Senior Software Engineer - Platform Engineer

📋 Job Overview

Clear Street’s mission is to give every sophisticated investor access to every asset, in every market, through a unified platform built for speed, transparency and scale. We give our clients the technology, tools, and service once reserved for the largest institutions, rebuilt with modern infrastructure. Our single, cloud-native, end-to-end capital markets platform powers investor growth today and is transforming how they can interact with markets tomorrow.

🏢 About Clear Street

Clear Street’s mission is to give every sophisticated investor access to every asset, in every market, through a unified platform built for speed, transparency and scale. We give our clients the technology, tools, and service once reserved for the largest institutions, rebuilt with modern infrastructure. Our single, cloud-native, end-to-end capital markets platform powers investor growth today and is transforming how they can interact with markets tomorrow.

🎯 The Role

As a Platform Engineer, your customers are our engineers. You'll build the internal platform that enables product teams to ship software faster, safer, and with greater confidence. Rather than simply managing infrastructure, you'll create self-service capabilities, intelligent automation, and reusable platform services that eliminate operational complexity and allow engineers to focus on building products. You will partner closely with software engineers to understand friction in the development lifecycle and turn those pain points into scalable platform capabilities.

✅ Key Responsibilities

• Build self-service developer platforms that enable engineers to provision infrastructure, deploy applications, manage secrets, and access shared services with minimal operational overhead.
• Create reusable platform services and SDKs including identity & authorization, secrets management, deployment orchestration, service discovery, configuration management, and platform APIs.
• Design opinionated \"golden paths\" that make the easiest way also the best way for engineers to build, test, deploy, and operate software.
• Build intelligent CI/CD platforms that reduce deployment time, improve release confidence, and automate testing, security, and compliance.
• Improve developer workflows by investing in local development environments, faster build systems, ephemeral environments, and platform automation.
• Continuously measure and improve developer productivity through platform metrics, engineering insights, and workflow optimization.
• Collaborate with application teams to simplify software delivery, improve reliability, and remove operational toil through automation.
• Build platform capabilities that improve scalability, resiliency, observability, and operational excellence across the engineering organization.
• Champion Infrastructure as Code, GitOps, and platform engineering best practices while helping teams adopt modern engineering workflows.
• Experiment with emerging technologies, AI-assisted development, and developer tooling that transforms how engineers build software.

📌 Required Qualifications

• 5+ years of experience in Platform Engineering, Software Engineering, Infrastructure Engineering, DevOps, or Site Reliability Engineering.
• Strong software engineering fundamentals with experience building production-quality software in Go, Python, Java, or similar languages.
• Experience designing developer platforms, internal tooling, automation frameworks, or shared engineering services.
• Deep understanding of cloud-native technologies, Kubernetes, Linux, containers, and distributed systems.
• Experience building modern CI/CD platforms and software delivery pipelines using tools such as GitHub Actions, GitLab CI, ArgoCD, Jenkins, or similar technologies.
• Experience with Infrastructure as Code using Terraform or comparable technologies.
• A product mindset—you think about usability, adoption, documentation, and developer experience when building internal platforms.
• Passion for automation and eliminating repetitive manual work.
• Strong communication skills and the ability to partner with engineering teams to understand problems and deliver scalable solutions.
• Curiosity to continuously explore emerging technologies, platform engineering practices, and AI-powered developer tooling.

⭐ Desirable Experience

None specified.

🎁 Benefits

Base Salary Range is $150,000 - $200,000. These ranges are representative of the starting base salaries for this role at Clear Street. Which range a candidate fits into and where a candidate falls in the range will be based on job related factors such as relevant experience, skills, and location. These ranges represent Base Salary only, which is just one element of Clear Street's total compensation. The ranges stated do not include other factors of total compensation such as bonuses or equity.

At Clear Street, we offer competitive compensation packages, company equity, 401k matching, gender neutral parental leave, and full medical, dental and vision insurance. Our belief has always been that we are better as a business when we are all together in person. We are requiring employees to be in the office 4 days per week. In-office benefits include lunch stipends, fully stocked kitchens, happy hours, a great location, and amazing views.

🛂 Visa & Eligibility

None specified.