Jobs
I pull these straight from each employer’s own careers feed, read each posting to say what the role actually is, and link out to the authoritative listing — no aggregators, no reposts.
66 active postings · 9 AI required · 21 AI mentioned · 36 no AI mention.
Summary
This is a senior cloud security engineering role for Wintrust. The person designs and improves security across Azure, multi-cloud and hybrid environments, implements Entra ID, RBAC, VNets, NSGs, Private Endpoints, encryption and Defender for Cloud or CNAPP controls, drives cloud threat detection and response, embeds security into ARM, Bicep and Terraform pipelines, enforces MFA and Conditional Access, and aligns cloud risk posture with compliance requirements.
AI-keyword evidence: artificial intelligence
Summary
This is a senior network and firewall security engineering role for Cboe's global offices and data centers. The person designs, deploys, migrates, and troubleshoots Palo Alto firewall environments, segmentation, SSL decryption, routing, packet analysis, and secure connectivity across infrastructure and security teams.
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A security engineering role for Uline in Pleasant Prairie, WI; Milwaukee, WI; Waukegan, IL; Glenview, IL; Kenosha, WI. The work is about hardening systems, identity or control design, monitoring, and operational security rather than general application feature delivery.
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This is a lead security engineering role for OCC's hybrid infrastructure. The person maintains cloud and on-premises security integrity, enforces security-as-code standards, leads critical cloud service rollouts, builds automation pipelines for provisioning and compliance, partners on secure cloud technology deployments, and improves security processes and tools.
AI-keyword evidence: claude code
Summary
This is a security-engineering role rather than a generic title-only opening. The JD points to hands-on work around Kubernetes, CI/CD automation, and AWS, so the fit depends on wanting that specific slice of the role.
AI-keyword evidence: ai
Summary
An application-security engineering role at food distributor KeHE, reducing software risk by embedding security into the secure SDLC. The work is hands-on AppSec — partnering with engineering teams on secure architecture and threat modeling, implementing and tuning SAST, DAST, SCA, secrets, container, and IaC scanning in CI/CD, running risk-based vulnerability management, and improving developer enablement with reusable secure patterns — plus a growing remit to shape security practices for emerging AI and agentic tools (GenAI assessments and guardrails). A fit for an AppSec engineer who wants to build a vulnerability-operations function and secure modern API, microservice, and cloud architectures; based in Naperville, IL.
AI-keyword evidence: ai , llm, genai
Summary
This is a senior Azure architecture role with a strong security and compliance remit. The person designs landing zones, hybrid cloud environments, IaC, CI/CD, Microsoft Defender, Sentinel, identity controls, and audit-ready security patterns for regulated clients.
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An advanced product-security engineering role partnering with Zebra product development teams to reduce security risk across the product portfolio. The work includes secure SDLC leadership, shift-left secure coding practices, vulnerability and secrets management, security-tool integration, CI/CD security controls, audits, and cross-functional guidance; the role is hybrid from Lincolnshire or another listed Zebra office.
AI-keyword evidence: ai
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A senior cybersecurity-architect role on West Monroe's Cybersecurity & Enterprise Technology practice, focused on modernizing clients' security operations centers with automation, AI-enabled workflows, and agentic security operations. You would assess current-state SOC capabilities, design future-state operating models that incorporate AI-assisted investigation and human-in-the-loop decisioning, develop SOC-modernization roadmaps, improve detection engineering, and automate investigation and response — serving as a trusted advisor to CISOs and cyber-defense teams. A fit for an experienced security architect who understands modern SOC design across people, process, data, automation, and AI (SIEM/SOAR, threat intel, agentic workflows), with a preference for Energy & Utilities critical-infrastructure experience and Google SecOps a plus; based across West Monroe's US offices.
AI-keyword evidence: agentic workflow, agentic workflows
Summary
A managing-director role at West Monroe leading and growing its cybersecurity practice — a market-facing, growth-oriented leadership role that is heavily business-development-focused rather than hands-on technical. The core responsibilities are developing executive relationships (CISOs, CTOs, CIOs, PE investors), originating and closing new cybersecurity business across strategy, risk management, and transaction services, developing go-to-market strategies for AI-focused cybersecurity offerings (AI governance, secure AI adoption), and serving as a trusted advisor and thought leader, often partnering with West Monroe's M&A and private-equity teams. A fit for a seasoned cybersecurity leader with deep advisory expertise and a strong professional network who can create demand and build pipeline; based across West Monroe's US offices.
AI-keyword evidence: ai , artificial intelligence
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This is a senior network security engineering role for Wintrust. The person governs enterprise network security design and improvement, optimizes firewall rules and NGFW policies, manages DNS, proxy, DDI and IPAM security, works with TCP/IP, BGP, OSPF, EIGRP, SD-WAN, VPN, IDS/IPS, WAF, NAC and NDR technologies, supports hybrid-cloud network security and evaluates tools such as AlgoSec, Cisco Firepower, Infoblox, Cloudflare WAF and Cisco Secure Web Appliance.
Summary
A cybersecurity engineering role focused on artificial-intelligence security at Wintrust. The job sits in a banking security context and is for someone shaping secure use of AI systems, controls, and engineering practices rather than a general helpdesk or operations role.
AI-keyword evidence: ai , artificial intelligence, machine learning, llm
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This is a cybersecurity compliance consulting role for Impact Networking's Dot Security team. The person performs gap analyses, advises clients on regulatory compliance programs, monitors state and federal requirements, coordinates compliance-plan changes with client stakeholders, and works onsite from the Security Operations Center.
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A senior-director role at Prolaio owning information-security and cloud-operations strategy for its AI-driven, cloud-first healthcare platform, running continuous-security and continuous-compliance against HITRUST, ISO 27001 and 42001, HIPAA, and FDA expectations using modern DevSecOps and security-as-code. It is a senior security-and-cloud leadership seat for a regulated AI health product.
AI-keyword evidence: ai engineer, vector database
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A security-analyst role on Stripe's security team focused on bug-bounty triage and researcher engagement — owning the end-to-end lifecycle of vulnerability reports from Stripe's bug bounty program. You would analyze, reproduce, and triage incoming reports, communicate with security researchers to drive clarity and engagement, understand root causes to help product and engineering teams fix issues, and continuously improve the program. A fit for a technical, detail-oriented analyst with familiarity in web security (OWASP Top 10, CWEs), competence with offensive tools like Burp Suite, an attacker's mindset, and clear communication; remote in North America.
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A specialized VP role as a testifying digital-forensics expert witness at LevelBlue, providing sworn testimony in depositions, hearings, and trials (including class-action defense), authoring expert reports, and conducting forensic investigations across endpoints, cloud, and email. It demands courtroom-ready communication and litigation experience alongside deep DFIR skill, a niche expert-witness seat.
Summary
An associate-principal security engineer at the options clearinghouse managing privileged access systems (CyberArk, HashiCorp, PKI) with 24x7 support and AI-based security capabilities. This appears to be a second opening of the same role as REQ-4436. Chicago.
AI-keyword evidence: claude code
Summary
A senior threat-hunting security engineer at an exchange operator, proactively hunting threats across the firm's market-infrastructure environment. Chicago.
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A security engineer at Optiver protecting and monitoring the firm's global cloud (AWS, M365) and on-prem systems, with incident response and security automation. Security engineering at the Chicago market maker.
AI-keyword evidence: ai engineer
Summary
A platform-security engineering role focused on bringing AI security tooling into CNA's enterprise environment. The work covers vendor evaluation, implementation, integration, adoption, and long-term operation of selected AI security technologies, rather than general security policy work.
AI-keyword evidence: ai , llm, genai
Summary
A security-engineering role at Stripe, working closely with product engineering teams to make Stripe's core products (Connect, Subscriptions, Checkout, RADAR, Issuing) and AI/LLM integrations secure by default. The work includes leading threat-modeling discussions, building automated threat-modeling tooling, identifying and reducing security debt across the product portfolio, and scaling security through automation, guidance, patterns, and training — plus securing AI and LLM usage. A fit for an engineer with 5+ years of security engineering, multi-cloud (AWS plus GCP or Azure) and application and infrastructure-security experience, and containerization expertise; South San Francisco or US remote, posted range $194,251 to $268,400.
AI-keyword evidence: ai , llm
Summary
A senior individual-contributor application-security role at the center of a new AI-augmented application security program built for a SaaS engineering org where AI agents and human developers ship code together at high velocity. The role owns code and security of the products and is described in places as a Senior AI Application Security Engineer. Fully remote within the United States.
AI-keyword evidence: claude code, cursor
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A senior-manager role leading United Airlines' 24/7 Cyber Security Operations Center, driving incident response and AI-driven security operations for a global airline. It centers on strategy, talent development, threat-detection engineering, and human-in-the-loop governance, a SOC-leadership seat rather than hands-on analysis.
AI-keyword evidence: ai
Summary
A security engineer on DRW's client-platforms (endpoint) team, securing the firm's employee devices and the systems they access. Endpoint-security engineering at the Chicago prop trader.
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An embedded product-security role for Zebra's Print and Encode business unit, focused on thermal printers, barcode scanners, software, and firmware. The work is threat modeling, secure-by-design architecture reviews, SSDLC controls, code reviews, penetration/security assessments, customer security responses, vulnerability remediation, and developer training; it is hybrid in Lincolnshire.
AI-keyword evidence: ai
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A cloud-security architect in Gallagher's global cyber organization: maturing the cloud-security architecture approach, authoring standards and reference designs, and reviewing solutions with infrastructure and business teams worldwide. Security architecture and influence rather than hands-on engineering; contract (temp-to-hire W-2), remote US.
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A hands-on IAM analyst role at Ensono performing day-to-day identity and access management, provisioning, modifying, and de-provisioning user accounts and access across mainframe, cloud, and enterprise systems, processing access requests, and supporting audits. It is a detail-oriented operational IAM seat rather than an architecture role.
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A senior identity-and-access-management engineering role at Moveworks (a ServiceNow company), and notably a hands-on developer role — coding, designing, building, and scaling IAM solutions across cloud infrastructure, SaaS applications, and internal systems. You would own IAM initiatives end to end: developing robust access models across AWS, Azure, and Kubernetes (with tools like Teleport and Terraform), reducing privilege sprawl through thoughtful role design, building observability through SIEM logging and metrics, modernizing user access reviews, and continuously de-risking IAM threats. A fit for an engineer who treats secure access as an enabler and is comfortable architecting and operationalizing automated IAM, not just designing it; based in Chicago.
AI-keyword evidence: ai
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A security-software-engineering role (level II) on Pinterest's Security Operations team, building the systems, automation, and operational workflows that keep Pinterest secure day to day. The work spans cloud security, access management, automation, and secure infrastructure — writing production-ready code and infrastructure-as-code, improving security workflows like access controls, cloud guardrails, and service hardening, and using AI to reduce manual toil while protecting sensitive data. A fit for an engineer with cloud, security, and/or software-engineering experience building and operating production services and internal tools; based in Chicago or remote in the US.
AI-keyword evidence: ai , ai-assisted
Summary
A principal-engineer role at United Airlines focused on aircraft cybersecurity, safeguarding avionics, embedded, and cabin systems through security testing, embedded and product security, cryptography, and risk assessment while ensuring compliance with aviation standards. It is a deeply technical aviation-cybersecurity seat (remote) at the intersection of embedded security and aircraft systems.
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A senior-manager role leading the IAM practice at managed-services provider Ensono, supporting a State Street IAM integration and migration effort with end-to-end solution-architecture oversight. It pairs deep IAM expertise with pre-sales and business-development work and managing IAM engineers and architects, a practice-leadership seat that is partly client- and pre-sales-facing.
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A security engineering role designing, building, and scaling enterprise vulnerability management systems across Keeper's cloud, application, and corporate environments, covering vulnerability discovery, prioritization, automation, and offensive security initiatives. This is a security-focused role rather than product development. It is 100% remote in the US, with an optional hybrid schedule for candidates near El Dorado Hills, CA or Chicago, IL.
Summary
A senior identity-and-access-management engineer role at Ensono owning the RSA Governance and Lifecycle platform end to end. The work is identity governance: managing entitlement collection, configuring Joiner-Mover-Leaver provisioning, running access-review campaigns and certifications, and building Access Request Manager workflows and Segregation-of-Duties rules. It suits an IAM specialist with hands-on RSA Governance and Lifecycle experience and some custom workflow coding.
AI-keyword evidence: llm
Summary
A cybersecurity-consultant role at West Monroe, providing strategic cybersecurity advisory, due diligence, and consulting for enterprise clients — including its CAPE program (Cybersecurity Advisory for Private Equity) that gives PE firms visibility into security risks across their portfolio. The work spans risk and controls reviews using frameworks like NIST CSF, assessments and audits to identify vulnerabilities and gauge a client's ability to detect and respond to threats, threat hunting with the firm's proprietary Intellio Hunt tool, and thought leadership. A fit for someone with 3 years in cybersecurity, information security, or tech consulting across domains like risk and compliance, incident response, or cloud security who is comfortable conveying complex concepts to varied audiences; hybrid with up to 50% travel, no sponsorship.
AI-keyword evidence: ai , artificial intelligence, gpt, generative ai
Summary
An associate-principal security engineer at the options clearinghouse managing privileged access systems (CyberArk, HashiCorp, PKI) with 24x7 operational support, implementing AI-based security capabilities and helping shape security architecture. Chicago.
AI-keyword evidence: claude code
Summary
A principal cybersecurity engineering role inside Federal Reserve Financial Services, securing the national payments platforms (FedNow, Fedwire, FedACH, FedLine, Check Services). It is payments-security engineering at principal level rather than app development; posted across multiple districts.
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A senior security-software-engineering role on Pinterest's Application Security team, helping keep its 619 million monthly users safe by building tooling, product enhancements, and the platform behind its secure development lifecycle. You would design and build the rules, processes, and platform for the SDLC, deliver and review well-tested code, conduct security and design reviews, and rework controls to address both increased AI-driven productivity and new AI threats. A fit for an engineer with 5+ years in product or application security and proficiency in a dynamic language like Python; remote (with rare in-office collaboration), posted range $155,584 to $320,320.
AI-keyword evidence: ai
Summary
A security operations role focused on running and scaling enterprise security controls across Keeper's global organization, with the JD explicitly noting it centers on security operations execution and control ownership rather than observability platform engineering or application security program leadership. The work ties into Keeper's PAM platform and AI-driven threat detection. The position is 100% remote in the US, with an optional hybrid schedule for candidates near El Dorado Hills, CA or Chicago, IL.
Summary
A senior security-compliance engineering role at Keeper Security leading technical implementation and maintenance of FedRAMP High and DoD IL5 compliance for its AWS-based products, implementing and validating cloud security controls, continuous monitoring, and remediation with cloud and platform engineering. It is a hands-on compliance-engineering seat (100 percent remote) at the intersection of AWS security and federal authorization.
Summary
A senior-manager cybersecurity consulting role at West Monroe focused on M&A — serving as cybersecurity lead on carve-out, merger-integration, and other transaction engagements. You would roadmap and build cybersecurity programs through a cyber-resiliency lens (leading discovery and solutioning workshops, assessing the security operating model, and estimating one-time transition and go-forward run-rate costs), introduce controls to newly formed or merged organizations, lead Day 1 readiness and transition execution, manage private-equity-executive relationships, and drive business development. A fit for someone with 8 to 12+ years in cybersecurity and familiarity with carve-out and merger-integration M&A dynamics across security domains (identity, data, cloud, SecOps); based across West Monroe's US offices.
AI-keyword evidence: ai , artificial intelligence, gpt, generative ai
Summary
A senior technical product-manager role at Keeper Security leading the KeeperPAM privileged-access-management platform, a deeply technical PM who codes, collaborates, and ships like an engineer. It is mostly remote and suits a hands-on product manager with strong PAM and zero-trust domain knowledge.
Summary
A detection-engineering role building and operating SIEM, detection logic, and security telemetry across Keeper's cloud-native production and corporate environments. The work centers on security visibility and detection maturity rather than general software development. It is 100% remote in the US, with an optional hybrid schedule for candidates near El Dorado Hills, CA or Chicago, IL.
Summary
A machine learning engineering role on the AI & Threat Analytics team, building ML systems to detect threats within privileged access sessions at high accuracy and low latency. The work targets a specific cybersecurity problem — spotting attacks against privileged accounts on Keeper's PAM platform. It is 100% remote in the US, with an optional hybrid schedule for candidates near El Dorado Hills, CA or Chicago, IL.
AI-keyword evidence: machine learning engineer
Summary
A technical-program-management role on Stripe's Organization Access Platform (OAP) team, driving critical identity-and-access security programs across multiple teams — a program-management role, not a hands-on engineering one. You would lead end-to-end programs for initiatives like API-key security, account-takeover (ATO) prevention, and login access controls, manage cross-team dependencies, develop implementation roadmaps, establish security metrics, and facilitate trade-off decisions between security, user experience, and timelines. A fit for someone with 5+ years of technical program management on security-focused initiatives, a strong grasp of API security, authentication, and access controls, and the ability to influence across teams without direct authority; remote US or in Chicago or Atlanta.
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A senior QA analyst role on Keeper Security's Privileged Access Management team, ensuring the quality, reliability, and security of the KeeperPAM platform and Keeper Secrets Manager integrations. It is a QA and test seat embedded in a PAM product (100 percent remote from select locations), suited to QA engineers comfortable with security and platform integrations.
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A senior application-security role on Nerdio's growing security team, building out the AppSec program from inception — its strategy, processes, and tooling — and integrating security into design reviews, threat modeling, code reviews, and penetration testing across web, mobile, and API products. It calls for 10+ years in application security, someone who has led the initial stand-up of an AppSec program, and familiarity with common vulnerabilities and SAST/DAST tooling. The role is remote within the United States.
AI-keyword evidence: fine-tune
Summary
A staff-level product-security engineering role leading the design and implementation of secure, scalable products spanning AI, data, and cloud-native systems. The work embeds security by design across the product lifecycle in close collaboration with engineering, data science, and infrastructure teams. Listed as fully remote within the United States.
AI-keyword evidence: ai , llm
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A hands-on IAM engineering role at PEAK6 owning the identity layer across its financial-services, broker-dealer, insurance, and technology portfolio, hardening privileged accounts, automating the joiner/mover/leaver lifecycle, cleaning up risky OAuth grants, and building control evidence for GLBA and SEC requirements. It partners with US and Budapest teams and ties directly to regulatory obligations.
Summary
A senior-manager cybersecurity consulting role at West Monroe in its Strategy & Advisory practice, providing strategic cybersecurity consulting from strategy definition through implementation — with significant work in private equity (carve-outs, mergers, and acquisitions). You would lead risk assessments and controls reviews using frameworks like NIST, manage client relationships and translate requirements into proposals and work plans, lead and mentor junior consultants, and drive thought leadership and business development. A fit for someone with 7 to 10+ years in cybersecurity (including M&A cyber due diligence) and broad knowledge of compliance frameworks (SOC, ISO, PCI DSS, FedRAMP, GDPR) and security competencies; travel 15-20%, no sponsorship.
AI-keyword evidence: ai , artificial intelligence, gpt, generative ai
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An identity and access management engineer specializing in Microsoft Entra ID, designing and supporting IAM products across enterprise infrastructure and business-line applications, tracking adoption and resilience of the IAM service. An Entra/IAM specialization behind a general security-engineer title. Chicago.
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An offensive product security engineering role at Origami Risk. The work is penetration testing, threat modeling, code review, controlled attack simulation, vulnerability triage, remediation guidance, security documentation, incident support, and embedding security practices into the product development lifecycle.
AI-keyword evidence: ai
Summary
A cloud-security architect at W.W. Grainger, designing and hardening the security of the distributor's cloud platforms in partnership with IT and security teams. Hybrid out of the Lake Forest, IL headquarters. A senior security-architecture role; disclosed range roughly 146k to 244k plus incentive.
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A senior security-engineering role at Paylocity focused on Web Application Firewall and application-layer defense, within its newly established Product Security function. You would architect, implement, and continuously improve WAF and Layer 7 security controls protecting web, API, and AI workflows beyond traditional authentication — leading enforcement strategy, maturing detection of Layer 7 threats and behavioral abuse, and supporting Product Security Incident Response (PSIRT) as the subject-matter expert for application-layer risk. A fit for a security engineer with deep WAF, Layer 7 threat, and abuse-mitigation expertise; fully remote in the US.
AI-keyword evidence: ai
Summary
A vulnerability-assessment engineering role at Paylocity, conducting comprehensive vulnerability assessments across networks, systems, applications, and third-party vendors, then prioritizing risks and coordinating remediation with internal teams and system owners. The work includes developing and maintaining vulnerability-management policies, providing technical analysis and standardized reporting, supporting cloud-security initiatives, and automating processes for scalability — while staying current on emerging threats. A fit for a security engineer focused on vulnerability management and risk-based remediation in a cloud SaaS environment; fully remote in the US.
AI-keyword evidence: llm
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Every posting is classified into one of three AI buckets: AI required when the description names specific AI tools as required skills (GitHub Copilot, Claude Code, Cursor) or names LLM/agent/RAG/embeddings as core to the day-to-day; AI mentioned when the description mentions AI tooling in passing without it being the core skill; No AI mention when the description contains none of the relevant keywords. Each row shows the matched keyword evidence inline and surfaces named AI developer-productivity tools as expanded-row chips, so you can judge the signal for yourself.
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Roughly monthly · in-person · Chicago
Local chapter of the AI Tinkerers network for hands-on AI builders. Three-hour sessions of live demos from people shipping AI agents, RAG systems, voice interfaces, and production AI infra — working prototypes and lessons, not sales talks.
free
Monthly · in-person · Chicago
User-run AWS community holding free monthly evening events in the Loop with rotating host offices and two to three non-sales technical talks. Also runs the annual ChiBrrCon cloud conference each winter.
free
Weekly, Tuesdays 6 PM · hybrid · 750 N Orleans (Braintree office), Chicago
Chicago's weekly civic-technology night: a 45-minute talk from someone working with open data or civic tech, then self-organizing breakout groups that build apps and dig into local data. One of the country's most established civic-tech communities; welcoming to newcomers.
free
Periodic · in-person · Chicago
Developer-oriented AI/ML community running tech talks, workshops, and code labs, frequently featuring engineering leads from Chicago companies and startups working on LLMs and applied machine learning.
free
Periodic · in-person · Chicago
CNCF cloud-native community group for Chicago engineers working with containers, Kubernetes, and the surrounding cloud-native tooling. Talk-and-networking format at local tech offices.
free
Monthly · in-person · Chicago
Downtown Chicago user group for .NET and open-source developers, covering web, cloud, desktop, and application architecture. A separate Chicago .NET Mobile Developers group covers cross-platform mobile.
free
2nd Wednesday monthly · in-person · Hashrocket (West Loop), Chicago
Elixir, Phoenix, and Erlang meetup that gathers monthly at the Hashrocket office in the West Loop, with food provided by sponsors. Functional-programming-focused talks and discussion.
free
Organizers: Hashrocket
Monthly · in-person · Chicago
Face-to-face user group for the R statistical programming language, supported by the R Consortium's RUGs program. Shares slides and code on GitHub; welcoming to analysts and statisticians at any level.
free
Periodic · in-person · Chicago
Chicago's Go programming language meetup. Has a standing Meetup.com presence but a recent-event cadence I couldn't confirm this pass, so flagged uncertain pending re-verification.
free
may be inactive
Monthly + hack nights · in-person · Chicago
Ruby and Rails community running talks and hands-on hack nights across Chicago and the suburbs, with long-standing ties to the 8th Light consultancy. Friendly to people new to Ruby.
free
Organizers: 8th Light
2nd Thursday monthly · hybrid · Chicago
Chicago's long-running official Python user group, with monthly talks hosted at rotating downtown company offices plus a structured mentorship program. Draws a broad crowd from data, web, and scientific-Python backgrounds.
free
Monthly · hybrid · Chicago
One of the oldest Java user groups in the country, running monthly evening talks (now organized on Luma after leaving Meetup.com in 2025) and co-hosting the regional Great Lakes Software Symposium. Often collaborates with the Chicago Kotlin and virtual Java groups.
free
Periodic · in-person · Chicago
Group for developers, operators, engineers, and managers sharing DevOps practices around CI/CD, infrastructure, and reliability. Talk-and-discussion format.
free
Monthly (talks) · in-person · Aon Center, 200 E Randolph St, Chicago
The rebranded Chicago JavaScript group, now a broader software-delivery meetup spanning front-end, back-end, UX, QA, and product. Organized with help from the Bitovi consultancy; talks are hosted downtown at the Aon Center.
free
Organizers: Bitovi
Monthly · in-person · Chicago
Google Developer Group covering Android, Google Cloud, web, and AI tooling, with a companion GDG Cloud Chicago chapter running cloud-focused meetups and hands-on study jams. Beginner-friendly format.
free
CocoaHeads 2nd Tue, NSCoder last Tue (monthly) · in-person · Chicago
Chicago's Apple-platform developer community, splitting the month between formal CocoaHeads talks and informal NSCoder lightning-talk nights at local company offices. Open to designers, testers, and anyone building iOS/Mac apps.
free
Several times a year · in-person · Chicago
Local OWASP chapter focused on application security, running its 'AppSec & Craft Beer' talk nights at Chicagoland breweries in partnership with the regional cybersecurity community. Vendor-neutral, community-driven content.
free
Last Thursday monthly · hybrid · Chicago
The Chicago PyData chapter, a monthly hybrid meetup on Python (and R, Julia, etc.) for data analysis and machine learning. Talks are recorded and posted to the PyData YouTube channel.
free
Monthly (10+ events/yr) · in-person · Chicago
Chicago chapter of the global Startup Grind founder community, hosting monthly fireside chats with local founders and investors plus pitch nights and vertical showcases (food-tech, edtech). Geared toward founders and people moving into startups.
varies
Periodic (several per year) · in-person · Chicago
Chicago arm of the national Tech in Motion series (run by Motion Recruitment), hosting free curated panels, demos, and mixers for developers, designers, and product people. Recent themes center on AI in the product lifecycle.
free
Organizers: Motion Recruitment
Jul 20, 2026 · in-person · Chicago
A citywide tech-ecosystem week (July 20-26, 2026) powered by the P33 nonprofit, stringing together dozens of partner events across startups, AI, quantum, and advanced computing, anchored by the P33 summit and 1871 programming.
varies
Organizers: P33
Sep 10, 2026 · hybrid · Chicago
The premier U.S. Elixir and Phoenix conference, whose 2026 edition (Sept 10-11) is hosted in Chicago and online. Sessions cover production Elixir, LiveView/Phoenix, performance, and AI agents.
paid
Annual, spring · in-person · Irish American Heritage Center, 4626 N Knox Ave, Chicago
A one-day, non-profit Security BSides hacker/infosec conference for Chicago, held in spring at the Irish American Heritage Center. Stepped in as the city's 2026 BSides while the older BSidesChicago took a year off.
paid
Annual, early February · in-person · Hermann Hall, IIT, 3241 S Federal St, Chicago
The AWS Chicago User Group's annual full-day winter cloud conference, held at IIT's Hermann Hall. A community-run alternative to vendor conferences, with multiple speaker tracks on AWS and cloud engineering.
paid
Organizers: AWS Chicago User Group
Biennial, late May · in-person · Irish American Heritage Center, Chicago
Chicago's long-running, low-key hacking conference (THOTCON 0xD ran May 2025). Now appears to operate on a roughly biennial cadence; the next edition (0xE) is expected around 2027, so the near-term date is unconfirmed.
paid
may be inactive — last met May 31, 2025
Last verified 2026-06-11.
founded 2017 · 20-50 people · Chicago, IL
Health-tech company whose Sepsis ImmunoScore was the first FDA-authorized AI diagnostic for sepsis (De Novo, 2024); building a precision-medicine data platform for critical care. Combines a clinical dataset with ML; based in Chicago.
Latest round: $20M Series A (Jan 2026) · led by PACE Healthcare Capital, Labcorp Venture Fund · $40M total raised
Founders: Bobby Reddy
founded 2023 · 20-50 people · Chicago, IL
Building a CFTC-regulated, direct-access exchange and clearinghouse for electricity (power) derivatives to support clean-energy investment. Granted DCM and DCO status by the CFTC; a markets-infrastructure engineering team with offices in Chicago and New York.
Latest round: $30M Series A (Nov 2025) · led by DCVC, XTX Markets, Five Rings · $55M total raised
founded 2019 · 50-100 people · Chicago, IL
Builds foundation-model infrastructure for medical imaging so health systems and developers can train and deploy imaging AI across modalities. Led by radiologist-founder Khan Siddiqui; an AI/ML and compliance-engineering team based in Chicago.
Latest round: $31.5M Series A (Jun 2025) · led by Kivu, Greycroft, Health2047
Founders: Khan Siddiqui
founded 2024 · 20-50 people · Chicago, IL
Invite-only load board and software marketplace focused specifically on Mexico–U.S. cross-border trucking, vetting carriers and connecting them with brokers. Founded by freight veterans; headquartered at 2045 W Grand Ave in Chicago.
Latest round: $12M Series A (Apr 2025) · led by LGVP, Conversion Capital, Primary Venture Partners · $22M total raised
Founders: Matt Silver, Rylan Hawkins
founded 2020 · 20-50 people · Chicago, IL
AI-assisted platform for building and delivering professional certification exams online, cutting the cost and time of standing up new credentials. Backed by Chicago's Hyde Park Venture Partners; a small software team in the city.
Latest round: $11M Series A (Mar 2025) · led by Cherryrock Capital, Hyde Park Venture Partners, Chingona Ventures
Founders: Ruben Garcia
founded 2020 · 100-150 people · Chicago, IL
Deploys factory-floor automation to U.S. manufacturers on a pay-by-the-hour robotics-as-a-service model, handling installation, monitoring, and maintenance. Combines hardware integration with fleet software; headquartered in Chicago.
Latest round: $27.4M Series A (Jun 2024) · led by Blackhorn Ventures, Lux Capital · $59.1M total raised
Founders: Saman Farid
founded 2017 · 200-300 people · Chicago, IL
B2B infrastructure provider that lets banks and fintechs embed crypto, stablecoin, and tokenization features via API. A 2025 $104M round led by Interactive Brokers pushed it to unicorn status; headquartered in the Fulton/West Town area of Chicago.
Latest round: $104M Series D (Sep 2025) · led by Interactive Brokers, Morgan Stanley, SoFi, +1 more · $275M total raised
Founders: Edward Woodford
founded 2016 · 500-1000 people · Chicago, IL
Direct-to-consumer home insurer that uses property data and risk modeling to price coverage in disaster-exposed markets like Florida. Raised a $50M Series E at a $2B valuation in 2025 and reports profitability since 2023; a data- and software-heavy org headquartered in Chicago.
Latest round: $50M Series E (Sep 2025) · led by QED Investors, Activate Capital · $286M total raised
Founders: Sean Harper, Lucas Ward
founded 2010 · 100-200 people · Chicago, IL
Turnkey asset-management platform for registered investment advisors, bundling model-portfolio access with mid- and back-office technology. Took strategic Series C investment from Apollo (2025) and Goldman Sachs (2026); a fintech engineering org headquartered in Chicago.
Latest round: $38M Series C (Aug 2025) · led by Apollo Global Management, BlackRock, J.P. Morgan Asset Management · $80.5M total raised
founded 2016 · 300-400 people · Chicago, IL
Software that helps IT teams and managed-service providers deploy and manage Azure Virtual Desktop, Windows 365, and Microsoft 365 at scale. A $500M 2025 Series C made it a unicorn; crossed $100M ARR; headquartered in Chicago.
Latest round: $500M Series C (Mar 2025) · led by General Atlantic, Lead Edge Capital, StepStone
Founders: Vadim Vladimirskiy
founded 2016 · 150-200 people · Chicago, IL
Builds a data-analytics warehouse engineered for compute-intensive analysis of very large datasets, targeting telecom, ad-tech, and government workloads. Founded by Cleversafe's Chris Gladwin; the engineering team works out of the Loop (20 N Wacker).
Latest round: $42.1M Series B (Sep 2024) · led by Allstate Strategic Ventures, Blue Bear Capital, Northwestern Mutual · $132M total raised
Founders: Chris Gladwin
founded 2015 · 200-400 people · Chicago, IL
Sells an internet-connected countertop steam oven paired with a weekly meal-delivery subscription; scanning a meal's code runs the cook program automatically. A hardware-plus-app-plus-logistics business with its product and software teams in Chicago.
Latest round: $30M Series C (Feb 2021) · led by Left Lane Capital · $68.6M total raised
Founders: David Rabie
founded 2017 · 200-400 people · Chicago, IL
Marketplace where fans buy personalized video shout-outs from celebrities and creators. Smaller and lower-valued than at its 2021 peak but still operating, with a Chicago HQ opened in 2024 and a return-to-office product/engineering core.
Latest round: $28M Venture (Mar 2024) · led by Valor Equity Partners
Founders: Steven Galanis
founded 2011 · 200-300 people · Chicago, IL
Provides carriers a cloud claims-management and virtual-appraisal platform that digitizes the process from first notice of loss through payment. Serves 100+ insurance clients; a Chicago-based insurtech engineering org.
Latest round: $30M Series E2 (Jul 2023) · led by Ping An Global Voyager Fund, Pivot Investment Partners · $107M total raised
Founders: Brad Weisberg
founded 2016 · 300-500 people · Chicago, IL
B2B marketplace connecting bars, restaurants, and retailers with alcohol distributors for ordering, payments, and merchandising; reports over $5B in cumulative GMV. The engineering org is in Chicago.
Latest round: $75M Series C (Sep 2021) · led by Tiger Global · $140M total raised
Founders: Taylor Katzman
founded 2015 · 300-500 people · Chicago, IL
Consumer 'finance super app' combining automated investing, borrowing, and banking; surpassed $12B in assets under management in 2025. Engineering, product, and design are based in Chicago.
Latest round: $150M Series E (Jul 2021) · led by SoftBank Vision Fund 2 · $333M total raised
Founders: Brian Barnes
founded 2012 · 1000-1500 people · Chicago, IL
Operates the largest peer-review marketplace for business software, where buyers compare products via user reviews. Acquired Gartner's Capterra, Software Advice, and GetApp in early 2026. Engineering and data science are centered at the Chicago HQ.
Latest round: $157M Series D (Jun 2021) · led by IVP · $265M total raised
Founders: Godard Abel, Tim Handorf
founded 2003 · 800-1000 people · Chicago, IL
Marketing-automation and CRM platform aimed at small and mid-size businesses, increasingly built around AI-driven campaign tooling. Headquartered at 1 N Dearborn with engineering split between Chicago and international offices.
Founders: Jason VandeBoom
founded 2013 · 50-100 people · Chicago, IL
Data-science software and consultancy spun out of the Obama 2012 analytics team, offering a platform for identity resolution, modeling, and audience analytics used by government, nonprofits, and brands. Achieved FedRAMP Moderate authorization in 2025; headquartered in the Loop.
Latest round: $77.8M total raised
Founders: Dan Wagner
founded 2009 · 300-500 people · Chicago, IL
Zero-knowledge cybersecurity company selling password, secrets, and privileged-access management to consumers and enterprises; surpassed four million paid users in 2025. Headquartered in Chicago with product development distributed across U.S. and international offices.
Founders: Darren Guccione, Craig Lurey
founded 2014 · 700-800 people · Chicago, IL
Cloud platform giving shippers and logistics providers real-time, multi-modal visibility into freight in transit, now layered with an AI-driven transportation management system. One of Chicago's largest venture-scale software companies, with a sizable in-town engineering and data org.
Latest round: $912M total raised
Founders: Jett McCandless
founded 2001 · 1000+ people · Chicago, IL
Maker of RelativityOne, the e-discovery and legal-data-intelligence platform used by law firms, corporations, and government to review large document sets. Originally kCura; a long-standing Chicago software employer with a deep engineering bench.
Founders: Andrew Sieja
founded 2014 · 1000+ people · Chicago, IL
Outsourced fulfillment network for small and mid-size online retailers, pairing a distributed warehouse footprint with software that handles inventory, order routing, and shipping. The product/engineering org sits at the West Loop HQ; warehouses are nationwide.
Founders: Dhruv Saxena, Divey Gulati
founded 2010 · 1000-1500 people · Chicago, IL
Social-media management and analytics platform for brands, covering publishing, engagement, customer care, and AI-driven insights. Headquartered in the Loop and public on Nasdaq (SPT); one of the anchor SaaS engineering shops in the city.
Founders: Justyn Howard
founded 2015 · 2000+ people · Chicago, IL
Health-tech company that sequences tumors and builds AI models on clinical and molecular data to support oncology, cardiology, and radiology decisions. Founded by Groupon's Eric Lefkofsky, headquartered in River North, and public on Nasdaq (TEM); a major Chicago employer of data and ML engineers.
Founders: Eric Lefkofsky
founded 2017 · 300-500 people · Chicago, IL
Self-directed brokerage and trading platform for options, futures, and stocks, built by the creators of thinkorswim and paired with the tastylive financial-media studios. Acquired by IG Group in 2021 for $1B; the platform-engineering team remains in Chicago's Fulton Market.
Founders: Tom Sosnoff, Kristi Ross
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