashboards, alerts, SLI/SLO frameworks, and runbooks regardless of the tool stack
- Cloud networking fundamentals: VPCs, subnetting, private connectivity, DNS, load balancing, and security group/firewall design
- Cloud cost management: identifying and executing on optimization opportunities, building spend visibility, and influencing engineering behavior around resource efficiency

Desirable and helpful (but not necessary):

- Experience with AWS services alongside a primary GCP environment
- Scripting or automation in Python, Go, Bash, or similar for operational tooling
- Experience with service mesh technologies (Istio, Linkerd) or advanced Kubernetes networking (Cilium, Calico)
- Familiarity with CI/CD systems and GitOps patterns (ArgoCD, Flux, or similar)
- Experience building or operating developer platform capabilities (internal developer platforms, golden paths, self-service provisioning)
- Using AI-assisted development tools for infrastructure automation, runbook generation, or operational tooling (e.g., Claude, GitHub Copilot, or similar)

Work Authorization: Candidates must be authorized to work in the US without current or future employer-sponsored visa support.

In-office Commitment: Our office is where ideas spark, connections thrive, and innovation comes alive. We are looking for candidates who are enthusiastic and committed to joining our team on-site, in our beautiful headquarters 3 days a week. Together, we’re building something extraordinary—learn, grow, and thrive in our fast-paced, transformative environment.

We continually evaluate our pay ranges to reflect skills, experience, and market conditions. The base salary offered will be determined by assessing a candidate's experience and skills relative to the scope and responsibilities of the position, as well as the specific geographic location where the job will be performed. Base salary is one component of project44's total compensation package, which also includes stock options for all EOR and project44-employed team members, bonus or commission eligibility depending on role, and a benefits package tailored to your country of employment. Specific benefits package offerings vary by country and may include health, dental, and vision coverage, retirement plans, and paid time off, in line with local market standards and statutory programs. The base salary range for this position is USD 130,000 – USD 190,000

Diversity & Inclusion

At project44, we're designing the future of how the world moves. As we work to deliver a truly world-class product, we're intentionally building teams that reflect the unique communities we serve. We're focused on creating a company where all team members can bring their authentic selves to work every day.

project44 is an equal opportunity employer. If you share our values and passion for the future of logistics, we'd love to review your application. Even if you don't meet 100% of the requirements, please consider applying — studies show you can still be a strong candidate at 50%.

For any accommodation needed during the hiring process, please email recruiting@project44.com.

## About project44

## Core Business
- Primary industries: Supply chain logistics, real-time transportation visibility, decision intelligence
- Target customers: B2B, enterprise (large retailers, automotive, spirits, etc.)
- Mission: “To enable a world where supply chains are resilient, intelligent, and proactive”

## Products & Services
- **Intelligent Shipment & Inventory Visibility**: Real-time tracking across all modes and nodes, powered by the world’s largest logistics data graph.
- **Intelligent Yard Management**: Dynamic scheduling, prioritization, and movement orchestration using real-time conditions.
- **Intelligent e-Commerce Logistics**: Last-mile delivery optimization with predictive alerts and proactive customer communications.
- **Intelligent Transportation Management**: Multimodal rating, booking, and planning with real-time market intelligence and autonomous rate negotiation.

## Market Standing
- **Valuation/Market Cap**: Not disclosed
- **Key Metric**: 1.5B+ shipments across the network annually; 700M+ logistics events processed daily; 267K carriers connected globally; 99% connected logistics facilities; 3.7T validated data points annually; 8B external risk signals captured daily
- **Notable Investors/Partners**: Not specified in provided sources (awards mention Google Cloud, SAP, and Gartner Peer Insights Customers’ Choice)
- **Growth Signals**: 2025 FreightWaves AI Excellence in Supply Chain Award; 2023 Google Cloud Partner of the Year for Supply Chain & Logistics; 2023 SAP Pinnacle Award for Cloud Partner Integration; global offices in Chicago, Bengaluru, Kraków, Aalborg, Amsterdam, Chennai, Hamburg, Munich, São Paulo

## Competitive Advantages
- Largest and most accurate real-time logistics data graph, enabling AI agents to detect, decide, and act autonomously.
- 99% data validation and cleansing rate, creating a reliable foundation for predictive insights.
- Proven results: $16M cost avoided during Baltimore Bridge collapse, 72% reduction in detention/demurrage fees, 86% reduction in gate wait time, $12M annual savings from safety stock reduction for a $300B+ manufacturer.
- Strong customer references from iconic global brands.

## Strategic Focus
- Building an autonomous supply chain that self-optimizes, anticipates disruptions, and adapts in real-time.
- Expanding AI agent orchestration across visibility, yard, e-commerce, and transportation management.
- Deepening integrations with cloud partners (Google Cloud, SAP) and enhancing data integrity.

## Why Work Here
- Culture of trust and transparency: values include “Obsess over the customer,” “Build trust through real talk,” “Share the wheel,” and “Roll up your sleeves.”
- Strong emphasis on diversity, sustainability, and inclusion with team member communities.
- Global, hybrid/remote work options (e.g., Chicago roles listed as “Hybrid OR Remote”).
- Engineering and data science teams are central to the product; the company is “a team of technologists and logistics experts working together to change the world.”
- Awards and recognition reinforce a high-quality, innovative environment.

## Sources
1. [project44 Company Page](https://www.project44.com/company/)
2. [project44 Careers Page](https://www.project44.com/company/careers/)
3. [project44 Platform Page](https://www.project44.com/)
4. [Greenhouse Job Board](http://job-boards.greenhouse.io/project44)

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