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Clear StreetClear StreetNew York, NY

Senior Software Engineer - Platform Engineer

Build internal developer platforms, reusable services, and automation that improve software delivery, infrastructure self-service, reliability, and developer productivity. The role requires 5+ years of platform, software, infrastructure, DevOps, or SRE experience plus expertise in cloud-native technologies, Kubernetes, CI/CD, and Infrastructure as Code.

150k – 200k/yr
Hybrid5+ YOEDevOps / SRE

About the role

Responsibilities

  • Build self-service developer platforms for infrastructure provisioning, application deployment, secrets management, and shared services.
  • Create reusable platform services and SDKs for identity and authorization, secrets management, deployment orchestration, service discovery, configuration management, and platform APIs.
  • Design opinionated golden paths for building, testing, deploying, and operating software.
  • Build CI/CD platforms with automated testing, security, and compliance.
  • Improve local development environments, build systems, ephemeral environments, and developer workflows.
  • Measure and improve developer productivity through platform metrics and engineering insights.
  • Collaborate with application teams to simplify software delivery, improve reliability, and reduce operational toil.
  • Build capabilities that improve scalability, resiliency, observability, and operational excellence.
  • Champion Infrastructure as Code, GitOps, and platform engineering practices.
  • Explore emerging technologies, AI-assisted development, and developer tooling.

Requirements

  • 5+ years of experience in Platform Engineering, Software Engineering, Infrastructure Engineering, DevOps, or Site Reliability Engineering.
  • Strong software engineering fundamentals and production software development experience 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 CI/CD platforms and software delivery pipelines.
  • Experience with Infrastructure as Code using Terraform or comparable technologies.
  • Product mindset focused on usability, adoption, documentation, and developer experience.
  • Strong communication and collaboration skills.
  • Interest in emerging technologies, platform engineering, and AI-powered developer tooling.

Technology

  • Kubernetes
  • AWS
  • Terraform
  • ArgoCD
  • GitHub Actions
  • Helm
  • Kafka
  • Temporal
  • PostgreSQL
  • Snowflake
  • Datadog
  • Go, Java, and Python
  • gRPC and Protobuf
  • Tilt
  • Internal platform APIs and developer tooling

Compensation and Benefits

  • Base salary: $150,000–$200,000.
  • Company equity.
  • 401(k) matching.
  • Gender-neutral parental leave.
  • Medical, dental, and vision insurance.
  • Lunch stipends, stocked kitchens, and happy hours.
  • Employees are expected to work in the office 4 days per week.

Skills

GoPythonJavaKubernetesLinuxAWSTerraformArgo CDGitHub ActionsHelmKafkaTemporalPostgresDatadoggRPC

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