Commission Bioinformatics Software Engineer Jobs in Chicago, IL

Company Description

Welcome to Our World We've been leading the charge in the affiliate industry from day one-establishing performance marketing and paving the way for future innovations. We're known for maintaining one of the largest, most reliable partnership platforms with impeccable, personalized service.  Founded in Santa Barbara, California in 1998, CJ (formerly Commission Junction) stands as the most trusted name in performance marketing. We specialize in building partnerships between top brands and reputable publishers to drive revenue and business growth. CJ's industry-leading solutions make us the platform of choice for over 3,800 global brands across sectors like retail, travel, finance, technology, and home services. As part of Publicis Groupe, our savvy data capabilities, cutting-edge tech, and strategic expertise facilitate genuine connections, allowing brands to reach consumers wherever they are.  A Quick Peek at Affiliate Marketing Think back to your last online purchase. Did an influencer tip you off about a great product and offer a discount? Or perhaps you relied on a trusted review site to make your decision? Whatever path you took, affiliate publishers likely played a role by influencing, informing, or helping you find the best deal. CJ connects brands with these publishers, creating valuable resources for shoppers like you. 

Overview

You must be work authorized in the United States without the need for employer sponsorship. 

This is a hybrid role requiring 3 days a week in a CJ office location (www.cj.com)

About CJ Engineering 

Are we a good match for you? 

At CJ, we are passionate about software engineering. We build exciting software, with quality and maintainability in mind. We believe in common sense, simplicity, and efficiency. We practice critical thinking, challenge each other no matter the title, and believe in the wisdom of the team. 

That makes us Engineers and not just developers. Here are some of the principles that set CJ engineers apart.  

• Engineering autonomy: Here, business decisions are made by business people, and technical decisions are made by technical people. 

• Full stack: Expect to be involved and to gain competence in every aspect of software engineering, from frontend, to database, to requirements analysis, to testing, to helping choose technologies. 

• Clean, Maintainable code: Code is read more often than it is written, so we put in the effort to write it well in the first place. 

• Pairing: The highest quality code is produced by close collaboration, so we pair by default. 

• TDD: Quality is baked into our process through Test Driven Development 

• Ownership: Engineers own the full lifecycle of what they build-from design and implementation to deployment, monitoring, production support, and on-call rotations. If we build it, we support it. 

• Operational Excellence: We embrace Infrastructure as Code, CI/CD, automation, and observability to build reliable systems and deliver software safely, efficiently, and at scale. 

• We believe in Agile values, and incremental development. We constantly experiment, retrospect, and adjust. 

• We are committed to finding out how AI can amplify our productivity. We view AI as a force multiplier, not a replacement for good engineering. 

If this sounds exciting, we want to hear from you! 

As a Software Engineer 3 focused on security within Engineering Experience (EngExp), you help drive the team's evolution from DevOps to DevSecOps. You work with engineering teams across the org to find, prioritize, and close out vulnerabilities in CJ's code and infrastructure, and you help serve as a technical bridge between engineering and the Global Security Office (GSO), auditors, and clients on security topics. You turn raw findings (Wiz, Veracode, pentest reports) into evidence-backed, actionable guidance. This is a hands-on role: you read and write code, and when you have the context to fix a vulnerability yourself, you do - not just file a ticket and hand it off. 

Responsibilities

What You'll Do:

Triage and respond to vulnerabilities identified through tools such as Wiz, Veracode, and penetration tests, and help drive them to resolution 

• Analyze infrastructure and codebases to produce evidence-backed answers about real risk - exploitability, reachability, and impact - rather than relaying scanner severity alone 
• Help operate the vulnerability queue end to end: intake, prioritization, tracking, and validation of fixes 
• Partner with engineers to articulate the actual threat (or lack of one) behind a code or infrastructure finding 
• Remediate findings directly when you have the context - whether in EngExp's own infrastructure or another team's - and drive remediation through partnership where you don't 
• Integrate security checks (SAST/DAST) into GitLab CI/CD pipelines so issues are caught at build and merge-request time, not only in point-in-time scans 
• Contribute to security standards and best practices, and coach teams through adopting them 
• Help verify AI-proposed fixes and risk assessments against the actual code, config, and runtime context before they're accepted 

Technologies We Use: 

• Application security tools: Veracode, Wiz 
• SAST/DAST tooling embedded in CI/CD 
• Vulnerability management and ticketing systems (Jira or equivalent) 
• Cloud environments: AWS, Kubernetes 
• Infrastructure as Code: Terraform and Kubernetes manifests 
• CI/CD pipelines and developer platforms (GitLab CI/CD, ArgoCD) 
• Programming languages: comfortable reading and fixing code in at least one of Python, Go, or the JVM languages (Java, Scala, Kotlin) - CJ's codebases span all of these

Qualifications

What we look for: 

• 3+ years of software or infrastructure engineering experience, with hands-on exposure to application or infrastructure security 
• Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience 
• Can read code and infrastructure config, not just interpret scanner output 
• Understands common vulnerability classes and how to reason about exploitability and impact 
• Enough AWS/Kubernetes fluency to have credible technical conversations with the teams that operate them 
• Comfortable translating technical findings for non-security stakeholders and driving fixes through influence rather than authority 

Nice to Have: 

• Experience wiring automated security scanning into CI/CD pipelines 
• Familiarity with threat modeling and secure-by-design review 
• Interest in emerging threats, including AI systems, and willingness to learn fast 

What Success Looks Like: 

• • Engineering teams understand why a finding matters (or doesn't) instead of closing tickets to clear a queue 
  • Audits and client security reviews go smoothly because evidence and answers are ready, not scrambled together 
  • Security becomes a normal part of how teams build, not a gate bolted on at the end 

Additional Information

This is a hybrid role requiring 3 days a week in office.CJ is the leader in Performance Marketing. We take pride in our innovative technology, comprehensive data solutions and our people. We equip our teams with advanced tools, training and career development opportunities all to provide modern solutions, strategies and support to deliver high quality results for our clients. We work in an enthusiastic, collaborative team setting that values outstanding performance.

We're a community of creative and passionate problem solvers who go the distance to tackle the tough questions, think creatively, and drive resourceful growth, for our clients-and ourselves. We foster and embody an inclusive and collaborative culture where diverse perspectives are sought, relationships are valued, and people feel accepted with a sense of belonging in expressing themselves authentically. We pride ourselves in having a workplace environment that values both work and play.

Why Our Workplace Stands Out Apart from offering competitive salaries, 401K matching, wellness programs, and comprehensive medical, dental, and vision coverage, we provide: Flexible time off without the hassle of accrual A generous number of paid holidays Company-sponsored team-building events An Employee Referral Program Annual recognition awards Hybrid work arrangements for optimal work-life balance Parental bonding leave Backup care options for children and elders An employee discount program International SOS program for global support Business Resource Groups, where employees connect over shared interests to cultivate an engaging, inclusive environment

...and those are just a few of our great perks! Come join us and see what makes our company a great place to work.

If you require accommodation or assistance with the application or onboarding process specifically, please contact USMSTACompliance@publicis.com.

All your information will be kept confidential according to EEO guidelines. #LI-DT1

 Compensation Range: USD $88,540.00 - USD $135,632.00/Annually. This is the pay range the Company believes it will pay for this position at the time of this posting. Consistent with applicable law, compensation will be determined based on the skills, qualifications, and experience of the applicant along with the requirements of the position, and the Company reserves the right to modify this pay range at any time. Temporary roles may be eligible to participate in our freelancer/temporary employee medical plan through a third-party benefits administration system once certain criteria have been met. Temporary roles may also qualify for participation in our 401(k) plan after eligibility criteria have been met. For regular roles, the Company will offer medical coverage, dental, vision, disability, 401k, and paid time off. The Company anticipates the application deadline for this job posting will be 9/27/2026.Employment Type: FULL_TIME