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About 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. You will create self-service capabilities, intelligent automation, and reusable platform services that eliminate operational complexity and allow engineers to focus on building products.
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.
Requirements
- 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.
Skills
- Go
- Python
- Java
- Kubernetes
- Linux
- Containers
- Distributed systems
- GitHub Actions
- GitLab CI
- ArgoCD
- Jenkins
- Terraform
- Infrastructure as Code
- GitOps
- Cloud-native technologies
- gRPC
- Protobuf
- Helm
- Kafka
- Temporal
- PostgreSQL
- Snowflake
- Datadog
- Tilt
Location
- New York, NY
Work Type
- Hybrid
Experience Level
- 5+ years
Salary/Compensations
- $150,000 - $200,000
Benefits
- Company equity
- 401k matching
- Gender neutral parental leave
- Full medical, dental and vision insurance
- Lunch stipends
- Fully stocked kitchens
- Happy hours
About the Company
- 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.
Equal Opportunity
- We put in the effort to make such a workplace a daily reality and are proud to be an equal opportunity employer.